Digital BW, The Print

As a real newbee to quadtone printing who has just installed the MIS 
VM CFS and trying to use the Roark curves I am just wondering how 
anyone can actually match the luminous screen to actual printed 
output?  After quite a bit of fiddling, I realized that there is no 
way to have your monitor white match your paper white or get your 
monitor black to match 100% ink black on the paper... then it gets 
into the lustre of the paper etc... seems pretty hopeless.  I was 
starting to think that the real trick is to get to know your system 
and develop a mental "transfer function" when interpreting your screen 
image for printing, is this not the case?

Thanks for any insight,

Mark

PS  Thanks again to Paul for his devotion to developing curves and 
supporting the VM inkset, I am very impressed so far and love the 
ability to dial in any tone I wish.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "jacques10040" 
<jacques10040@y...> wrote:
...I tweaked the Roark curve (softproofing on) to yield a good 
> onscreen 21-step grayscale, and am getting prints that are a very 
> close match....