Grey card batch processing

Does anyone batch process using a photo of a grey card?  I would like to shoot a grey card and adjust for correct white balance using this picture as the correct color for a specific shot series.
If anyone currently uses this technique in Aperture, I would appreciate a step be step how too. 
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

That's how it's done (shoot one in the field; lift and stamp in Aperture).  Completely effective in terms of applying the gray-card-derived WB to a group of photos exposed under the same illumination -- and also effective to show how much and how quickly WB can vary under natural daylight  .
(All of the above assumes RAW captures.  Probably works with JPG -- but only within the pronounced limitations of WB adjustment that JPG presents.)
Fwiw ( ) I used an XRite Passport for awhile -- a good tool -- but finally stopped using it when I realized that outside of scientific photography (extremely rare), WB is an aesthetic choice.  I now simply apply the WB I want for the pictures I produce.  It's quite helpful that my main camera -- Sony a850 -- does a superb job 95% of the time set at "auto-WB".  I have been making a lot of night-time captures recently, and these are all off -- but in these cases a gray-card-corrected WB isn't what I want, either.
Note, though, that however one determines WB, using Aperture's "Lift & Stamp" feature is a great, easy way to apply it to a series of Images.

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