Digital BW, The Print

Joost,

>Putting everything together it sounds to me a good setup would be:
>* K-position: on-demand manual switch between eboni & photo black 
>* C&LC-postion: R2 Neutral gray shades
>* M&LM-position: R2 Warm gray shades
>* Y position: on-demand manual switch between one of the sepia toners 
>and the UT-7 cool toner

That's close to the standard UT7 and UT2.  For those I just used the cool
toner in one channel instead of the R2 neutral so that there'd be more range
on the cool side. Then I could just leave the sepia in the Y position. 

>Some more questions: 

>> The UT7 cool toner is a bit lower gamut than the UT2 cool toner. 
>> [...]The UT7 cool toner is very cold.

>In your article http://inksupply.com/ut2comments.cfm I don't 
>see a UT2 cool toner. What do I miss?

It's there near the beginning.  Basically the cyan channel is the cold
channel in the UT2 inkset.  In the UT7 it's the M channel.  See
http://home1.gte.net/res09aij/UT-2200-Readme.htm 

>> That is behind the UT-3D approach. 

>I looked at the UT-3D set as well. But there are so many warnings on 
>the MIS site that this set is really for the experienced hair-
>splitting professional (my words) that I shy away from it. 

Getting the exact mix has been a problem, but, frankly, it affects all the
B&W inks.  Most won't notice that much, but I do.  And I'm not about to make
a lot of profiles until the issue is dealt with.  The supplier's LK, which
is used a lot in the mixes, is supposed to match the Epson LK.  The variance
from MIS's supplier (which also supplies many of the other third party
sellers) has been too high for me.  

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com