Digital BW, The Print

I accidentally posted the following on the wide format forum (they all look the same don't they!) and got a predictably cynical bunch of smart a$$ replies but here goes:

I use a 7880 as a daily workhorse and for colour stuff.

But for special and personal BW work I still use an old 1800 with 3mk plus
various dilutions. The very best prints I have ever made I did using just the
3mk (no dilutions) on Hahn PR Pearl with a light overcoat of Hahn spray to fix
the Eboni to this PK paper.

The result is supeb; slightly warm, gentle lustre, 2.3 dmax, no digital
artifacts whatsoever. The slight grain introduced by the lack of dilutions
really works to gently sharpen portraits and seems on this paper to somehow add
real depth. It totally removes the digital look (I use a 5d). Paul, you must
have tried this combo as there are already curves for it in QTR which work
superbly. I am very grateful to you for 3mk and its subsequent incarnations.

I recently shot some portraits of elderly customers at our local village pub. I
have printed them this way and in my view these prints are the best I have ever
done.