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Re: [Digital BW] Purple cast on B&W prints

2002-03-10 by grady carter

Hello Michael Kravit,

I am in Houston, Texas.  As large as this city is,
there is nothing here of acquiring profiles or
anything else as specific as B&W printing with inkjet
printers...Would you please inform me as to how I can
contact Profile City...I would love to print neutral
B&W prints using my 1280 Epson printer using a G4 MAC,
Photoshop 6, Epson Archival Matte and Lustre paper
with Epson's regular dye inksets...Any information
will be appreciated...Thank you.

Grady Carter

--- Michael Kravit <michael.kravit@...>
wrote:
> David,
> 
> Yes and no. With a well profiled inkset you can get
> b/w prints with no color cast and little of no
> crossover in the shadow areas.
> 
> For example, I recently had Profile City make me a
> profile for the Epson 10k inks and H. Torchon.
> Yesterday I printed 30 16x20 images for a
> photographer friend. The prints were made on my
> Epson 10000 using the hextone color inks. They were
> perfectly neutral, no dots, no color cast. As I
> mentioned, the key is a very clean profile.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael J. Kravit
> Architect/Photographer
> Boca Raton, Florida
> www.kravit.net
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: David J. Bookbinder 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:19 PM
>   Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Purple cast on B&W
> prints
> 
> 
>   I have the same problem printing black and white
> prints using the built-in
>   profiles. When I use the Epson Colorlife profile,
> the images come out
>   more-or-less black and white. My understanding is
> that to get true black and
>   white, you really need to use a black and white
> inkset (that replaces the
>   colored inks with shades of gray), such as any of
> those mentioned often on
>   this list, rather than the Epson colored inks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 


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