Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, folks, for the help.  

I'm having trouble with the Roark curve too.  A 21 step test strip 
looks really compressed.  

I'm not a whiz at this stuff.  Cone/Piezo worked well, but that was 
on my previous computer. So I'm wonding about my settings upstream of 
the Piezo driver.  What, in general, should I do in the color space?  
And what else might I be doing wrong (a lot, probably)?

Stephen