Call for 'Huey' Colour Calibration - Magazine article

'Huey' is a gadget set to make life easier for anyone who rates colour accuracy. Think digital photo enthusiasts, prosumers, online shoppers, actually anyone who looks at a colour screen.

It resembles a large fountain pen or desktop microphone (due to the amount of letters used this is inherently bigger than a mic).

Touted as easy to use and set up, you attach Huey (which works as a light sensor) to your screen with suction cups. His, sorry, its bundled software displays bars of colour, which Huey reads for accuracy and then adjusts on your monitor. No need to get into serious levels of colour management.

What is particularly clever here is Huey then sits next to your monitor in its cradle monitoring changing light levels in the room and adjusting your monitor settings accordingly.
Well priced at US$89, Huey is squarely aimed at entry-level users. Colour pros and creatives can try Pantone's more advanced Eye One Display LT and Display 2.

Looking more like a mouse, Eye-One Display LT can calibrate multiple monitors connected to a single workstation. It includes a profile summary reporting capability showing target color temperature, luminance and gamma, and stores all the information in a profile, useful for post profile analysis.

Eye-One Display 2 does all that with unlimited control and customisation capabilities over the gamma and whitepoint settings. Another mouse-shaped device (grey though, not white) Eye-One Display 2 creates high-quality ICC profiles for onscreen softproofing.

All are compatible with Mac OSX 10.3 and Windows 2000 and XP.

This new set of colour management tools is born of another partnership. This time between colour management pro GretagMacbeth and Pantone.

Visit Print21 Online's Pantone store for more details.