Digital BW, The Print

I guess the best way to get this calibration better would be to apply 
a RGB curve to Paul's curves.  What is everyone else doing and does 
anyone want to share their's so I have a better starting point?  I am 
using VM medium warm and neutral curves, PC, 1160 and Archival matte.

thanks,

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "tzinzunzan2000" <ldmr@c...> 
wrote:
> 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....