Digital BW, The Print

I've been working on an image I took with a Canon G2 and printing it 
out with a 1270 MIS VM inks using the 1280 warm curve.

Done both desaturate and the convert to greyscale then back to RGB.  
This thing prints easily with lots of spread.  Much greater than any 
of my scanned negatives.

Are others experiencing this too, those of you who play both sources 
of origin?

The other thought is for the "art" papers that have a texture or 
grain to them.  Do you "Consider" the direction you are feeding the 
paper in the printer in relation to the grain of the paper itself?

Will have to re-examine some small exchanges and ponder that.

Thanks,
Cleavis