Digital BW, The Print

From the few experiments I did last week most of them were done on H. Photo Rag, a 
good choice because of its good coating and dmax. I haven't tried Somerset because this 
paper doesn't have as deep a max black as some of the other rag media. For many images 
it wouldn't matter though.

 If you have also been working with Piezzotone or similar carbon quad sets like UT you 
might notice that the deepest blacks are easier to achieve with those sets than 
Ultrachrome and max out deeper for the blackest of blacks. Usually with Piezzotone I have 
to back off the deepest blacks in photoshop or risk actually laying down too much ink with 
the pure carbon quad sets. UChrome doesn't have that much black content space to play 
with.

As for media with Roy's curves for color tone with UC and QTR you will notice significant 
difference between the color content with various papers. This just expands your 
possibilities. I tried three papers only so far H. Photo Rag , William Turner, and Hawk MT. 
Condor. I like them all. P. Rag gave me the best range of possibilities, but for the richest 
warmer tones Willilam Turner was very, very nice, and Concorde Rag would move the 
highlights even more toward a very warm result. Papers like UltraSmooth would also give 
easy warm neutral variations due to the slight warming of the highlights of the paper base 
showing through. Papers like Hawk. Mt. Bright White Condor and Legion Matte will make 
the cooler settings even more toward the cool direction because of the additional optical 
brighteners in those papers. Enhanced Matte would be close to H. P. Rag .

What I am going to do is pick 6 hue settings for a spread that I like best and print the 
same identical file using them on 5 different papers, such as mentioned above - such as 
with a neutral, a cool neutral, a warm neutral, a warm, a selenium tone, and a sepia setting 
on the above mentioned papers. You really notice the color of the media a lot more with 
monochrome since the highlights of that paper become so significant. This will give me 
more variations of mono hue than most of my clients can perceive without getting 
confused. I have never seen a system that can give you the capability of matching any 
monochrome color print out there than this one, and without any crossover or 
metamerism at all. 

John