How much would I have to spend to get a good to high-quality package for doing my own printer profiles? I read posts on the web from people using entry level profiling package and seems like the results were not great.
IMO the biggest problem is that everyone has a different, often much different, idea of what is "good to high-quality". I am frequently surprised at the color-accuracy and other issues that other people
don't see. On the other hand, I'm sure that many here would see problems that I fail to perceive. So, with the simplifying assumption that by "a good to high-quality package" you mean 'something capable of providing me with good to high-quality profiles':
(1) sometimes the profiles that the paper manufacturers supply provide what are IMO high-quality results, and they're almost always free.
(2) If you're unhappy with the profiles that the paper manufacturers supply, or they don't supply one for your printer + ink combination, but you don't need a lot of different profiles and can wait a week or two to get the ones you need, I have been quite happy with the profiles I've gotten for $25 each from Profiles by Rick (
http://profilesbyrick.com/).
(3) You can get your own hardware--not as nice as Rick's, but nice enough that some people find it a clear step up from manufacturer-provided profiles--for about $450 to $500, something like the new X-Rite i1Studio Spectrophotometer, or the just-replaced version, the ColorMunki Photo.
(4) If you like the idea of something like an X-Rite i1Studio Spectrophotometer or a ColorMunki Photo, but aren't sure, then you can rent one (e.g.,
https://www.lensrentals.com/rent/other-photo/accessories/calibration).
(5) If you want higher-end profiles built by someone else, my understanding is that your step-up is to profiles for somewhere around $100 each from places like Chromix or (forum member) Andrew Rodney.
(6) And then of course there's the $1600 kit already discussed. My gut suggests that your asking this question means you probably ought to try one or more of the foregoing options before spending $1600 or even $1300 on this option.