Digital BW, The Print

I also posted this to the WideFormat group, but think there may be
some folks here who don't read that. Sorry if this is a problem for
anyone.

I have a 3800 and a spectrophotometer and I make my own color ICC
profiles using I1 Match3. I would LOVE to make my own BW profiles, but
I cannot find anywhere a "Making your own BW profiles for dummies"
explanation. Yes, I have gone to Eric Chan's wonderful site, and I
have read Giorgio Trucco's explanation. And I have QTR and the Measure
Tool. But I am confused still, possibly because I am missing something
about "measuring ink densities" and "linearization" and QTR curves and
….  

If anyone knows of a simple, step-by-step description of the procedure
with explanations for each step intended for people new to making BW
profiles and therefore not assuming prior knowledge, please pretty
please with sugar on top let me (and others) know about it.

Or, if someone is willing to be my tutor-by-email, let me know. Once I
understand it I will write up the procedure for other newbies.

Meanwhile, I am using the Epson driver with ABW for BW printing as I
am getting better results than with QTR out-of-the-box. 

Oh, and I wish there were a way around the Epson Vista 3800 driver's
limitation of media types to only the Epson papers. Will making my own
BW profiles (once I figure out how) for various 3rd party papers make
this limitation moot?

Thanks for any and all help,

   - susan, slchapin@...