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Pantone Huey Pro Monitor Color Calibrator

Huey Pro Monitor Color Calibrator

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Pantone Huey Pro Monitor Color Calibrator

  • Reviewed by: kgivens

    04-09-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Does help when trying to match onscreen appearance to printed photo output

    Weaknesses:May make you unhappy with the appearance of the screen when running non-photographic applications

    Overall Evaluation: The Huey made quick work of calibrating my LCD monitor. Afterwards the screen was noticeably darker, which actually did improve the fidelity when printing, but I found I missed the brighter, more contrasty settings when playing games or even doing word processing. Unless you are printing constantly and/or professionally, this is the sort of product you may use once, and then wonder when you'll ever use it again. Helps to have printer-specific color profiles loaded in Photoshop also.

  • Reviewed by: geo442

    03-01-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Easy and thorough adjustment, auto-adjustment results are generally excellent.

    Weaknesses:Needing to suction-cup it onto your monitor (which is probably an expensive one if you use this!)

    Overall Evaluation: Although I'm not a professional in any sort of video field, I do a bit of photo an dvideo editing, and have monitors set up in rooms where ambient light conditions can change. I finally brole down and bought this when it was on sale a month or so back, and I am very happy I did.Color calibration is easy, and the results are consistently excellent. This is true even for very different monitor types: for example, it does an admirable job on a Dell 2407FPW (a relatively high-contrast, low-brightness monitor) and a HannsG HG281D (which is the opposite end of the spectrum: contrast is very sub-par but brightness is quite good). Now, the HannsG monitor has known issues with brightness consistency on its screen, and the huey can only "examine" a small portion of the center of the monitor, so there's a real limitation as to how well the huey can correct that monitor (but that's the fauilt of the monitor, NOT the huey). And even with that known monitor's issues, the huey's effects will still reduce the HannsG's apparent problems noticably, which to me is impressive (and makes a large but "cheap" monitor much easier on the eyes than it could be without it).Anybody who spends a lot of time in front of a monitor -- especailly if you're doing visual editing on it or you're in an environment where ambient light changes considerably -- would do well to have the hueyPRO as a component in the computer they're in front of all the time.

  • Reviewed by: ww77f

    02-29-08

    Duration of ownership: 1 Days

    Strengths: Simple set up, works fine, calibration process is pretty quick.

    Weaknesses:The usb cord that's attached to the calibrator is quite thin (1/16") and I worry I might break it off by accident if it caught on something when I moved the calibrator.

    Overall Evaluation: Though I wasn't able during the set up to make the calibration targets to match, the defaults seem to work fine. I'm using an old Sony Multiscan 400PS CRT and and even older Epson Stylus Color 900 (not "Photo"). I made some prints on Canon Matte Photo Paper using the Epson Photorealistic Inkjet Paper setting (that's a matte paper like the Canon) and the prints were very close to the screen image. The slight differences in contrast and saturation I assume have to do with me printing on matte paper which produces a "flatter" print than glossy paper. I haven't tried glossy yet, I like matte. The uncalibrated monitor image looked much different than the prints I had made, so the Huey really helped (no more fiddling with printer settings to get the print to look like the image on my monitor). Oh no! Now I don't have any excuses for my prints. Will

  • Reviewed by: dwah

    02-17-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Easy to use right out of boxWizard helps set up monitor and then runs software calibrationAmbient light adjustment

    Weaknesses:Must attach to monitor with suction cups and still does not make tight light sealAmbient light adjustment sometimes surprises me by changing screen contrast.

    Overall Evaluation: I've only used this for a few days, but I am enjoying the results. The setup program is straightforward enough. Once installed, I ran the program (without first adjusting or cleaning my LCD monitor). The results were a definite improvement. I then properly cleaned the screen and followed the step by step instructions for first adjusting my monitor, and then ran the wizard again. The results were excellent. I had some trouble understanding what gamma and color temperature were best (both easily adjustable in "preferences." However, after reading the on-line documentation (a pdf file), I saw that they recommended 6500K and a gamma of 2.2 for photo editing. I next read how to activate the calibration settings (ICC profiles) in Adobe Photoshop. My print outs were at first a bit warmer than I got on screen, but I found a site on the web for adjusting my Canon MP530 drivers to utilize profiles http://www.steves-digicams.com/techcorner/June_2005.html. The prints now pretty closely match what I'm seeing on-screen. My intent was to get a close match between screen and print, and this is now accomplished. I am happy with the Pantone HueyPro, and it was worth the investment.

  • Reviewed by: jojocat

    02-15-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Quick/simpleImproved photo realism

    Weaknesses:Gray level setting is manual

    Overall Evaluation: This is my first experience with this type of product, and I'm happy with the results. I prefer a "true" color setup on my monitor so that I'm seeing photos/colors on my monitor the way I expect, and this worked very quickly and gave me what seems like a much more accurate color setup than what I had by using the old eyeballing method.

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