Digital BW, The Print

Steve,

>... "dumbing down" the monitor - deliberately moving it away from a 
>well-profiled state - is not a wise course of action, ...

I think I agree.  Many of us in the past have been using workable but
complex custom dot gain curves to "soft proof" the print.  I think the
monitor and view should be left where the widely used profiling systems like
the Spyder2Pro set them.  (Note that previously used Adobe Gamma, and it put
the gamma in about the same place.)

Adobe RGB (1998) is about the most widely used standard as far as I know.
For grayscale, gray gamma 2.2 seems widely accepted and displays my GS files
the same in that mode as when they are converted to Adobe RGB for printing.


>... We can display better black and brighter white than we can print ...


I don't think I can.  How many stops does your monitor deliver?  That is,
what is the 100% black and 0% white reading range?


Paul
www.PaulRoark.com