Can anyone suggest a good starting point for printing B&W with the standard Epson color inks on a 1280 printer? Using Epson matte heavyweight paper. I've tried using the Advanced settings with no adjustment, and prints have a definite magenta cast. I also tried Norman Koren's settings at: http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html#Printer (scroll down until you see a purplish chart headed "Paper, Settings (please see disclaimer above)"). I tried that settings for B&W prints on Matte Heavyweight. His settings improve things, but now dark tones are a bit greenish, and mid-tones are still magenta. This magenta problem exists with color prints, too. On a picture of a waterfall, cascading water in sunlight is white, but cascading water in the shade is a bit magenta or purple. If anyone has some ideas on that, all help gratefully accepted. Eventually I'll probably just get the MIS VM inks, but right now I want to use up the inks I already have, and I have some color I want to do. If I could just use color inks for everything, that would be great, but I really don't want to buy $400 calibration software and equipment. Thanks --Peter
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Using Epson 1280 color inks for B&W
2002-06-10 by kd7mw
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