Digital BW, The Print

Some input and suggestions from those who have more experience than
this newbie would be appreciated:

I have only started about a month ago in digital quadtone printing
using an 1160 and MIS FS carts. After a few hiccups I've got things
going pretty well and I like my prints so far. A couple of weeks ago I
took advantage of the sale at inkjetgoodies and got myself 4oz.
bottles of the MIS FS in anticipation of cleaning out and setting up a
used Niagara CIS I have. Since then I decided to just get a new CIS
and bought a CFS from MIS. Lately, starting to think the MIS FS is a
little bit warm, I bought this MIS CFS with their FS-N inks (4 oz.).

So now I have a new MIS CFS that I still have not hooked up (my last
MIS FS carts still not empty) but I'm now having a quandary. After
reading some of the reviews of the new PiezoTone Selinium inks and
seeing how people are comparing them to other ink some mentioned that
perhaps the MIS FS-N ink is a little too blue. Now I usually prefer
slightly warmer to too blue but I bought the MIS FS-N inks thinking
they were neutral, not blue. Can anyone comment a bit on this? I
imagine I'll want to try the Cone selenium inks some time down the
road but as of now having these two sets of inks already that will be
much later.

And since I now have two sets of new 4 oz. bottles (one FS, one FS-N)
should I even consider perhaps doing some mixing of the two to get a
better balance of too warm and too blue? Or since I'm a newbie maybe I
should just use the MIS FS-N straight to see what I personally think
of it's tone, then I'll know more of the characteristics of the FS vs.
the FS-N and perhaps get fancy later?  Anyone ever try mixing these
two?

Any thoughts or suggestions welcomed.  Thanks.

Best regards,
 Richard  

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