Digital BW, The Print

> This confusion may come from prevailing careless of "tone."
> 
> In wet darkroom usage, "tone" refers specifically to the color or
> treatment of a B&W print, as in sepia, gold, brown, selenium, cold,
> ...

The glossy papers also win with respect to this traditional definition of
tone.

Truth is, the paper companies appear to have figured out how to put micro
porous, "glossy" surfaces onto rag (or probably a mix of cotton and alpha
cellulose) that can give us the 2+ dmax we've been looking for.  These
appear to be barrier papers, but they are a major improvement over the older
RC papers we've used in the past.  An inkset that is not compatible with
this new generation of papers is going to be at a significant disadvantage.
I'm not sure if the Piezo inkset would be compatible if it just added a
Photo Black. 

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com