Digital BW, The Print

Precisely, I was just about to post something similar. It could have
more to do with color settings and how files are tagged than a monitor
issue.
Open a step wedge, go to image/mode/assign profile- select don't color
manage...
Now go to color settings and flip through the various grays space
options. You will clearly see how these spaces effect the
representation of shadow values, quite dramatically.
There is a great test in one of the Fraser books to see if monitor
calibration/profiling has achieved it's intention. It will let you
test eacn level. Very interesting, sorry I don't have the title in
front of me- either RW Photoshop or RW Color management...
Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy Harrington"
<roy@h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I was similarly bothered by the compressed shadow values that are
> typically seen.  I thought it was strange that I could have a high-end
> display and a high-end profiling device and software and not get decent
> separation.  What I finally realized was that this has nothing do to
with
> my system being off -- it was entirely the definition of Gamma 2.2....