Bought it a week ago from Amazon (buy it from Amazon with this link). I’d like to turn this into a pro-looking review, but there’s really not much to say about it: it just works. My test 13×19 print from my Epson 2200 was very similar to the image on my two displays (MacBook and older VGA NEC 17″ LCD). And subjective spot checks seem dead on too.

It’s Cold Here Today

As for the COLD… well, my displays are “cold” now that I’ve calibrated them. At the end of the calibration, the Huey software of course activates the profile it just created, and bam you get the corrected profiile and a dialog box asking if you want to keep it. The sudden shift to blue-green shocked me at first, so I re-ran the process. But nothing veered from the first profile: same blue-green cast. Then I did my two other displays, and they too had this cast. Ok, I’m starting to think, maybe this is “neutral”, and my displays have simply been really warm all this time. My images on the web were never that off, really close to a nice skintone consistency accross displays, but a little cold. And that makes sense if my displays were always a little warm.

I used to calibrate (or should I say “calibrate”?) my displays entirely with software using the built-in System Preferences -> Displays -> Color -> Calibrate. But now I can see that was generating a very warm cast. When I go back to those profiles I’m shocked by how much magenta is in them.

Process

So what’s the process like? Pretty simple:

• Install the Pantone software
• Plug in the calibrator
• Run the software
• Follow directions
• Four minutes later your’re done

The calibrator has tiny suction cups that keep it attached to your display while the software runs its color test loop. Just pop the Huey Pro in the center of the screen and watch the pretty colors cycle.

Noteables

• The Huey has an ambient light monitor that can be used a) only when calibration is run, or b) always, as long as the USB calibrator is attached to the Mac/PC. This option gives you a constantly-correct calibration, despite changing light in the room.
• The Huey Pro comes, oddly, in REALLY nice packaging. I say oddly because really nice packaging is usually the domain of high-end equipment. By nice packaging, I don’t mean leather-bound felt-lined boxes or anything, but the presentation was kinda reassuring, saying “Yes, Matt, you made the right choice here.” Very Apple-like.