Display Calibration Improves Colour Consistency

Pantone has introduced its Huey Pro, as part of its family of display calibration products.

Pantone has introduced its Huey Pro, as part of its family of display calibration products.

Huey Pro is designed to improve colour clarity and consistency across multiple CRT, laptop and LCD displays.

T he original Huey made the once complicated task of monitor calibration simple and approachable, claimed Pantone and the new Huey Pro is said to provide additional functions for users who frequently print photos and other graphics, share them between monitors or upload them to websites.

About the size of a marker pen, Huey Pro is said to retain the form of the original Huey, as well as its ability to continually adjust the monitor as room lighting changes.

With the addition of new software, Huey Pro offers increased control over brightness and contrast through separate menu choices that allow users to select gamma and white point settings.

An improved 'help' function offers hints and workflow suggestions for improving colour output.

Helmut Eifert, vice president of Pantone Europe, said: "Monitor calibration is the first step to controlling colour in a digital workflow, yet many designers and photographers still don't calibrate and profile their monitors.

By offering easy to use, professional features, we hope to build awareness for the importance of monitor calibration in the colour management process." The Huey family of products is sold exclusively through Pantone and now offers two monitor colour correction devices.

Huey is designed for those people just getting started with colour management, as it is claimed to take less than five minutes to make on-screen colour fidelity appropriate for viewing and, unlike other colour calibration tools on the market, it is claimed to be the first monitor calibrator to continually adjust for ambient lighting.

Meanwhile Huey Pro is designed for greater colour control and consistency when working between multiple monitors.

Huey Pro is also said to provide professional results without requiring expertise in colour management.

As one user, Jon Canfield, explained: "I love Huey but sometimes I need a greater level of control to achieve my preferred colour results.

The additional features of Huey Pro, like extra intervals for the calibration reminder and separate gamma and colour temperature pull-down settings, give me greater customisation options.

The best part is that Huey Pro is just as easy-to-use as Huey, whilst the simplicity of the device itself remains the same." Huey Pro will be available in April.

Both devices work with LCD, CRT and laptop monitors and are compatible with Mac OSX 10.3.9 and higher, as well as Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

An upgrade for registered Huey users will be available from Pantone.

For a limited time, Pantone added that Huey Pro will be bundled at no additional cost with the Pantone 100 top colours and solid coated book.

Pantone 100 top colours is a guide featuring the 100 most popular Pantone Colours used in the graphic design industry, along with printing ink formulas and RGB values.

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