Digital BW, The Print

Jim, I only had 1 pack of photo rag from media street, and it's just
about gone. Haven't used it for awhile, but I did use Paul Roark's
curves and print the image in the RGB Mode. I used the cool, and neutral
curves from Paul, I've never used the warm ones, except to test them
once. If I remember, it seems as you have to have your image a tad
contrastier and a little lighter on the monitor than when using
brightcube's eclipse satine.  (But darker than if you were printing on
EAM paper). Try varying the gamma (middle triangle) in the Levels
dialogue box. For EAM its 100, For Eclipse, it's 85, for Photo Matte its
90, and I THINK the photo rag was 95. These are done on an adjustment
layer in photoshop.  Be sure you set the black point so you get a true
black somewhere in the print, or measure your deepest black and be sure
it is 100 percent black.

I just got my new 1160 up and running with a new CIS and new MIS VM inks
a few days ago. One thing, if you like the deep blacks, get the
generations 4 enhanced black ink from media street and substitute it for
the VM black position ink. the VM BLACK ink does not give a satisfying
black. 

Jerry