Digital BW, The Print

Thank you for your book recommendations. 

I am familiar with Color Management (Fraser, Murphy Bunting) and this 
book is of course crucial for colour management, and therefore a 
valuable reference for printing B&W inside the colour management 
system. Techniques of which Bruce Fraser actually outlines in Real 
World Photoshop in far greater detail. These include targeting 
techniques that use soft proofing to see how the profile and the 
conversion settings are going to compress the data along the curve.  
The disadvantages I find with using colour management are not knowing 
precisely when your monitor is actually compressing dark shadow 
values it itself cant reproduce,  and most of us cant make are own 
grey profiles or black-only profiles so we rely on RIP software like 
Image print which cant be soft proofed in Photoshop. I am looking for 
reference material on Same as Source or  Black-only work flows 
outside of colour management. Or even direct data to density 
techniques that correlate printer control signals with measured 
densities.  Techniques which allow absolutely precise control of tone 
contrast such that a lightness separation appears on the screen (or 
can be interpreted though numbers) exactly as it will print out. 

Regards

Eugene Appert