A properly calibrated monitor is important for producing good quality prints.

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Product Description

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40421 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Pantone
• Model: MEU113
• Released on: 2009-05-12
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 2.00" h x 6.00" w x 9.50" l, 1.00 pounds

Features

• Automated monitor calibration in less than three minutes
• Customisation options for increased control over brightness and contrast
• Continual ambient light measurement and adjustment (measurement intervals can be set by user)
• Support for multiple monitors
• Suitable for LCD, CRT and laptop displays

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Customer Reviews

Well worth it!
I've been using a dual-monitor setup for quite a while, using a Philips and a Sony LCD. I've never been able to match the colours of the two monitors, and believe me I've tried! The situation got worse when I upgraded to Vista. For some reason ATI's Vista graphics driver made everything look washed out. Out of desperation I decided to get a screen calibrator. I found lots of reviews online for Pantone's Huey and ColorVision's Spyder range. The basic packages don't support dual-monitors so I either needed the Huey Pro or the Spyder 2 Suite. After reading reviews I settled on the Huey Pro, partly because of one glowing review in particular, and also because the device itself is a lot more compact than the Spyder. I have to say, it really worked miracles. Flicking between the corrected and uncorrected modes really shows how unnatural the default colours are. And more importantly, my two LCDs now look ALMOST identical. A lot of people didn't like the automatic room lighting compensation, but I find it quite useful. I'm an avid gamer and none of my games had any problems with it. It can be switched off anyway.

UPDATE: I recently made a move to reclaim my desk-space by selling the 2 19" LCDs and buying a 22" Samsung instead. The default settings on the Samsung gave a horrible blue tint to everything. Whilst it is of course possible to adjust this manually it will never be as accurate as when corrected by proper callibrator. The Huey Pro did an amazing job.

Huey Pro - Does exactly what its meant to!
Before buying this item I did a lot of research on the internet as to which colour correction product would be the best - particularly as I have an aluminium iMac with a glossy screen. I appreciate that these displays are not the best but was keen to get both this and my additional monitor calibrated as best I could for illustration work.

When the product arrived, I gave it a go straight away (make sure your screen has been on for at least 1/2 an hour). I did this in a completely dark room so as to reduce any reflections on the glossy screen. It all seemed to go smoothly and the results were dramatic to say the least! I did end up, however, with the dreaded green cast (as widely reported on other websites).

The program then detected that I had an additional monitor attached. Great news as some websites had sugested that the Huey would not support dual screens on some iMacs (the current iMacs have graphics cards that have two seperate graphics controllers on them). I went through the process again on my second monitor. Once again this resulted in a similar green cast. In fact I was amazed at how similar the colour reproduction on both monitors now are, especially as they are different brands.

Colours are noticably better - not as pale or, conversly, as acidic as was previously.

After a few minutes the green-ish apperance was not at all noticable and I really believe it is simply because before my monitor was too red and takes a while for you to get used to the calibrated image. The colours really are now great!

From reading various websites one would be given the impression that the glossy screens on iMacs can't be calibrated using one of these gadgets. I definitely feel both screens are much better as a result of using this product. Also the feature that changes the monitor's profiles as the ambient light changes is fantastic too.

A great product! My only gripe being that Pixmania sent the item by 24hr delivery five days after I ordered it. Had I not emailed them four times and rung them I firmly believe it would still be sitting in their warehouse.....

Not advanced enough for photography
i've had this unit 3 months. but am now considering buying a more advanced unit.

The set up is easy, the unit doesn't stay on screen and you have to hold it in place but thats a minor thing.

my problems with it are that firstly the set up requires you set the contrast and brightness manually. even with 2 good quality lcd monitors I think this leaves an element open to error. secondly the amber light sensor sometimes brings the brightness up so much that it washes the images out.

My main problem is although the images appear fine on screen. (great for websites design but not for printing) You cannot calibrate the printer and are left with prints which maybe way off what you have on screen.

This lack of control I feel is very important as I would like to print at home. most highstreet photo labs nowdays adjust even digital images to give an average gray (correct exposer) so when you are doing high key or low key images they come back looking wrong and the only way to print what i want is to print at home but without correct printer profiles you have a lot of messing around and costly wasted inks & paper.

I would not rebuy this product and would not recommend it for photography.