Thanks, Derby. Am using the profile offered by Epson for there Ultra Premium Luster. Jack
----- Original Message ----- From: Derby Chang <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:31 AM Subject: Re: Printing B&W 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 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
