Digital BW, The Print

You like premium lustre paper? Really? Aaaaargh! :)

Jer

TigerShark wrote:

> I print B&W images on my 2000P using the "black ink only" setting.  I
> love the results on premium luster paper.  And ... no color crossovers.
>
> TigerShark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: patrick_brosnan [mailto:patrick_brosnan@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:32 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Colour Casting - MIS inks and Photoshop Pro the
> only soloution ?
>
> Hello,
>     I am a beginner who has hit the steep learning curve at a run but
> find myself severely winded at the moment and could do with a few
> kind words from someone more informed.
>
> I rather naively thought I might be able to print off good reliable
> black and white photos to my Epson 895 (seems to be a UK model but
> uses the same cartridges as the 890) but have been hit by the
> infamous colour casting problem. I have taken the photos with a
> digital camera and then converted them to black and white using
> Microsoft Picture It (please stop laughing). When I printed some of
> the darker shots they showed what I then thought was green shading
> but which I now know is colour casting or crossover which is revealed
> under different lights. Under the natural light this shows up green
> and under incandescent light you can get magenta (metamerism). One of
> the biggest problems I have had is coping with the volume of new
> jargon I have had to wade through.
>
>    Looking through the internet and this group the solution seems to
> come back to Using the grayscale inks in combination with the
> Photoshop Pro software with an appropriate curve ( I think it is
> Curve that was mentioned on the www.inksupply.com website, I am a
> little confused as I only started learning this yesterday) for your
> printer. Is this true? Are n't there any better ICM profiles out
> there to tone down the green influences?
>
>    I would appreciate any words of advice please.
>
> Thank you
>
> Patrick Brosnan
>
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