Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, Doug and Paul, for the advice and encouragement.

I fixed the problem wiht the R2400 and my monitor. Tried several
things, but what did the trick was adjusting the color 
management and the profile. I had color 
management on in PS while I also was using ABW. I realized
(thanks to a note on the Outbackphoto site) that I needed to
turn off color mgt in PS if I was using ABW. This made 
the print significantly darker, much closer to the screen. I can now
tweak the settings in ABW to optimize further, I guess.

For the color, I switched from the Best Photo to the Photo RPM
profiles (using the Epson Premium Semigloss) and that seemed
to make a big difference with respect to the color 
saturation. I am now getting in print what I got on the monitor,
allowing for the inherent differences in paper and screen. 
(You don't care about the color,sorry, but it's encouraging....) 

To answer Doug's question, I am using Gamma 2.2 -- have heard
different things from different people on this issue, but many
seem to recommend 2.2. 

So for color I am letting PS do the color management, turning color
management off in the printer driver, and for B/W I am doing the
opposite: letting the printer do its thing and turning the color mgt
off in PS. Is this what others are doing (if you are doing both on
the 
R2400)? Can't wait to try this with some scans of my older
B/W images!