Digital BW, The Print

Many thanks--I will heed all advice offered.  Walt

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> 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@c...>
> 
> 
> > 
> > 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.