I bought the other day a set of fine art print papers to print a few pictures to be sent to a friend as a gift. I soon had to figure out and after I wasted a few sheets of expensive paper (and ink) that it was not possible (or I did not achieve it) to make the prints look like what is appearing on the monitor, assuming it is calibrated. Today, I tested the assumption of the monitor being calibrated and this was was also not the case. So, I took a picture of Kodak Grey scale and standard colour sheets after I set up white balance to manual and took a picture. I soon had to find out that the picture on the monitor is lacking some yellow to appear more or less correctly like the original (I am working in indirect daylight now). I set up the monitor calibration what seemed to be closest. Then printed that out and it had a completely other appearance.

The question is do you have simple and reliable recommendation to calibrate the hardware and make sure that what the camera sees the monitor shows it and the printer prints it? How do you handle this if this is important to you?