arcady- All printers actually print with a Gamma of 1.0, if you want a 50% gray you point 50% black dots, leave 50% paper white, the printing software corrects for this. At one time Macs were "supposed" to have a gamma of 1, but over the years this seems to have migrated to about 1.8, While PCs which were actually 1.8-2.0 for the most part, in those days have migrated closer to what they are "supposed" to have, the NTSC standard of 2.2. Big problem with any gamma much less than 2 is the dark colors are too far apart, this is why scanners (which actually scan with a gamma of 1, then convert) are 30 or 36 bit these days. When I was involved with Compuserve and the writing of the GIF89a spec one guy wanted to include a gamma setting in it, in retrospect it would have been a good idea, the browser could then correct for gamma differences, just like Photoshop does now. Are we all confused?