Digital BW, The Print

On Aug 25, 2010, at 11:29 PM, Allan Sutherland wrote:

> The problem is that Epson produce printers for the Japanese market with
> different modelling that those in the US or elsewhere. Thus all of the
> information is in Japanese, which makes it difficult to parse, for me, as
> the google results above indicate.

Yes, I own a couple of Japanese-only Epson models, and downloading drivers for them from the Epson Japan website can be quite a challenge!
> 
> I tried setting the printer to grey, but it made little difference. Hints of
> colour are strong in the shadows.

This is inevitable for printer models which do not include gray inks. Even if you custom profile the printer to get a reasonably neutral result under one light condition, the print will change color under other lights. So you really can't make satisfactory black and white prints with printers which do not have multiple gray inks.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...


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