Pantone huey Pro MEU113 :: Education by Design Store

Customer Reviews

Works fine

2008-11-01
This monitor calibrator works just fine on my 24" iMac. It's very easy to set up and use. I noticed very little change in the colors of my photos on the monitor after I calibrated the monitor, but I guess with the quality of the monitor, that it was pretty well adjusted to begin with.

Good Product

2008-10-28
I did a lot of research before buying a color calibration device. All of them had quite a lot of negative reviews, including the Huey Pro, but I bit the bullet and went with it instead of more expensive devices. I am glad I did. The colors have been spot on and the calibration is easy and takes a small amount of time. Well worth it for the peace of mind that comes from knowing your colors are accurate. My monitor is a 19" flatscreen CRT.

Pantone Huey Pro does what it says, and with ease...

2008-10-15
Although I'd read a number of negative reviews about the Huey Pro before purchasing, I bought on the strength of the Pantone reputation and a good experience with an earlier calibration device, the Eye-one Display LT. I'm using it on a CRT on a Windows XP Pro platform. It installed with no problem and is functioning as expected. The calibration process couldn't be easier and I especially like the ambient light adjustment feature.

Totally Pleased!!!!!

2008-10-07
We just recvd our HueyPro today and installed immediately. In a word: "WOW". I am a graphic designer and had some issues with monitor calibration using the MAC OS monitor calibration application in the past, but I can tell, NO MORE! Our 2 year old Dell UltraSharp LCD monitor shifted after the HueyPro calibration. (The desktop got darker, but photos were lighter? How does that happen?) We opened a couple images we had problems with in the past. And those images came out perfect as the printer's output. Really amazing tool.
I had less success with a very old CRT that just lost it's color vibrancy. Obviously time for a new monitor on that MAC! Thanks Pantone!

Very nice... minor problem for mac

2008-09-30
I am a graphic designer and need my monitor to be as well calibrated as possible. I loved the outcome! It looks just like my prints. Easy to install, easy to use. The following comment is mostly for designers that need a very accurate calibration: Minor software problem calibrating the monitor on my iMac. The thing is, to get the best result you need a contrast slider... which you don't have in Mac. You only have the brightness slider. If someone knows a way around this, let us know. Buy it! No way you get this calibration without a calibrating tool like this.

AVOID!!!

2008-08-25
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.

Pantone is fixing the issue of color cast now

2008-08-14
I bought Pantone Huey Pro back to April this year. It worked good before it suddenly had a color cast from two weeks ago. I searched web and found that it happened to a lot of users. Pantone has been aware of this bug and trying to fix. I used their online system to report this issue one week ago and got a reply today. They offer me an eyeone display2 as a replacement. Will see if this one can solve the issue.

Pretty straight forward set up.. just waiting for more prints

2008-08-14
The setup on this product was very simple. I did not see a huge difference in the "corrected" profile it created for my vista machine. I did have 5 prints made from a pro lab and the shots came back looking extremely close to my monitor.

overall I would recommentd this product, especially for the price paid.

BEWARE!

2008-07-17
I purchased this item, when it came in I hooked it up and started to calibrate. I immediately noticed the colors did not seem right. After a week of messing up pictures I called into Pantone tech support and discovered this product has a hardware bug that causes a green color cast on some monitors. I have a Samsung Syncmaster 2253bw and it is one of them. As of this writing they say it "might" be fixed within a month but can't guarantee it. I have been out time and money and looks like a have to get another calibration system - I just wanted to let people know before they end up like my situation.

Good, Inexpensive Calibration (While It Worked)

2008-07-01
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.

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