Digital BW, The Print

Shilesh,

I just wanted to let you know that I have my first set of prints 
done with my new piezo carbon sepia/K7 inkset.  After trying all the 
options given me here, I ended up using the 1) Museum K, 2) Dark 
carbon sepia, 3) Medium carbon sepia, and 4) light K7 blended with 
the light carbon sepia (blended using the copy curve and adjusting 
the ink limits).  I think it's possible I could have gotten good 
results with any of the methods. I did try them all initially but 
ended up going with this formula. 

The prints with this combo are still very much warm toned prints but 
are more "brown" than "red" and the highlights are very white (as 
white as they can be on photo rag).  The step wedge is smooth and I 
don't see any problems in the transition areas (with my untrained 
eye).  I am really happy with the prints but will probably fiddle 
with them a bit more just to make sure I haven't overlooked some 
minor tweaking I could do.

Also, I did a "neutral" curve using the Museum black and the 3 K7 
inks and it is far from neutral.  It is a very cold print even when 
compared to the sample K7 print I got from Inkjetmall.  Either there 
is something wrong with my curve (very possible although I don't 
have any inks loaded but the carbon sepia and K7, nothing to cool 
the tone) or the other 3 shades of K7 that I don't have influence 
the tone in some way.  I am guessing that I can blend the carbon 
sepia curve with the "neutral" curve and actually get something 
neutral.  I just haven't had time to try it yet.

Thanks to you (and everyone else here) for helping me figure this 
out.

Jenny