Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

I can tell you that back in 97, 98, I used some of the inkjets available then (stylus 600 and 1520) with black only on arches hot press. The prints are beautiful and have stood till today (I recall to have read somewhere that the dyes on these printers combined with arches gave a pretty long lasting print for some reason).
I'm on a similar quest as you are, though I'm more focused on a layer for the arches paper after printing and washing. I've been playing around with gelatin (pure grenetin), and still have to wait to be able to talk about it, but the logic of the silver-gelatin days (aka darkroom) tells me there's no reason why it shouldn't work. Hopefully it will... just need more free time to continue fooling around with all this renaissance-like-lab mixing of things!!!
By the way, I have been following your carbon approach closely  for which I thank you, I'm taking  a bit of  what you've kindly shared with all of us and used it quite succesfully till now.
If the gelatin thingy works, I'll let you know!

Happy printing to all,

Pablo