Digital BW, The Print

Hello again...I have been assembling some album books of Prints that I 
have been stockpiling for a while, which were made on my 1280 with UT2, 
on several different papers, Photo rag, German etching, Kirkland etc, 
.......and after getting the 2400, I just had to redo some of the 
better images, and There really is a significant difference i the 
quality, especially on images that were problematic on the other 
printer. One thing that baffles me is why epson has the default setting 
at "darker" as opposed to "dark" or "normal". I find that "normal" 
matches my monitor the best, and also matches the output of an RGB file 
in mono, sent thru with a profile.

Does anyone think that "dark" or "darker" works best for them?

I have been printing only with photo black, on kirkland paper for B/W 
prints. They look very much in the same ballpark as my friends "ilford 
glossy grade 4 prints"