Pantone makes colour calibration cheap and cheerful

PANTONE HAS a neat little device for all those colour calibration buffs out there called the Huey, pun intended. It is a little wand that you plug into your PC to calibrate the colour, then it sits on your desk keeping it up to date with ever changing conditions.

It works like this: you run through the colour calibration wizard, mainly picking CRT or LCD monitors and a few other details, then drape the Huey over the top of the monitor. The software cycles through screen colors for a bit and in less than five minutes, your monitor is colour calibrated.

Then you take the Huey and put it in the little stand you see above and it measures ambient room light. When the light changes, it adjusts the monitor so you see the same image regardless of ambient conditions. It can adjust things quite rapidly.

Hueys will carry an MSRP of $89 and most likely have a street price of $79. For this money, no serious graphics house should be without one on every station unless they have a higher-end part already. µ