Sepia Toning Forte VC Paper

This past weekend I tried toning twelve of the prints I had printed on Forte VC.  In the past, I have ignored the advice to print my work a half stop darker prior to sepia toning.  The rationale was that redevelopment in sepia after bleaching does not fully restore the print to its original density.  In practice, I had found that the difference was so negligible on the papers I used that it need not be taken into consideration.  With Forte VC, however, there is a substantial lightening of the print after it has been toned.  While the toned prints I made are satisfactory, in the future I will be printing darker prior to toning.