Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, David Kachel <david@...> wrote:
>
> More limiting is the only answer, and if it's in middle tones, that means
> more limiting of the light inks.
> 
> I have to admit, that left me a bit puzzled. Why would limiting light inks
> be the solution of the mid tones are the problem?

the light inks actually go much farther down the scale than might seem obvious, and they are running at very high percentages in those values.
I'm afraid I don't have enough experience messing with the OEM RGB driver to tell you specific setting to try. I've done enough to know that at the lowest ink settings, plain paper in the printer I tested, Arches did not mottle or bleed, but was also weak from too little density. We found a good compromise, it may have been enhanced matte, or the watercolor radiant white (name just a coincidence), and with a good custom profile did fairly well. It was not for hot press though, which will show the mottle more clearly.
Tyler