Digital BW, The Print

Hello Bruce,

>A compromise needs to be made that only the skilled eye of a 
>printmaker can shape for most pleasing results. 

I think you have put your finger on the thing that I was intuitively
feeling but couldn't articulate.  I have also been following this
discussion with a lot of interest, but while the theories make sense I
still couldn't quite see the practical application and have had an
uneasy sense about it.  I have never really understood the
technicalities of what we're doing (the gamma-this and log-that just
makes my eyes glaze over), so my own pathfinding has been a mostly
intuitive process based on years of darkroom experience.

>The monitor can be changed to match the print, but not the other 
>way around. 

This is exactly what I eventually arrived at (but from a non-technical
approach), hence my workflow practice of setting the printer profile
to "Same As Source" and choosing a document space profile to get best
WYSIWYG.