Digital BW, The Print

Thank you, and Roger, for your advice. Does this mean that it is necessary
to buy a printer devoted to B&W printing to obtain the image quality
normally found with B&W photographic prints?

Toodle-pip,

Allan.

On 26/08/2010 23:53, "C D Tobie" <CDTobie@...> wrote:

> 
> 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.
>