Digital BW, The Print

The last couple of days I've been trying to get good results with the
3800 (K3) on Photo Rag, just using the settings in Photoshop CS and
the Epson ABW driver. It is very likely that one can obtain better
results by using QTR to create ICC profiles, as was recommended to me
by several members of this forum. However, not being familiar with
that aproach and not having the time to sort that out right now, I´ve
stuck to the options provided by Photoshop and Epson.  And I am, in
fact, quite satisfied with what I found: I´ve been using a
densitometer to measure the gray wedges I printed, and I succeeded in
getting a curve that is very close to the Target Densities that I also
used in the past when I printed with MIS UT-FS.

Here are my settings, I hope someone will benefit from it.

Kind regards,  and thanks to the great people on this forum who gave
me their advice.

Igor
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SPECS:
Epson 3800
K3
Windows XP
Photoshop CS

PHOTOSHOP CS SETTINGS:
Color Settings (Ctrl-Shift-k): Working spaces / Gray / Gray Gamma 2.2

Print Preview Settings (Ctrl-Alt-P): Print space / Profile / Printer
color management
This means the the color management in Photoshop is disabled. In CS2
and 3 this is done another way (from Eric Chan's site): Go to the File
menu and choose Print with Preview... (CS2) or Print... (CS3). In the
box that comes up, set the Color Handling menu to No Color Management.

EPSON ABW SETTINGS:
Media type: Ultrasmooth fine art.
Print Quality: Superphoto 2880 dpi
Uncheck: High speed, Flip Horizontal, Finest Detail, and Edge Smoothing.
Tone: Dark. 
Max Optical Density: 0 (= default).
Highlight Point Shift: Off (= default).

I needed different settings for the Neutral and Warm Color Toning:

If you prefer Color Toning: NEUTRAL
Contrast -8
Shadow tonality +11
Highlight tonality +13


If you prefer Color Toning: WARM
Brightness -1
Contrast -8
Shadow tonality +11
Highlight tonality +13 


That's it. 
Succes!