Digital BW, The Print

Kevin,
it is a mess with all those acronyms, isn´t it, but as far as I know 
there don´t exist any  MIS "VS" inks.

So "FS" means "Full spectrum", those inks are equivalent to the 
old Cone PiezoBW Quads and should be printed via the Cone 
Piezo driver, though there exist some workflows for the Epson 
driver which are used by a few
MIS "VM" means variable mix, which reffers to the fact that you 
can use different curves (developed by P. Roark) to print a more 
or less warm or cool b&w tone. There is a  new option with the 
advent of the sepia VM inks for sepia printing, again using Paul´s 
curves.

So, to make it clear:
if you ant to go with MIS Quadtone, you have the choice between
1. the original MIS Quads with several workflows (not 
recommended nowadays)
2. MIS FS standard ( bit warm) or neutral ( both only 
recommended if you have the Cone piezo driver)
3. MIS VM cool - warm  or sepia, one of wihich you should try, if 
you haven´t got the Cone/Piezo driver and must go with Paul´s 
curves, which are free of charge.

The most fool-proof combo is the Cone driver with MIS FS inks 
(standard or neutral), because you have a lot of paper profiles 
integrated into the driver. 
This is not the case with MIS VM and using Paul´s curves may be 
a bit tricky, and  results maybe not printer-independent.

I´ve no personal experiences with the Sepia set, so I can´t 
comment on their special options.
Bernd



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Kevin" 
<imaginaryapple@i...> wrote:
> Hi I've decided to go ahead and buy an 1160 due to many 
reasons, including
> affordability and they are very very easy to get in australia... So 
now the
> printer part is settled, what MIS inks should I get (im planning 
to go
> CFS)... Im thinking FS-N, because neutral B&W is probably 
more versatile for
> me than having to fiddle with sepia options if I get VS-sepia 
(altho its
> nice to be able to print sepia)... So my question is, considering 
i want to
> print mainly neutral B&W, can VS-sepia achieve as neutral 
tones as FS-N
> whilst allowing one to print sepia as well, or am i better off with 
FS-N
> becos its neutrals are more superior than VS-sepia?