Digital BW, The Print

I am working to print on the hot press fine art paper with the lc in 
the yellow position. I want the prints to look like traditional 
black and white. I think that would be just on the cool side of 
neutral from what I am seeing. I also want all carbon since in 
combination with the buffered paper the prints will have greater 
staying power. The only way I have had success is to use the neutral 
curve for hot press which you provided and then I go to the color 
balance adjustment in photoshop and moved the slider toward yellow 
to use the (now light cyan cart) to cool it a bit.  It looks like to 
achieve the same results using the rgb curves I would be tweaking 
all day and night. I want to use as many of the cartridges as 
possible so that the resolution of the print head is used to its 
full capability. My question is this; am I on the right track here? 
Is the color balance yellow slider short changing the quality?
Any suggestions on how to get more comfortable getting the curve 
right are greatly appreciated too. I suspect that (at least for me) 
it will just take many hours and many little test prints to get good 
at the curves.

Charlie