Digital BW, The Print

You should read Amadou's book, definately. You'll learn a lot.

In the meantime I would download QTR 2.3 for your printer and go to
town ( http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html). Apart from dedicated
greyscale inksets this is the only way to go in my opinion.
It works fantastic for this, the best I've used for easy on the fly
monochrome print toning. I just did a bunch of large things today,
sepia toned on William Turner that were 40"x60" and gorgeous. They
were the last Sepia category I listed here with large intense pure
black backgrounds. Most of the work I've done this way however is
using the neutral or warm neutral settings I've typed below.

Note on the latest version of QTR Roy has incorporated a 3 curve split
toning feature that easily allows you to assign a hue to the shadows,
midtones, and or high values if you want to experiment with that. Very
cool. But to just achieve one consistent hue with Ultrachrome inks use
two of the curves and leave the third one blank. 

I use this set up on a 9600 printer but a lot of people use it with
all the Epson K2 and K3 printers. In the class I taught for years we
used in on the 2200. People like it because it is so easy, and easily
repeatable from job to job.


To start try these curves in your paper type -

 Cool Neutral -   80 Cool / 20 Warm
 Neutral -       *70 Cool/30 Warm
 Warm Neutral -  *50 Cool / 50 Warm
 Warm -           70 Warm / 30 Cool
 Sepia-Warm -     70 Warm / 30 Sepia
 Sepia       -    75 Sepia / 25 Warm



John