On 01/04/2013 3:39 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
> I'm done wasting photo paper...for the moment. I estimate
having sacrificed about 20 sheets of A3 Ultra Premium Luster in the last
36 hours. Would have been more, but I've been interrupted a few times
with meals, toilet and accompanying my wife in her travels to
uninteresting places.
> I have proof of past B&W successes which only serves to make
me doubt myself rather than the printer. The printer is an Epson Stylus
PHOTO R1800 (remember those?) which I bought new about a dozen years ago.
> The only "calibrating" I've ever done to the system is a
fairly regular session with Huey whenever I begin to see ghostly shadows
bordering images.
> I've given control to the printer and then turned down the
available colors (only includes magenta, yellow and cyan) to a limit of
minus 25. Get a grape blue. If I select "no color control" or "photoshop
elements manages color" it's a shade of magenta.
> I don't do a lot of printing any more, but seems it's a B&W when I
do. Color hasn't been a problem.
> I've made several trips to my favorite lab in Sacramento in recent
years, always to get a B&W done that I'm pressed to supply. I, also, do
that when I need a print larger than 13"x 19."
> I've figured out that a new printer would solve my problem,
but I'd likely not be around long enough to use it up.
> If you're familiar with the printer and have any thoughts
that may help, please pass them along.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jack
>
As Paul said, give control to Photoshop for colour management. Also,
make sure that you don't accidentally have both printer and Photoshop
managing the colour.
You are having the same colour problem with colour prints, but it is
being masked by the colour itself. Sometimes with B&W, you just have to
decide what colour cast is least objectionable.....
However, what I would do is make a test patch in Photoshop that is mid
gray, and then start removing magenta from it in increments so that you
end up with a test target that goes from gray to fairly green, and then
print it. Check which patch is closest to neutral, and them make an
action that will remove that amount of magenta from the image. Do all of
your post processing, and then hit that action just prior to printing.
Sometimes this is the only way around things. When I was still in the
lab, it wasn't uncommon with B&W to have to make minor colour
corrections when printing to get a decent neutral tone.
bill
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