Digital BW, The Print

Martin I forgot to add that a custom profile for a colour printer is
essential. Until you know that the printer is firing the inks in a linear
manner, complex stuff like BW will be next to impossible.

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "martinshakeshaft" <martin.shakeshaft@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 10:24 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Neutral black and white prints with the Epson
2100/2200?


> I know from the archive that this subject has been covered before but
> I have still to see a definitive answer.
>
> Is it possible to get neutral black and white prints with the Epson
> 2100/2200?
>
> Well here I am one box of paper down and I have still to see a black
> and white print that I like!
>
> Straight out of the box I find the black and white prints I am
> getting are too magenta, especially with the Semi gloss paper samples
> included with the printer. So I tried Ilford Smooth Gloss. These were
> a bit better but still not what I wanted. I have surfed around the
> net for advice, including Redriver and luminous-landscape and whilst
> the quality improves when I hold my prints next to a traditional
> darkroom print the differences are all too depressingly obvious.
> There are colour casts in some tonal ranges.....
>
> So I turned to the Grey Balancer. Several prints later and a lot less
> ink and I still don't appear to be any further on towards a totally
> neutral, Ilford Multigrade looking print.
>
> Even prints printed with black ink only are not neutral, they look
> slightly cyan in the darker tonal ranges.
>
> I phoned Lyson Inks who say a Black and white set of inks will be
> available in the next couple of weeks for the 2100/2200, so is this
> my only answer? I am disappointed if this is the route I have to take
> as I did want to be able to print colour and black and white, but
> black and white is my bread and butter work at the moment.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Martin
>
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