Digital BW, The Print

I have been scanning 75 years of my father's B&W negatives and mine, editing them with Lightroom on a Mac, and making 8x8 and 8x10 prints with an HP 9660. Family members and I prefer the results to the wet prints I made 40 years ago. Now it appears that HP has discontinued the photo gray cartridge for the 9660. I intend to use this as an excuse to set up a dedicated B&W printer that can handle 13" wide paper. I live on a modest fixed income so this will have to be done on the cheap - buying Lightroom was an uncharacteristic extravagance for me.

While many digital B&W practitioners here and elsewhere on the net seem to assume the use of Photoshop for printing I have seen several references to the use of Lightroom instead. I have read with interest Paul Roark's description of using the Workforce 1100 with Eboni-4 ink. I have read enough here to appreciate the complexity of digital B&W printing but not enough to know if I am missing something. Is there some other combination of tools and materials that might make more sense for a digital B&W neophyte on a budget?

--Doug Anderson