Digital BW, The Print

Peter,

This may be an overly simple answer to your question, but if your 
prints are consistently dark, why not just cut the brightness of your 
monitor using your video card control?  I have separate monitor 
settings for B&W and color prints (my video card software allows 
reasonably fine steps up and down) and even without a lot of fine 
tuning, my prints generally come close to what I see on the screen. 
When I want to adjust the brightness of the print, I add an 
adjustment layer just before applying the Roark curves.  

Steve

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "flabes23" 
<peter.bongard@t...> wrote:
> HI!
> 
> What's the best way to brighten up a print with the MIS VM-inks and 
> the roark-curves? I've scanned loads of pictures without having 
> properly calibrated my monitor and they all print out a bit too 
> dark. So I want to brighten them up without changing the file. The 
> two possible ways I can think of are 1) raising the curve in PS 
> after applying the roark-curves, 2) changing something in the 
> printer settings, so that only the final print is affected, not the 
> file itself. So, what do you think? Which method is best? Are there 
> any others (perhaps with Qimage, which I also use)?
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter