Have you run a nozzle check? A plugged cyan nozzle could be the problem. Powell
At 08:20 AM 28/04/2006 , you wrote: > >I had a weird problem while printing the other day. > >A couple of the latest B&W photos I was printing to an ~11x14 size >were coming out with a slight magenta tint on the Epson Enhanced >Matte A3 paper. This despite being fully color managed and making >dozens of seemingly identical, perfectly neutral renderings of the >same file on the same paper in US Letter size. My guess is that that >box of EEM has a slightly off formulation with respect to the EEM >profile supplied for the printer. > >Thankfully, the Epson R2400 has the "Advanced B&W" options. I told >Photoshop to let the printer do the color adjustments and then used >the B&W controls in the Epson driver to print the image with a >slightly warm tone. > >Two others of the photos in that set have a lot of very deep tones. >The difference between the just printed copy and the fully dried-down >copy a day later is large ... > >Printing remains a fussy business, regardless of how sophisticated >the technology. Where the ink hits the paper remains a certain amount >of one-by-one randomness. > >Godfrey >

