Digital BW, The Print

The curves as stated by MIS are very printer specific. Mine is the
740 so the closest one was Paul Roark's curves for the 1160. The
first try of these curves unmodified starting from cool, to neutral
cool, medium warm, and then warm, showed progressively darker prints.
Actually very dark if not dripping ink at the warm end. However I was
able to tweak his curves to get very good grayscale with virtually no
perceptible dots in the highlights when viewed under a loupe except 
for the very fine random dithering in the light brown/blue ink mix.

I think I may be able to get even better results using a CYMK
workflow, but my RGB curves are already very good.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "mckenzielamb" 
<mckenzielamb@h...> wrote:
> Has anyone developed curves for vm inks and the Stylus 890 (on a 
> PC)?  The 1280 curves developed by Paul Roark do not work with the 
> 890.  I don't have the time or understanding to work up curves on 
my 
> own, but I'd like to be able to use vm inks with my 890 (especially 
> since I've already installed a CIS with vm inks).  If anyone has 
such 
> curves, I'd really appreciate it if he/she would send them to me or 
> tell me where I can get them.  Paul suggested that if I can't get 
vm 
> curves, I should consider using an FS inkset, but I'd prefer to 
have 
> more toning options.  Any suggestions?