Professionals and photo Enthusiasts gain award-winning huey functionality plus multiple-monitor calibration and customizable profiles
CARLSTADT, N.J., March 7th, 2007 – Pantone, Inc., the global authority on colour and provider of professional colour standards for the design industries, today 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 colour 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 colour output.
“Monitor calibration is the first step to controlling colour in a digital workflow, yet many designers and photographers still don’t calibrate and profile their monitors,” said Helmut Eifert, vice president of Pantone Europe. “By offering easy to use, professional features, we hope to build awareness for the importance of monitor calibration in the colour management process.”
Which huey is right for you?
The huey family of products is sold exclusively through Pantone and now offers two monitor colour correction devices for hobbyists, enthusiasts and professionals:
o huey: For enthusiasts just getting started with colour management, huey takes less than five minutes to make onscreen colour fidelity appropriate for viewing photos, playing games, creating graphics or browsing the Web. Unlike other colour calibration tools on the market, huey is the first monitor calibrator to continually adjust for ambient lighting.
o hueyPRO: Designed for hobbyists and professionals looking for greater colour control and consistency when working between multiple monitors, hueyPRO packs advanced colour correction functionality into an affordable package. Like its sibling huey, hueyPRO delivers professional results without requiring expertise in colour management.
“I love huey but sometimes need a greater level of control to achieve my preferred colour results. The additional features of hueyPRO, like extra intervals for the calibration reminder and separate gamma and colour 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.”
Pricing, Availability and System Requirements
hueyPRO will be available in April 2007 at www.pantone.com and other major electronics, photo, and online retailers for an RRP of £88 / €129. huey is currently available at www.pantone.com, for an RRP of £59 (excl VAT). 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 the PANTONE 100 TOP COLOURS/solid coated book. PANTONE 100 TOP Colours is a guide featuring the 100 most popular PANTONE Colours used in the graphic design industry, along with printing ink formulas and RGB values.
