Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "marcsien77"
<marcsien77@y...> wrote:
> Hi everyone.  I am using a mac LCD display with Roy's QTR.  What 
> gamma amd K settings should I select when calibrating my monitor to 
> get the best results for BW with this setup? Thanks for help.  Marc.

Here's how I do it. Calibrate the display so that the 21 stepwedge
looks good, you see all gradations (I use gamma 1.8). Adjust QTR
curves so that the printed stepwedge looks as close as possible to
what I see on the screen (grayscale image). This needs to be done for
each paper you are gonna use. I use UT inks toned, therefore I created
an action which converts the image to RGB and applies a curve which
renders the toner color (again, adjusted visually, no fancy tools).
Can not claim that the results are 100% accurate but they are close
enough for me to get a good idea of what will be printed from what I
see on the screen. Usually the print shows a lot more detail in
tonalities then the monitor.

Andu