Digital BW, The Print

Harvey, thanks for your advice, but I'm new at this, and don't really know how to make the adjustments that you call for.  I would guess that there is a way to smooth out the steps of a gray scale, but technically, I just depended on a professional profile to do that.  I am not in a position to modify that profile at this point in time.
Not being terribly technically oriented, I just way to make pictures, not tests.
I used to print only on portriga, and selenium tone.  That kind of print doesn't look like the traditional cool toned, purplish print.  I'm not looking for a dead neutral, its just that I could'nt get smooth transitional tones, and sometimes a bit of posterization.  With the dyes, everything is easy.
David