Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Louis Dina" 
<lou@...> wrote:
> Try calibrating your monitor white luminance to a value between 90 and
> 100 and see if that solves your dark print problem.  If you are
> getting dark prints with good, custom color profiles, then it is most
> likely that your monitor brightness is too high.  
> 
> Lou


I agree on the most likely diagnosis. I've struggled with this for 
quite some time myself. However, I solved it differently. 

I now use a Photoshop softproof icc profile created with QTR-Create-
ICC. In this way I can very precisely tune the monitor white brightness 
to the (apparent) paper white brightness. And I don't have to sacrifce 
up my monitor brightness highly appreciated in other applications!

Joost