Digital BW, The Print

I just got an Epson 1280 and was so excited about getting the inks 
from MIS and the curves by Paul Roark. The printer came in Monday 
and the inks came Wednesday. Needless to say most of Wednesday and 
today has been spent trying to get a decent hextone print with 
Roark's curves. I have tried every interpolation of paper types 
available to no avail. I was a black Only printer and the printer 
can jump through hoops doing that. I may have to revert to that. At 
least I get in the print just what I have created on the monitor. 
The low zones in the print with the Roark curves (I'm back on 
hextone subject now) are blocked with no detail at all. Just a blob 
of black area where there should be some detail. I'm not familiar 
with editing all three channels containing the print curves, any 
help anyone can give will be greatly appreciated. I'm comfortable 
with custom dot gain curves and image curves, but not with the print 
curves for hextone.

Your friend in photography

Johnny Eades