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You could but, I don't think it's worth the money. In addition to PFPro I have probably one of the best systems available and it's only marginally better and certainly not good enough to justify spending 10 grand for the improvement. I have to agree with John N. After awhile you begin to recognise problem colors. I have found that with some artists very little correction is needed where with others I can look at the artwork and I'll know from previous experience what colors are going to give me problems. As John mentioned, monitors don't really give a perfect rendering of the actual print no matter how well calibrated and no matter how expensive. Because the work is "custom" and requires a lot more effort than say printing a photo where the criteria is a good looking image rather than a perfect match I charge accordingly. A big part of art reproduction is educating the artist and that sometimes trade offs are inevitable. As someone else mentioned, the 2200 is "old" technology albeit still very good. Before I would put my money down on another profiling package I would look at some of the new machines. It won't solve all your problems but, will make things a little easier. This is a tough business. 

Best, Walt

>Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am wondering if the PrintFix Pro
>gives 90% (just to pull a number out of the air for illustration)
>accurate results and if I purchase a more expensive system I might
>only improve it another few percentage points of accuracy, but would
>still be running into similar issues, maybe with less frequency.
>
>--- In colorvision_group@yahoogroups.com, wkm@... wrote:
>>
>> I've had the same problem over the years and for me it really didn't
>matter a whole lot using different profiling packages, some very
>expensive ones at that.
>> It seems I always have to tweak something to satisfy myself or the
>artist. Other things that affect art reproduction are the type of art,
>capture method and profiling of the capture device( scanner camera
>etc.). It, at times can be very frustrating. In short I haven't found
>the "magic bullet" yet.
>> 
>> Walt