Datacolor User to User Support Group.

Hello to Everyone,

I work for  a university photo dept which is in need of print profiling solution for our Epson 
printers. We currently have the Spyder2 monitor calibrator,which seems to work fine, but I 
think it's time to start creating custom icc profiles for our printers to fine tune our color 
workflow. As it stands now we are using Epson profiles, which don't match up close enough 
for our liking; a lot of paper/ink being wasted on test strips and so on. I know that prices for 
custom profiling software can cost an upwards of few $1000. My question: does anyone have 
an opinion as to whether or not the Spyder3 would be sufficient in creating profiles for this 
type of environment or would we be better off spending the extra $$ for the higher end 
systems? For those of you with experience, is there a significantly noticeable difference 
between the quality of Epsons canned profiles vs those made with the Spyder3? Pardon my 
ignorance on the subject; this is my first venture into custom profiling and I want to be sure 
that purchasing a system will be money well spent. TIA