Pantone huey Pro MEU113

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• Each package includes the hueyPRO emission-only colorimeter and easy-to use software
• Achieve color fidelity between all displays on your system with multiple monitor calibration
• User-defined white point and gamma combinations provide substantial control over the calibration and output matching
• Windows: PC with 300MHz; Windows 2000, XP, Vista
• Macintosh: Power Mac G3 or higher, 300 MHz;

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About This Product

Its all about the color. Color in your photos color in your designs color online and more importantly color on your display. Whether you are editing photos to print sell or share with others working on a design and need to communicate that spot or process color to production or shopping online for the right color outfit you deserve to see the right color on your display. Professional photographers and designers understand that to obtain the true color from capture to edit to print; a color-managed work-flow is essential and a calibrated monitor is the first step. The new PANTONE huey PRO delivers professional-level controls in an affordable easy-to-use solution. hueyPRO allows you to trust the colors you see on the screen.

Customer Reviews

• huey pro review

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• Review: I ordered this product and received it very promptly (3 days). It installed on Windows 7 without any glitches and worked as I expected. Although it doesn't offer as many color patches as some of the pricier units it did a very good job calibrating my lcd monitor.The calibration is very close to the Pantone swatches and I am using it to color correct commercial photos.

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• Great Product and Excellent Customer Support

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• Review: After reading some of the negative reviews about the company... I thought I would offer my experience as of Aug 2010. I originally received the standard Pantone Heuy as a gift. I ended up getting poor results.. a blue tint to everything. I searched the web for a solution and then contacted Pantone. They told me that some versions of the hardware had issues. They did not say if the problems were compatibility issues or just a bad batch in manufacturing. They responded to my e-mails in 24 hours and I received the replacement in less than 3 days. So does receiving a bad item deserve a DING or a PRAISE?
  
  I say A+ customer service. They stood behind their product! They did not make me jump through hoops. They were very responsive.
  
  OK... as for the product.... I am using Windows 7 64-Bit with a dual Screen LCD setup. The calibration process was unbelievably easy for both monitors (2-3 minutes). I use to borrow an Eye-One in the past and the Eye One process was much more difficult (adjusting R G B on the monitor menu, each adjustment affecting the other) and time consuming (about 20 min) and the results look the same to me. Also it was only able to do one monitor and did not adjust to ambient light.
  
  The Heuy Pro: price is better.... the process is easier and the results seem to be the same.
  
  The before and after results are obvious but subtle... they are more significant when printing.

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• No problem here

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• Review: I bought a Huey a few months ago, then upgraded to the pro version the other day.
  
  I am mystified as to why so many users report terrible results. In my case, the software installed without a hitch, and the calibration is spot-on.
  
  I don't use the room light compensation feature. I want consistency.
  
  I also don't use the periodic recalibration feature. Hey, it's a 24" P-MVA monitor; it doesn't drift very much, if at all.
  
  The Huey (not HueyPro) software was a bit oversimplistic. At the end of the calibration process, it offered numerous options such as "games" or "photo editing." It reminds me of mp3 players where you can choose different equalization settings such as "jazz" or "vocals." Please, just render an accurate (flat) result, okay? Turns out the "photo" setting is D65, G2.2, or what you want all the time anyway.
  
  Happy camper here.

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• Windows 7 Crashes: This Might Help

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• Review: This review is about the HueyPro MEU113, shipped from an Amazon Merchant.
  
  When I first received the product and installed it, as the instructions said, it crashed. I called tech support and they had no advice, except to try it on another PC. I found out, later, that my Windows 7 User Profile was corrupted, and there was no documented way to fix it besides creating a fresh user profile.
  
  Remarkably that worked for me, and I was able to calibrate my monitor after booting to the new user profile.
  
  I noticed, however, that I was getting a green tint on my monitor, after calibration. That, and I was unable to follow the instructions on getting the white and black rings to appear as one (the brightness/contrast issue that a lot of people have). I have an el-cheapo monitor, which may be of lesser quality. So instead of returning the device, I simply turned down the green on my monitor and recalibrated. That seemed to do the trick.
  
  Also, I noticed that from certain angles, the color tint is different, and my monitor doesn't really hold the tint very well. So even after you've calibrated, you can run into a situation where your monitor is not tilted at the right angle, or needs to be recalibrated, and it will definitely show a tint on LCD monitors of lesser quality.
  
  So that sort of might explain why some people are getting a bad tint, and to adjust your monitor if you do, because you *can* get good color after you adjust it some. But I can understand, too, how some units just might be defective.
  
  I'm giving it 4 stars because it's good that it actually works "well enough" to get to this level of color calibration. However, I'd recommend something more pricey for professionals who need "great" calibration.

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• Night and day

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• Review: If you've noticed that your photographic prints don't look like they do on your monitor, then it's time for a colorimeter. Virtually every monitor--including high-quality monitors that you might find on a Mac--come out of the box with exaggerated colors. You can't really blame the manufacturer: if you see vibrant colors on a monitor, you're more likely to buy it. On top of that, there is some variation between individual units and in the way your computer drives them. If you're editing a photograph, your colors will be off because your monitor is off.
  
  Enter colorimeters like the Huey. In a very simple procedure, the Huey sticks to your monitor with tiny suction cups. A software program sends colors to your monitor that the Huey reads and compares to what the colors should be. A small file is generated which your computer uses to compensate the monitor. The result is colors that are much closer to what's really in your images.
  
  I work with a multiple-monitor system, with monitors from different manufacturers (currently Samsung and HP). The Huey calibrates these very different monitors so that images look virtually identical when moved between them. That's a pretty good test of color calibration. I can't honestly say how the Huey stacks up with other units. At some point I'll need to move to a colorimeter that can also calibrate a printer. I do know that ANY colorimeter is better than none. Even an inexpensive unit like this Pantone Huey makes a huge difference. Whether printed on my own Epson pigment printer or by a commercial service, my prints now look like what I see on my monitor.
  
  There's one thing you should know as soon as you're nicely calibrated. Many print services--Shutterfly, for example--automatically add saturation to images you send them. This is based on the assumption that your monitor isn't calibrated. You can turn this feature off when you use the service and it's a very good idea to do so.

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