Digital BW, The Print

The use of profiling is
> pervasive through  the colour world (and I don't just mean
photography) for
> a reason - within measurement limits, it works. 

It isn't "pervasive" throughout photography, though the usual suspects
(Macbeth et al) would like it to be, and no, it doesn't "work" so much
as distract: clear on most digital photolab forums. 

Profiling is mostly a workaround that pretends numbers replace highly
developed visual skills ...  aspiring digital photographers are taught
that the truely miraculous ez-as-pie technology with which they've
been gifted needs to be made complex by mostly-incoherent-priests
(present company excluded, of course :-)

Profiling is irrelevant to *most* who do digital printing. 

Evem more to the point, Epson's newest printers are mere place-holders
that will very soon be replaced by *self-profiling printers* following
HP's Designjet 130.   

Look at the Designjet 130 to see Epson in 2006.