Digital BW, The Print

Barry may have already heard far more than he wanted or needed to hear 
regarding his questions, but I can't help but add this:

It may be the case that you have to justify the issue and expense of monitor 
calibration software and hardware to people who know absolutely nothing about 
these things.  What I have found helpful in making the kinds of points that 
others on this list have so keenly enumerated is to use an analogy.  For 
example, you might say to somebody that doing this kind of work without having 
a high-quality monitor that can be calibrated would be like being asked to 
make an audio recording of musicians without having a good stereo and a good 
set of speakers through which to listen to the recording.  Without those, how 
would you know if the recording you made was any good?

I'm sure you can come up with other examples that may be more appropriate for 
the people you'll have to convince.  Good luck - it sounds like an interesting 
project.

Stephen Petegorsky