Pantone Huey

Posted by Daniel Payne on November 3, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Talking with my neighbor about proper white balance last week I learned of a color calibration system from Pantone called Huey. I decided to try this system out on my HP laptop running Windows Vista and another desktop running Windows XP.

During the Vista installation there was a warning from Microsoft that this installer had, "Known problems". A quick visit to the Pantone website produced another version of the installer that Vista loved.

Following the quick install guide I had my HP laptop calibrated in under 5 minutes, pretty quick. Then I opened up some images and was shocked to find that the new, corrected profile on my LCD laptop was plagued with a green colorcast. Fiddling with all of the settings for Huey would not removed this color cast. Removing the software brought me back to the original colors that are faithful to both the Fuji and Kodak print labs that I use.

 Over on the Windows XP system I had a good experience, both with a flawless install and improved color accuracy. The CRT monitor was a Viewsonic PF790 and it looks much butter now that it’s calibrated with Huey.

My summary, get the $89 Huey if you have a CRT however buy something else for your LCD laptop.