Product Description: Huey PRO gives professionals and photo enthusiasts better control over the colors they see. With its multiple-monitor calibration and customizable profiles, you'll produce brilliant life-like colors in the photos you print, sell or share with others. A color-managed workflow is essential to good photographs and graphics, and a calibrated monitor is the first step. HueyPRO allows you to trust the colors you see on the screen.
Good, Inexpensive Calibration (While It Worked) Our Huey Pro worked great for over a year. Then, all of a sudden, calibrations started leaving the screen a vivid pink color. I searched Pantone's support site (search for color cast) and found that they are aware that some units have this problem and are replacing them. You just open a ticket, include your serial number, some system info and your address, and they will send you a new unit. The bad news is that they are out of stock right now and don't expect to have them in stock until the end of July 2008. So we'll have to wait. I know this because I called their support number and after pressing only one number to get to support, an actual person answered the phone (with no hold - I know - shocking, isn't it?) and told me the status in a very frank and honest manner.
So even though ours is currently broken, I still give the product 4 stars because it's much more affordable than any other color calibration system I've seen and (when it was working) it did the job (at least all I needed). And now that we're having a problem, they are going to replace the unit with no hassles regarding warranty periods, etc.
If you are a serious photographer / graphics artist, stay away I've got a brand new Macbook Pro, and a Dell 24" LCD. After calibration, the monitors had a disturbing shade of magenta on them. Tried to find workarounds... spent a lot of time... but no use. Scoured the Internet and found a lot of people have this problem.
It CANNOT deliver on it's number one promise: Accurate Color Calibration. The rest, therefore, doesn't matter. I don't care how good the software is, or how handy the tool is.
Please stay away.
~Jazzwall
Simple. Product works. Ignore low reviews! I purchased the Huey Pro because I came to the realization that my monitor likely wasn't displaying colors properly which is important for an amateur digital photographer such as myself, specifically when tweaking colors in Photoshop. Upon investigation I realized I needed a colorimeter, and the Huey Pro had several appealing advanced features at a good price. I was initially very disappointed with the results from this product because it seemed to turn my laptop screen a pinkish shade, just as most of the poor reviews here and elsewhere online claim it did. However, after a few days I've realized that is just how much off my screen was. Only one other place online did I see someone mention this, but basically after a few days you don't see the reddish tint anymore, but you can see that your colors appear truer and richer. I'm writing this review because I don't want people to be scared of purchasing the Huey Pro because of the multitude of ignorant users that didn't realize that the colorimeter had worked perfectly, and what they were really witnessing was the corrected monitor output, they're eyes just hadn't caught up yet! As for the advanced features such as auto correction with the colorimeter on your desk measuring changing ambient light or the ability to match monitors, I have not yet gotten a chance to try these, but so far the most important feature, fixing my coloring on my screen, the product has worked flawlessly. I rated it only 4 stars because I haven't tried the advanced features yet. Also, the software is incredibly easy and straight forward to use.
Beware... I was looking forward to having (from what I had heard) a very good calibration system. Well, after installing it and running the calibrater it rendered a VERY magenta cast to my calibration. I tried everything to correct for this problem. After a couple wasted hours I came across the FAQ on Pantone's site and come to find out, it is much more common than they would like to admit. I submitted several tech support emails and have yet to hear back from them. I am returning it back to Amazon as defective product and let them deal with it. Don't buy it...spend more money or rely on your own eyes for a much more accurate rendition of color!
good product, I wasn't expecting too much of a change and didn't get much because my color balances were close but it is nice to be sure. Now for getting the printing color to match!. Did find that one of my monitors is not so good. Huey is cheap and does what it advertises easily.
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