Digital BW, The Print

Hello Louis,

>may I ask you what kind of monitor you use? 

I use a 17" Samsung 710N.


>Do you think that a properly calibrated "non-Eizo-colour-management" 
>screen like the Samsungs, Benqs, HPs, whatever, can do the trick?

I think any decent monitor can be used.  I can't say which ones are
the best as I haven't done any comparison tests.  I can say that my
present Samsung is much better than the old Microtek I had before.  I
also haven't done any calibrating beyond setting the brightness and
contrast so that I can differentiate all of the sections of the test
strip on the dpreview web site.  That's pretty much the extent of my
calibration (I think I'm more like Edward than Ansel in my technical
approach <g>).

I use a custom dot gain curve (18%) for the image profile (along with
TONE=Light in the ABW settings) and get real good WYSIWYG and good
shadow separation.


Regards,
Clayton


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