Digital BW, The Print

Thanks Mr.Roark
I looked closely to your page 6 graph with EB6; I can see the compression that actually gives me those blacks.
I'm into finishing a curve that would be applied just prior to printing as my monitor is quite a bit off from the print. You're right about modern monitors. Mine is quite bright (iMac) and maybe I should try to match it with my Epson printer so to have a better preview of what will be printed.

Last thing, is it very important to print a flattened image? I save all my Photoshop files with layers and just before printing, should I flatten them.

Thanks

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Paul Roark <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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> The most common workspace -- gray gamma 2.2 and Adobe RGB -- compress the
> shadow tones significantly.  So, what you are seeing is not uncommon.  QTR,
> on the other hand, uses a straight line curve.  Both workflows can be
> use successfully  but proper profiles need to be used, and the monitor may
> need to be calibrated or otherwise adjusted.
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