Digital BW, The Print

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to the forum and to digital printing. Hope you'll be patient with me. Just got 
an Epson r220 and the variable tone inkset from MIS (as described by Clayton), and I'm 
having great fun. I can't believe some of the prints I'm getting on Enhanced Matte and 
can't wait to try Moab, Hahnemule, and other papers.

I use Photo Retouche for digital capture conversion (but I don't use Toned Photos for BO) 
and Photo Kit Sharpener, which require me to be in RGB. I often forget to convert an image 
to grayscale before printing (sort of like printing an image at f/4 or with the white light on 
in the wet darkroom).

Although I like the warm tones I get with this inkset, they seem kind of "rough", with a 
noticeable dot pattern under a loupe--maybe even a little banding. I've found that 
accidentally being in RGB, meanwhile, gives me very pleasing and cool, selenium-like 
prints. Almost creamy smooth.

I can't see color dots in the latter prints, so I assume I'm still doing BO printing. Is there 
anything wrong with this? And, can you give me any tips for better warm-tone printing?

Thanks so much,

Mike