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Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, has introduced huey PRO, a new member to its award-winning huey family of display calibration products. hueyPRO is designed for photographers and creative professionals to improve color clarity and consistency across multiple CRT, laptop and LCD displays. The original huey made the once complicated task of monitor calibration simple and approachable. The new hueyPRO offers additional functionality for users who frequently print photos and other graphics, share them between monitors or upload them to Web sites.
About the size of a marker pen, hueyPRO retains the innovative 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, hueyPRO 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 color output.
"Monitor calibration is the first step to controlling color in a digital workflow, yet many designers and photographers still don't calibrate and profile their monitors," said Andy Hatkoff, vice president of electronic color systems for Pantone, Inc. "By offering easy to use, professional features, we hope to build awareness for the importance of monitor calibration in the color management process."
Features & Benefits
+ World's first built-in ambient light sensor enables consistency never seen before in any lighting condition.
Embedded with a high-precision sensor, huey automatically measures the ambient light within a room for a new level of precision calibration. Even after the calibration process, huey will observe the light falling on the display and automatically adjust the screen brightness for accurate onscreen viewing any time of the day.
+ TRUE COLOR. From monitor to print.
What you are seeing on screen and in print isn't necessarily accurate – it all depends on your display. The color performance of monitors and printers change over time – phosphors and liquid crystals fade causing the display to drift into unknown colors. hueyPRO calibration brings those mysterious colors back into the open, allowing accurate color to be displayed.
+ Multiple monitor calibration increases color fidelity from monitor-to-monitor-to-print.
Achieve color fidelity between all displays on your system with multiple monitor calibration. Through multiple monitor calibration, you ensure accurate onscreen representation on all of your displays.
+ New color patches added.
To the calibration process for precision accuracy.
+ Advanced Help built in provides step-by-step instructions through calibration and beyond.
The ALL NEW Advanced Help found in hueyPRO walks you through not only the calibration process, but also what to do next. Detailed explanation into color science and calibration, as well as output options, gives you the choice of a quick and easy color correction or an in-depth understanding of the science behind the hueyPRO.
+ User-defined Whitepoint and Gamma combinations provide substantial control over the calibration and output matching.
Tune your calibration to a specific output destination or try different settings to see what works best for you. Now you have the option to choose your own combination of Whitepoint and Gamma targeting in calibration for a new level of customized profiling.
+ Zero in on shadow detail and highlights with the enhanced LCD calibration.
Take control of your LCD Contrast and Brightness by visually tuning the controls to your custom viewing environment. Previously only available for CRT calibration, you can now calibrate your Contrast and Brightness on any LCD display with the appropriate controls.
+ Professional-grade Optical Sensors
huey is designed with the same advanced optical color sensors as the Eye-One® Display solutions. These optical sensors provide accurate, reliable color onscreen; color before only available to the professionals.
+ Easy-to-use & Affordable
hueyPRO takes color control control a step forward with hardware and software specifically designed around you, the customer, not the technology. With the hueyPRO features-set and inexpensive price, it stands out as the best value proposition in digital imaging.
+ Light-weight & Portable
huey is the smallest colorimeter on the market, allowing for easy portability, fitting nicely into most camera bags with other essential accessories needed for use in the field.
+ FREE Technical Support
Which huey is right for you?
The huey family of products is sold exclusively through Pantone and now offers two monitor color correction devices for hobbyists, enthusiasts and professionals:
huey: For enthusiasts just getting started with color management, huey takes less than five minutes to make onscreen color fidelity appropriate for viewing photos, playing games, creating graphics or browsing the Web. Unlike other color calibration tools on the market, huey is the first monitor calibrator to continually adjust for ambient lighting.
hueyPRO: Designed for hobbyists and professionals looking for greater color control and consistency when working between multiple monitors, hueyPRO packs advanced color correction functionality into an affordable package. Like its sibling huey, hueyPRO delivers professional results without requiring expertise in color management.
"I love huey but sometimes need a greater level of control to achieve my preferred color results. The additional features of hueyPRO, like extra intervals for the calibration reminder and separate gamma and color temperature pull-down settings, give me greater customization options," said professional photographer and PANTONE Innovator, Jon Canfield. "The best part is that hueyPRO is just as easy-to-use as huey. The simplicity of the device itself remains the same."
hueyPRO will be available in April 2007 at http://www.pantone.com and other major electronics, photo, and online retailers for a SRP of U.S. $129. huey is currently available at http://www.pantone.com, Apple stores, Circuit City, Office Depot, and Ritz Camera and its resellers for a SRP of U.S. $89. Both devices work with LCD, CRT and laptop monitors and are compatible with Mac OSX 10.3.9 and higher, and Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. An upgrade for registered huey users will be available through Pantone.com.
Special Offer
For a limited time, hueyPRO will be bundled at no additional cost with a free 1 GB jump drive and the PANTONE 100 TOP COLORS/solid coated book.
PANTONE 100 TOP Colors is a guide featuring the 100 most popular PANTONE Colors used in the graphic design industry, along with printing ink formulas and RGB values.
For more information, visit:
http://www.pantone.com/Pages/Products/Product.aspx?pid=550&ca=2
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