Digital BW, The Print

Up to a point, I tend to agree with you. Since you are working with a 
luminous screen on the one hand and non-luminous paper on the other, 
you will need to visualize just how much the luminescence of the 
screen will be diminished or not shown in the print. However, you 
should be able to calibrate your monitor to your paper to get a very 
close correspondence between the two with regard to relative tonal 
relationships. 

Chris Hargens

 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "markhahn2000" 
<markhahn2000@y...> wrote:
> 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....