Hi Becky, Epsons are notorious for colour casts in BW printing. Some people have successfully used Black Only printing (BO) and doing a Google for that gives many links, including this one:
http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0083Lj Many people seem to use Ebony inks for BO printing. We have opted for the Image Print RIP solution using Ultrachrome inks and are very happy with the results. BW printing on gloss and semi- gloss media tend to be less successful, due to bronzing issues, unless you are going to coat with Conservator's wax. On the other hand, using soft proof profiling for BW is not impossible, but more tricky that colour. The Image Print yahoo group has full instructions on this, but does only apply to that RIP. I hope this helps, Ellie On 29 Sep 2004 Becky Hill wrote about: [PRODIG] black and white prints (snipped for brevity) > I'm struggling to get good black and white prints from my epson 2100. > I have a profile for my printer with the paper I'm using (Epson Semi > Gloss). Colour prints work well with this. My laptop has been profiled > (as much as it can be) so what I'm seeing on screen should be right. > > I'm making black and white pics from colour by using the channel mixer > and on screen they look good. But the prints are coming with a colour > cast of green and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Is it that I need > a seperate printer profile for black and white images? -- Ellie Kennard, Innovative Imaging Studio : http://www.iiStudio.com Contributor to "Photoshop Restoration and Retouching, 2nd edition" by Katrin Eismann =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
