On the hueyPRO, and the color green.
A while back I bought Pantone’s hueyPRO color calibrator. It’s pretty slick: not only does it calibrate your displays, it monitors your ambient light and adjusts your displays’ color calibrations in real time to match changes in your surroundings.
In theory.
In practice, the hueyPRO software loses contact with the hueyPRO gizmo (the bit that’s sitting in front of your displays, monitoring the ambient light). Unplugging the USB cable and then plugging it back in suffices to remind the software what the hell it’s supposed to be doing. But still.
Jay Nelson reported this problem to Pantone, and says they’re working on it. I hope so.
And the little light monitoring gizmo comes with a cheap plastic stand, to better enable to watch you. Which, of course, broke within days of opening the package. That’s how flimsy plastic hinges work, you see.
Other than those, um, quirks, my hueyPRO’s been great. I recalibrate the displays occasionally, and replug the gizmo occasionally, and everything hums along.
Till the other day, when I recalibrated and hueyPRO turned my displays green. There’s a nice feature at the end of the calibration process that lets you flip back and forth between the corrected and the uncorrected calibrations. Uncorrected showed the reddish tinge I was used to seeing there; corrected got rid of that, but excessively, so that the displays looked sickly green. Rather like the Asawa sculpture above.
Turns out that Pantone is fully aware of the problem. Something’s wrong with the hueyPRO, and if you report the problem they’ll send you a replacement gizmo.
Hope so.