Datacolor User to User Support Group.

I'm a Luddite. I don't do soft-proofing. I print with Qimage, as someone 
else wrote. My printer profiles, made with PFP, produce "perfect" matches 
between monitor and print (yes, no monitor-print match can never be totally 
exact, never truly perfect - but as close as anyone can tell). The 
monitor-profile match is sometimes "perfect" right from the start, but more 
often I need to tweak the printer profile (the one I just made in PFP) 
once, twice, three times. That is not a time-consuming or tedious chore. 
If, after making your initial profile, you leave PFP open and do your test 
print, just click the Back button on PFP, make your adjustment (maybe tweak 
Brightness by 1 or 2 slider positions, etc), make your "new" profile, do 
another test print, and you're done in 4-5 minutes at the most. Yes, if you 
want to make 3 or 4 little tweaks, then the time will be 15 or 20 minutes. 
But then you have an excellent profile which will last you for a long, long 
time - for that particular paper.

Incidentally, a few months ago I had to insert several new ink carts in my 
1800 (almost ran out of ink from those tiny little carts - what a great 
surprise!!) and found that the new inks required a new set of profiles. 
Epson used to have that trouble all the time, but I thought in recent years 
they'd tightened up their quality control. I guess not.

Bill Hansen