Digital BW, The Print

Two more things I've noticed since last night:

1. I can now make lightning fast prints at 720dpi that are nearly
indistinguishable from 1440dpi. This is a major improvement from
PowerRIP where I had to use 2880dpi to get decent results. I can see a
slight difference with a loupe, but even then it's very hard to tell.

2. RC papers will not behave well without making some major tweaks in
curves. I tried both Epson Premium Semigloss and Ilford Smooth Pearl.
I was not able to get decent output the short time I tried. The output
was much warmer than on matte papers and when I tried to make the
print cooler the shadows stayed warm no matter what I did. I switched
back to matte black very quickly. I'll experiment more with this some
other day. I also had to reduce ink laydown in the Epson driver by 20%.