Digital BW, The Print

Hi Allan,

This sounds like the perennial problem of printing neutral B&W using wide-gamut (colour) inks. Your grey tones are made up of coloured ink, and unless your printer profile is very good you will not get neutral greys. I believe that most modern printers when set to "Grayscale" will still use coloured ink to make grey. They may use a bit less colour but it's still not guaranteed to be neutral.

I assume, although you don't say, that you are letting the printer manage colours and therefore using the Epson generic profile. This problem is often solved, or at least greatly reduced, by having a custom profile for your particular printer/ink/paper. Might well make your colour rendering closer to your taste too.

Roger

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Allan Sutherland <allan@...> wrote:
>
> After recently purchasing an Epson PM G4500 printer I am now trying out
> prints. The colour prints look great, but of course work needs to be done to
> refine them to my preference. The question I have is that I converted a
> night time image, colour, taken with a Nikon D300 from colour to B&W. On the
> monitor of this macbook pro, the image is distinctly B&W but when I print
> it, the grey tones are showing distinct blues with hints of purple and
> perhaps green. Unfortunately the manual is in Japanese so I cannot read
> through if there is a solution to this problem. Advise on what sorts of
> modifications need to be made to print in B&W please. (Apologies if this is
> a simple question I should be able to solve myself.)
> 
> Toodle-pip,
> 
> Allan.
>