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In reading up on soft proofing on Cambridge Color, it's their opinion that monitors have a larger colour gamut than printers? I've got an old Acer monitor and the Canon Pro-100. I thought my printer had the larger colour gamut. What is the truth?

I can't remember such a painful feeling of buyer's remorse worse than when I just received my X-Rite ColorMunki via UPS, calibrated my monitor, then viewed a sample matrix and it was too dark. Oh, that's right, this happened right after printing on my new Pro-100; everything was dark. Hence...