Digital BW, The Print

I just received my sample print of the K7 inkset and I am shocked at
how ordinary this print looks.

It is an image of two water towers with two pick up trucks inside a
dark carport. It was done on a 2200 on Innova Smooth Cotton. As for
neutrality, when I laid this print down beside a print done on the
same exact paper with UC, QTR, and Roy's curves 70C/ 20 W, the color
tone is very, very close to my UC print, I proimise. The superior
tonal seperation simply isn't there in this sample print, and the
other Piezzotone ICC prints I have on this table or my UC QTR prints
from drum scans for the most part actually look richer in both ends of
the tonal spectrum. The blacks of this sample print are not in ANY way
superior from a direct comparison to other inkjet prints I have around
here and the highlight seperaton compared to Piezzotone ICC with
Studio Print especially look flat and ill defined. 

Look, Jon Cone knows more about digital monochrome than I'll ever know
but someting isn't right with this sample print. I just looks dull.
Has anyone else received one and if so what are your first impressions?

As to this whole discussion of neturality, I agree totally with what
Tyler just said. I think a lot of us strived for absolute neutrality
because for so long it was unobtainable for the most part. Now that we
have it I also say, so what, why is it desireable? I actually prefer
some hue to my monochrome prints, either toward cool, warm, selenium,
or something. Now it could be I'm just looking at an imperfect test
print from a not so great scan, but really I feel like staying exactly
where I am for the time being until I see more. I do hope my first
impressions are not final ones.

John