Digital BW, The Print

How are people using the Soft Proof with the Create ICC profiles?  I 
find that (using 2.3.2) checking BPC makes no difference in the 
appearance of the image on screen, but that selecting simulate paper 
white washes out the black unrealistically, *particularly in prints 
with large shadow areas.*  In high key or largely mid key images, 
however, the BPC and simulating paper white actually improves the 
accuracy of the preview.  So I find that the settings have to be 
changed (particularly simulate paper white) depending on the image.

On a related issue:  Steve's last post (or was it Tyler's?) suggests 
to me that for those profiling ABW output, what we should be 
profiling is the "light" output which is natively much more linear 
that the "darker," at least in the shadows.  The gamma shift on 
the "light" setting should be taken care of by the profile.  I'm 
going to give that a shot re the black compression issue that Paul 
and others have been talking about.  I am hoping it will also take 
care of some of the shadow "reversals" I have seen with non-Epson 
papers.  V. 2.3.2 will not accept any reversals or even flat spots 
(identical consecutive numbers), but refuses to make a profile with 
the message: "LAB data not in order).

Walt