Digital BW, The Print

Ed,

You wrote, in part:
 ...
>I am having a problem matching my monitor to my printed output.
...


The first thing I do is use the Adobe Gamma in the Control Panel (Windows
98).  (When I match the gray bars, I find it useful to blur my eyes.)

Then to get the monitor image to match the print, I used the Photoshop 6
preview feature/procedure.  A very good description of it have been done by
Tyler Boley at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/piezography3000/message/17849

This procedure uses the Edit, Color settings to make a custom dot gain
curve, and saves the curve in a manner that it can be used in a View, Proof
Setup preview system that does not alter the working space and affect the
RGB values when the image is converted to RGB for printing.

Go to Tyler's description of the steps at the above URL for details.

The only thing I recommend in addition to this procedure is to record a
Photoshop "Action" so that the preview/monitor profiling steps become a
simple, single-keystroke function (a function key on my PC was designated).
That makes the procedure easy to apply to images after they are opened.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com