With the explosion of inkjet printers in the home, the printshop (for signs, banners and proofs) and in the hands of photographers and artists alike the need has never been stronger for accurate color reproductions. It is pretty amazing how well the small home printers reproduce faithful color but as the printers get larger (17", 24" 36" 44" etc) the costs go up as to making prints. It's easy to throw away a 8"5" x 11" print because the color is off but it is pretty painful to throw away 24 " x 30" prints.
Xrite has the i1 spectrophotometer bundled with Profilemaker in a few different flavors. With this bunble you can build and tweek your own ICC profiles and stop wasting paper and ink but more importantly you can take hold of your output and deliver the very best print your printer, ink and paper selection that is capable of.It is an easy bundle to use and now you can profile your entire system from monitor to output device for consistant, accurate results. To find out more follow the link below
http://www.baypressservices.com/acatalog/Xrite_Software.html