Pantone Huey, Eye-One2, & WHCC

Long shot question perhaps, but has anyone used White House Custom Color with a Huey Calibrated monitor, only to get results back that were too dark, and then upgrade to an Eye-One2 Calibrator and get proper results from the same White House Custom Color?

Don, I haven't used WHC but are you using an option for them to color correct the image? If not do you have a profile from them for soft proofing?

Toney, what WHCC does is allow you to send 5 images to be printed as 8x10s to compare your monitor with their printing. I haven't sent any images the normal way, and I don't know whether they make corrections to the samples. I didn't download a profile...but I think I will.

I emailed them about this discrepancy and a rep got back to me saying she thinks I should invest in an Eye-One2, as Hueys provide inconsistent results with their printing. I wanted to see if anyone else has been in the same boat as me. I'd hate to spend the $220 if it doesn't help. But it would be money well spent if it really does make a difference.

The weird thing is my Epson prints match my monitor pretty well...yet she is saying I need to get a better calibration tool.

Downloaded the profiles. Am I supposed to be looking at these in "Relative Colorimetric" Intent? That's the only way the proofs look closer to the prints...

You should use the profiles for softproofing in PS.
A few links :
What Rendering Intent to use?
Color space conversion & Rendering intent
A graphic explanation of Rendering intent
Another link about Rendering Intent.
Printing?

Softproofing as explained on LL.
And another explanation.

(more if you go to the link in my sig: Bruce Fraser also has some links)

Based on that first link alone it looks like I was/am on the right track...relative colorimetric shows me what WHCC will give me (or at least very very close).

After reading some of those links and fiddling around a bit, it dawned on me why the prints look so different. If I turn on gamut warning and adjust my saturation under the WHCC profile to bring it within range, it looks exactly like the print. If I then switch to the Epson proofing profile, it still looks the same. HOWEVER if I undo the desaturation, put it in the Epson proofing, and turn on the gamut warning, it's still within the range.

So basically, the Epson can print to a wider gamut than WHCC. There's nothing wrong with my screen.

If you have large parts out of gamut, Perceptual might be a better choice.

René Damkot wrote in post #3144081
If you have large parts out of gamut, Perceptual might be a better choice.

It was just the brightest part of a flower on the image I fiddled with. Basically just brought it in line with how my WHCC sample looked.

Just a side not with using MPix. They recommended using Rendering Intent: Perceptual with Black Point Compensatior checked.

Interesting. Maybe their profiles are set up differently...? I don't really know much/anything about it since I always just used the Epson provided ones to print here.