Digital BW, The Print

"Thanks for sharing your experience. What did you mean by "using the 
printers full bore ink rendition?"
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Mark Nelson's Precision Digital Negative system has you pick a
"color" for printing your negatives that is determined in the 
calibration process. It is usually a pure R, G, or B tone plus a 
slight mix in of one of the other two. This makes for a brightly 
colored negative and is used because of the varying UV transmision 
characteristics of the colored inks, since most of his work is 
platinum which uses a UV light source.

In my case, I am using silver variable contrast paper. I found that
if I used one of his color mixes, I could not get enough density of 
ink on the negative substrate to get a wide range of tones without 
cranking the contrast filter setting way up to the top and the image 
looked terrible.

So, I abandoned (at his suggestion) the color picking step and just
let the printer driver use all of its inks to make a full Black and 
white negative image on the negative substrate. This way there was a 
lot more ink on the substrate and it worked beautifully.

Don't hesitate to ask more questions...