Digital BW, The Print

Hi -
I'm working on a 2200 with Piezo NK7 Inks and Hahnemuhle Photo Rag.  
As much as I like  these new inks (a lot), I preferred the Warm Black  
color of the previous
Piezo Tone ink set.
So I'm about to experiment by removing some neutral black from some  
cartridges, and adding an equal amount of sepia (via syringe) - not  
to create split toning necessarily, but to generally warm the print  
up.  In a reference to split toning, Jon Cone recently wrote,  
"...Sepia should only be prevalent in the shadows... the mix is in the
mid tones - quartertones -- and  highlights being neutral..."

Has anyone on the list tried something like this, or could you share  
some of your thoughts about it?

The immediate questions are which cartridges to leave as is (if any)   
and which ones to add the sepia.  And equally important would be  
proportion of
Sepia to Neutral.  This emerges as the central question, because of  
the economics. One would like to get pretty close on the first one or  
two tries.

Thanks in advance for your help.  I'll report back on results.

Clay Price




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