Piers, thanks for your detailed reply.
>To answer your drect question this way - the inbuilt HP driver optimisation
>provides nice-looking prints, no doubt. But there is no way to describe the
>results as reproducible across different printers/different papers/different
>inksets. ICC profiles make that possible, equally no doubt. If you aleady
>have the XR, what is stopping you?
>
Well, for one, I don't have the MonacoEZColor software, only the MONACOoptix
software for screen calibration. Second, I don't have a flatbed scanner (I'm
considering getting one), only a Nikon slide scanner. And third, I was
wondering whether I would get better profiles for my printer than the EPSON
"standard" profiles which already give me rather good consistency between my
calibrated screen and the print - at least with the 2 papers I use most. But as
you mention, it's difficult to judge this accurately; and it could be better.
So... food for thought!
Bernard
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