'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? Dear Becky, Please don't take this the wrong way I don't mean to sound patronising. Unless you have specific black and white inks for your printer you wont hope to get black and white without a cast. I have only used a 2100 once but on my 1290 I do the following and get a reasonably good result. Don't bother with the colour profile you have it wont work. Yes channele mixer is the way to go. As I gather you have two tones of black and white. When printing use printer colour managemnt in photoshop settings. Do channel miser Flatten the image. Convert to grayscale Print (printer colour managemnt) In printer driver, set paper, set to black, so to advanced and set the gamma to the same as your monitor, so 1.8 for mac and 2.2 for pc. That's it, seems to work for me, leave it to dry out for about 10 mins. That's about as good as you can get as far as I know. cheers Ian Reynolds =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
