Well, if your monitor is calibrated at least those who also have calibrated systems will see something like what you wanted, the rest are just uncontrolable. The gamma value of your display won't matter for printing as long as you work in a profile aware application and tag your images with your workspace. Adobe and (I think) Corel tools (certainly painter, I think DRAW has the same setup) do that, Paintshop pro has some kind of colour management, not sure what Quark offers, Freehand is pretty awful unless I'm missing something.