Digital BW, The Print

Koloshor,

About your 414 densitometer again, if I may. You wrote: "my 
particular X-rite (414) cannot combine its cyan, magenta, and yellow 
readings to give you a black and white reading, so I usually just 
read the magenta channel and call that "density".

However, when I read the PDF manual of your 414, it says that, 
besides C, M and Y, it also can show the "V" or "Visual" value which, 
I guess, is for measuring density (I asked X-rite about this "V"  and 
they replied: Visual is the neutral reporting of Status T,E,G 
densitometry it is not a pure average of the 3 colors but a weighting 
of the results based on ANSI/ISO specifications).

So why not use this V instead of M as you do?

 I ask you all this because I'm really having a hard time deciding 
which densitometer I should buy.

Thanks in advance,

I g o r