Digital BW, The Print

Hi all. My name is Louis Meluso. I am Photography Manager for the 
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. At work I print fine art 
subjects on an Epson 7600, 5500 and R2400. I've been lurking here for 
a while and find it very interesting and informative. Since this 
question came up I thought I would jump in and say hello. I just 
bought a new C86 and MIS-EZ-N inkset to make some nice B&W prints at 
home. The inital investment is quite reasonable and the setup was 
easy. I started off using Paul Roark's suggested settings but found 
them a bit too flat for my machine. Initally my very first prints had 
bad overspray "dots" on the edge of the image and bad banding. I 
found I could not get a clean black nozzle check. New machine so I 
figured no clog but air bubble in the line. I shut the printer down 
and let it sit overnight and restarted the next day. Surprise! 
Perfect nozzle check! Perfect purge print. No overspray! I'm stoked! 
I took a couple hours of running scales and some small test images to 
get at driver/PS curve setting that gave me good range and separation 
on EEM and HPR. I can't say it was really quite "EZ" but now my 
prints are looking real nice and smooth. I think the word "wow" did 
leave my lips at one point. Not quite the brilliance of BO printing 
but I think with a bit more tweaking of the curve it will yeild very 
satisfying results with great tonal smoothness. I haven't tried 
refilling the carts yet but it looks fairly straight forward. I say 
jump in! My thanks to the many that share information and experiences 
on this forum. It has helped me a great deal.

Louis Meluso