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| Pantone huey MEU101 | 
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| Brand: Pantone
Category: CE
List Price: $89.00
Buy New: $49.00
You Save: $40.00 (45%)
New (60) Used (2)
Avg. Customer Rating:  121 reviews
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows Xp
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 6 x 2
MPN: MEU101
Model: MEU101
UPC: 874086001967
EAN: 0874086001967
ASIN: B000CR78C4
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Failed after one calibration July 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this item in April and used it to calibrate my monitor. It seemed to do a good job. Then the software prompted me to recalibrate after 2 weeks. After running the program to do this recalibration, everything was magenta and my cursor arrow was electric blue-green. I ran the program several more times with same result. I contacted Pantone - they said the item was faulty and that they realized this was a problem with a number of these units and they promised me a replacement unit. They told me the new units would be in by early July. That didn't happen, then they gave a later date of July 21. It is now July 30 with no new units. I can't recommend this unit to anyone. Maybe the new ones will work, if they ever come in.
Easy setup, too bad the results sucked July 14, 2008
Easy enough setup, easy enough to start the calibration, pretty to watch the colors flash on the screen, but the results had a horrible color cast. Checking the Pantone site showed it was a known issue, great. I sent in an incident as they requested, wound up calling in as well. I returned it for another, same problem. Turns out there was a batch of them bad, they knew about it and were waiting on replacements to go out to all us suckers who bought one.
Great business model, product is defective, but rather than recall them and lose sales, sell the broken product and force a user investment in time hoping they'll just wait it out.
Returned it and bought a Spyder3. Bought the Huey late May, was told July 1st a replacement would be on it's way, got an e-mail on the 3rd it would be the 21st at least. So sorry.
Basic Colorimeter June 4, 2008
Huey is a basic colorimeter, opt for the Pro upgrade for software and multiple monitor support.
 Calibrating monitor makes a huge difference May 19, 2008
Before calibrating my monitors, it was very challenging to get a print to match the image I see on the monitor. The Huey calibration is very effective, and I can now be confident that even very subtle hues will look as expected on my prints. I have had no trouble with the huey sticking to the screen long enough for calibration on either CRT or LCD. I wish I had bought one sooner.
 Pantone Huey MEU101 May 9, 2008
Was very easy to install and use. The monitor I'm trying it on however is a piece of junk apparently (Acer AL2016W).
The biggest downside I've found is when working with a graphics program that supports color profiles (like photoshop) I was unsure whether to load the generated profile into the rgb preferences - the manual wasn't very in-depth in this area.
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