You could profile your monitor first so you system is running a correct ICC profile for your monitor. Then profile the paper ink combination. There are a number of generic profiles around from Epson or Marrut, who supply Lyson ink paper. These work very well in some 1290 printers but others, mine included, cannot respond well to the profile. If that is the case then the only real alternative, apart for buying all the profiling equipment and learning how to use it, is to have an expert construct an ICC profile for your machine. Each profile is unique and is for one paper ink combination on your own machine. Therefore the way we went was to decide on two papers we liked, by weight (thickness) and texture, and then get a profile made. Two profiles will cost you as much as the original printer did but the results are great and save a huge amount of time fiddling about changing things in the driver settings to try to achieve a good match to the monitor. However, having said all that, I know an eminent member of the AOP who last week showed prints and said he had nothing profiled at all. His prints on an Epson, with Epson paper and ink looked superb!!! The problem is that once he send his files outside his "closed loop" then other people will not see the files as he sees them.
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