Digital BW, The Print

You only need a profile for color inksets.

Try all the different media settings to see which gives you the best 
blacks.  Backlight film will give you the deepest
black you can get, but posterizes on some images, not on others.  Give 
it a try.

Inkjet printing has one fault that is very hard to overcome. It just 
doesn't deliver deep blacks like
the darkroom papers do.  Now if you were to use small gamut inks on 
glossy paper, you could get superb
blacks, but only on glossy paper. Not for me.



  Jerry,

> I'm finally printing with VM.  Very nice on scenics.
> 
> However, I'm not getting the blacks I want on my BW street photography, so I
> need more grit.
> 
> The Gen4 black sounds great, but I'm hesitant to spend on a profile at this
> time.  What exactly goes wrong when you incorporate Gen4 black without
> profiling?  Is there another way (an easier softer way) to solve the
> problem?
> 
> Glenn

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