Digital BW, The Print

You are better off preparing a proper soft-proof.  Unless the black and
white points are matched via a soft-proof (and all points in between
properly scaled) you will never get a reasonable WYSIWYG - even then there
are so many factors going into the display vs print view that things can
never be fully equalised.  But a proper soft-proof is a more robust starting
point.  A technique using Eye-One Match has been fully discussed on this
forum.  

In addition, Roy Harrington has been doing additional work on his greyscale
ICC profiles.  These are about ready for the primetime and can be used to
profile the luminance axis of any workflow.  They will give you a much
better management of the dynamic range compression necessary in going from
your workspace to the dynamic range of printer greyscale.  Keep an eye out
for these - they really do represent an outstanding advance to current B&W
printing workflows.



> From: wwodets <odets@...>


> 
> I have a monitor calibrated (with a Pantone Spyder 2) to 5000K and
> 2.2.  My first prints on the 2400 did not match the monitor, so I
> decided to adjust the prints to match the monitor (rather than vice
> versa).  On Epson Enhanced matte this required an adjustment in the
> ABW driver of: contast +10, brightness +8 and shadows +10.  The
> monitor to print match on EEM is very good, the blacks are deep and
> excellent and the gray scale is smooth and elegant.