Digital BW, The Print

I agree with Ben on that. All of the five K7 ink sets are designed to be variable tone when printed on warmer or cooler papers. 

If you do wish to blend and lots of people blend K7 inks, Neutral is not a great blender. If you add 25% Selenium to the Warm Neutral - you will produce a much more significant effect than adding 70% Neutral to them.  Just make sure that you do not mix shade #s...  The K7 curves will work with all five ink sets and any blend of the K7 ink sets as long as you do not mix the shade #s. In other words, you can mix any amount of Selenium shade 3 into WN shade 3 and still use the K7 curves....  but you can not mix even a small percentage of shade #4 into shade #3 and use the K7 curves. I hope that is clear.

For split toning, you can make the shift at shade #4. If you like noticeable splits - break it at 4 with a pure ink. If you want slightly imperceptible split toning where it's difficult to detect the separation - then blend shade 4 50/50.   Special Edition is a triple split tone ink from Neutral to Selenium to Carbon in the shadows. The splits are blended so it is very subtle and most people who use it think of it as a platinum/palladium process on steroids!

Best regards,

Jon Cone
Piezography
http://www.piezography.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, ben schneider <benjschneider2@...> wrote:
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> Instead of changing the ink, use a cooler, or more neutral Paper.  I have been using Epson Hot press papers.  I use Bright when I want a cooler tone, and Natural when I want a warm tone.  I even use some other papers for even warmer tones.
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> It is sure a lot easier to switch a sheet of paper, then mix up a special ink batch, or change inks.  It is less expensive too!
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> Ben
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