Digital BW, The Print

Jon, 

>I'm thinking about ... switching over my Epson 7000 printer to 
>the MIS FSN ink set and driving it with QTR.

I can't speak to QTR, but as to inksets, I recommend using the newer UT-FSN,
not the old FSN.  While that was the first non-warming inkset, it is not as
lightfast as the UT version. 
 
The old FS inksets had a hextone ink order that used more light inks.  The
ink order that works very well in the hextone printers I've recently set up
is to use dark gray midtone in both C & M positions, medium gray in the LC &
LM positions, and the light gray in the Y position.  The newer desktop
hextone printers then do well with only a grayscale curve.  With the 7000
you might want to do some mild partitioning, but the medium gray is not very
dark, so it can probably be tolerated very high up in the highlights -- may
be all the way up.
 
Another benefit of the CMCMY ink order and UT-FSN is that the 2 dark gray
inks can generate a good dmax on glossy papers, and the UT midtones are
glossy compatible.  So, you'd be able to print on glossy paper as well as
matte paper without changing black ink.  

Good luck.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com