Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., antonisphoto@y... wrote:

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> And if you can, 
> > would it give you any greater boost in screen-to-print 
calibration 
> > accuracy then just eyballing it?
> 
> ---- It should. But it could also be overkill, depending on how 
stable everything 
> else in your system is day-to-day. You may prefer to have a 
standard file with 
> a full tonal range and at the beginning of a new session, make a 
print and 
> check it against a known Dot Curve. I mostly eyeball for grayscales 
and use 
> the instruments for color.

Some of us have better eyeballs of course. I have to confess to 
taking a print to where I like it on screen, printing it, and from 
then on start to ignore the monitor. I start doing adjustments to the 
image file based on what I see in the print. Like I do in the 
darkroom. This feels intuitive but I wonder if I am wasting paper in 
an ink this way. This is probably unavoidable in the final tweaking 
stage.

Thanks,
Martin