Digital BW, The Print

Clayton,

I have been using your black only technique with Epson enhanced matte 
and getting excellent results. Now I would like to try some rag 
papers.

I just received a sample of Hawk Mountain papers including Osprey, 
Merlin and Condor BW and I'm wondering what settings (paper type, 
speed, resolution, etc.) you would use for black only printing with 
these papers on an Epson 1280 using MIS Eboni black.  Should I set 
the paper feed control to wide for any of these papers?

Do you find that each of these papers requires a different dot gain 
setting to get good WYSIWYG?  

When using EEM, I had my input profile set to dot gain 20 which gave 
too light a print when the output was set to "same as source", so I 
changed the output profile to dot gain 10 for good WYSIWYG.

You indicated that you change the input profile rather than the 
output profile in a recent post.  Is there any advantage to changing 
the input profile versus the output profile?

Thanks,

Roger