Pantone huey MEU101
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Customer Review: Excellent Tool for Serious Photography
Summary: 5 Stars
After attending a Nikon school last year I decided to take the instructor's advice and invest in a color management tool. The Pantone name is synonymous with color and has been a part of my art tools, since I studied color theory in art school over 25 years ago, through the use the Pantone color swatches.
The Huey is so simple to use and made an immense improvement to my display as well as the photos I am printing. The colors are now accurate which means that what I see on my display is what I see in the final print.
The use of the Huey to adjust and correct the display on my ancient iMac has been a great success and a very simple process. The ability to continually monitor the settings and automaticly adjust the display for room lighting is an added bonus.
I reccomend the Huey to anyone who is serious about getting the most out of their photo software and printers. In short it was money well spent.
Customer Review: Great Results, Easy To use - Highly Recommended!
Summary: 5 Stars
The "Pantone huey MEU101" is an easy to use tool for calibrating and adjusting color on computer monitors. We take product photos for my wife's small business and have noticed that the colors we see on the screen when editing are not what we get when printing, or even the same when we post them to our web pages. We needed a solution to the problem and, after a good bit reading reviews, went with the low price "huey".
Following the quick start quide included in the package, installation of the software and actual calibration of my monitor took less that 15 minutes on each of my computers. This worked much better than expected on my XP PC with a CRT monitor and my Vista PC with LCD monitor.
Checking my prints against the newly calibrated monitor, they are now very close to a perfect match! This product was not too expensive and did exactly what we need it to do!
Highly Recommended!
Customer Review: Good product, good value
Summary: 5 Stars
Though affordable, does the job well.
Main reason to buy was unsatisfactory prints, too different from what was expected by the look of the screen. The result was shocking: I didn't expect the calibrated screen to be THAT different from what I thought was OK.
Easy to install. The SW is very helpful, no confusion. Will remind when to re-calibrate. Offers options for usage (photo, doc, ets.)
The device is nice and nonintrusive. I use the correction for the ambient light, no problem.
System: PC, CRT
Con's: Hard to say, it is a duet of the device and the screen. If the screen is so-so, you will not achieve a perfect match (but you will know it while doing calibration and you will know what screen to look for.)
I don't have experience with the expencive devices, so this is fine by me. No complaints. Happy user.
Amazon was great at delivering.
Customer Review: Great Product for the price
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a little leary that a product this inexpensive could perform well, or would be difficult to set up and use. Not a problem! I followed the instructions exactly, (yes, read the instructions!) and had the system installed and operational in under 15 minutes. 25 if you include the time to go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest software update, and reboot the computer a couple of times.
Once installed, the monitor calibration only took a couple of minutes and there was a noticeable difference in monitor color. I had thought the suction cups for the little device you use to calibrate might be a problem with an LCD screen, but not to worry. It worked just fine.
Yes, there may be better products out there, but they cost 2-3 times as much. For the hobbiest or serious amateur photograher, this is the one.
Customer Review: Solid hardware, software could be better
Summary: 5 Stars
I used the Huey to calibrate a Dell 2007WFP and Lenovo T61 laptop display. For the money the Huey hardware can't be beat. I personally think the Windows software they bundle with it is crap. I calibrated my monitors using Argyll CMS, open source Linux software. That software is professional quality and paired with the Huey I got amazing results.
The Windows software uses between 10 and 15 different color combinations (I didn't count the exact number) during calibration. Argyll allows you to control the number of colors and quality. It takes longer, about 60 minutes to create a high quality profile with Argyll, but the difference was noticeable, and the profile I created in Linux worked fine in Windows. So, excellent hardware and highly recommended. The software for Windows will yield good results but not the best possible.