Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul, I read your UT-3D and 4k articles with great interest. I was
wondering why my 3000/UT-FSN prints sometimes looked a bit green!

Your 'carbon on cotton' concept is deeply appealing to me, and it
certainly looks like the way I'd like to go on my QTR-driven 7500. The
inherent warm tone it has would be my default. It would be nice at the
same time to maximize the number of carbon tones/dilutions to 5K or
6K. I would not want to go further in the sepia direction so
presumably I can omit light magenta; and conceptually I think I prefer
the possibility of greater smoothness with a 6K set over the ability
to neutralize. (If I need to make toned prints, the 4000 with QTR and
epson UC does a decent job.) I would not need photo black.

> If you did not want glossy compatibility, you could use the MIS UT
> standard dark and light carbons (e.g., 3D C & LC), omitting the PK,
> and then make a very light gray with the 3D-LC diluted 1 LC to 2
>base.  (This is the usual dilution ratio.)  The standard UT C and LC
> are a bit darker than the LK and LLK.  This gives you a better
>spacing on your grays and a super-light one for the highlights.

I'm trying to figure if there is a way to add 2 more shades to your
recommendation. Poring over the MIS website, its a bit hard to know
what to pick. The UT-3D choices are a bit confusing...beyond black,
there is carbon, light carbon, LK and LLK. If those four are all
noticeably different dilutions of carbon, I could add the 'LLLK' 1:2
dilution and have my six tones. Or are any of 3D C, LC, LK, LLK so
close to each other that one (or more) would be redundant; and another
intermediate dilution would be better; or light cyan potentially more
useful? -- John