Digital BW, The Print

I am looking to get back into B&W printing. I used R200 in the past with UT-3D inkset and that proved to be too much for me to handle - could never quite dial out duotone (manytone!) look. I have ColorVision device for calibration.

I'm planning on using an R280 now and I am trying to decide on inkset to use. I would like to print on matte and glossy, and have as little gloss differential as reasonably possible. Being locked into a single tone would be fine if it doesn't look objectionable on Kirkland, Epson Archival Matte and Alpha Cellulose. Archival is not overly important - i'm really just playing and learning with these prints.

I am reading throgh Paul Roark's site and I want to verify that I can simply use Epson 1400 methods with same or close enough results on R280? It would seem that choices for matte + glossy would be:

UT14 - matte and glossy, has glop, can be tweaked a little between neutral and warm
1400-NC2 - similar conceptually to above, change of pigments used for better longevity
1400-NC2b - skips glop. Worse on glossy?
Eboni-1400 - similar to straight Eboni-6, not all that glossy friendly.

Would this be an accurate summary? I have a feeling that I'll be sorry if I don't have glop (I really don't know, never saw one vs the other), which would make it choice between UT14 and 1400-NC2. I am not really sure I understand pros and cons of one vs the other other then NC2 being more archival. NC2 drawbacks?