Digital BW, The Print

>Is monitor calibration/profiling necessary for black and white 
>digital printing and photoshop processing of scanned black and white 
>negatives?

>Obviously a must for color work, just wondering if necessary to 
>spend the time and expense to calibrate my new Mac display for BW 
>work only.

I used Adobe Gamma for quite a while and then used SpyderPro2 to calibrate
my monitor.  For the B&W I do, I don't think the SpyderPro2 is worth much.
I see almost no difference. 

The more important factor is getting the relative densities to look like the
print.  For this, the calibration software does not do a very good job.
I've use a Photoshop preview or "soft proof" (click on View then Proof
Setup) procedure that seems to work better than the other alternatives.  I
have the procedure posted at
http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/Monitor-Profiling.htm .

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com