Digital BW, The Print

If you ONLY need a spectrophotometer, then you can get the Eye-one 
Design for around $750 USD from www.ecolortools.com . Let me stress 
this again, get this ONLY if you need JUST the spectro, the profiles 
generated with the extremely limited software are not good (normally 
I would use other words, but I'm trying to be polite). I don't know 
exactly what GMB was thinking when they decided to make a package 
that uses all of 45 patches to make a CMYK profile, they just come 
out looking ugly! That was tested using a printer connected to a 
properly limited/linearized RIP, applied either in the RIP or in 
Photoshop, both methods looked ugly.

I haven't tested the RGB profiles, and based on the CMYK I don't 
think I ever will. I had much better results from Monaco EZcolor 
version 2 than with the Design software. I'm not even very fond of 
the monitor profile that it generated, but I'm willing to try again 
and see if it works better the second time. The only bonus with mine 
was a certificate for half price of either the RGB or CMYK upgrade 
(only one). That means you could get the printer portion of the Eye-
one Photo for about $900USD.