Digital BW, The Print

Well I have been following this thread and the forum for a long 
time. I am a R2400 user and am getting great results but am having 
troubles matching my calibrated screen to the print. Most people say 
I am a pretty smart guy, but I must admit that all of the talk about 
gamma curves and profiles has my head spinning and I really don't 
think I understand what is going on here. (maybe no one does??) I 
don't own a spectrophotometer and feel that this is too expensive 
for me. I even took a course from the QTR creator and must admit 
also that I remain baffled as did most of the participants. 

If someone could provide some service to provide a resonable way to 
match screen and print (I use R2400, K3 inks, EPSG paper)and some 
instructions on how to use a "profile", I would certainly pay them 
or thank them. I guess my frustration stems from the apparent fact 
that there is no standardized method yet and that the R2400 driver 
lacks a clear soft proofing method so we are still using 
experimental workaround methods created by users trying to come to 
grips with this.

At this point after reading all of this I am so confused what to do 
that I am somewhat exhausted by the whole affair. Color printing 
seems so stright forward. Such a pity that we haven't got something 
similar with B&W.

Hopefully someone like Clayton will continue to work out a 
standardized approach and help all of us non-engineer types with a 
tutorial on how to proceed. Thanks for all the continuing efforts.

Scott