Hi Jack
Others have been giving you good advice. Don't guess, you need to
calibrate a printer profile, or at least use one of the canned profiles.
One other thing I've found, print and print often. My R1800 doesn't do
too badly at B&W, but leave it for a week or two, a few nozzles get
clogged, and it throws my custom profiles way off, which is especially
noticeable on B&W. I was recently offered a R2400, which would do B&W
much more elegantly, but I had to turn it down, as much as I would like
two printers. Couldn't justify the throughput.
On 2/04/2013 8:39 AM, 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
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