Digital BW, The Print

Cleavis,

Since the Lysonic E inks were made to be a direct replacement for the 
Epson inks, your results are similat to others printing B&W with the 
Epson inks. As noticed with your print #1 it can be difficult to get 
a truly neutral B&W print with color inks. The use of a good color 
profile like you did with #2 goes a long way to improving results. As 
odd as it may sound, I think you need better color management to 
print neutral B&W with color inks than you do for printing color. 
That neutral point is very revealing of slight color imbalances.

If you convert a grayscale image to RGB, exactly the same data is 
placed in each of the three channels and the on screen image does not 
change. Remember you are viewing your grayscale on an RGB monitor so 
the graphics card in your computer is essentially doing the same 
thing when you are in grayscale.

Martin

 --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., lyonscox@m... wrote:
> Let me see if I can do this.  On the occassions that I actually do 
an 
> experiment that I pay attention enough to, to record those results, 
I 
> will put it here as such thread.  These may be few and far between 
> FWIW.
> 
> Tonight I printed on "Espon Photo Quality Gloss Paper".  Started 
with 
> a greyscale scan.
> 
> Print #1 Printed in Greyscale (therefore no other driver available 
in 
> the "space" settings) and it had a distinct green cast to it.
> 
> Print #2 ran unsharp mask (oops, forgot on the first one), 
converted 
> the file to RGB and printed using Cone EP30EP_EsponPQGP ICC 
profile - 
> is a fairly true neutral.
> 
> That profile I believe is set for Espon inks, not Lysonic but it's 
> the closest to monitor match I have yet.  I should note that the 
> instructions say to print in color and that the driver I mentioned, 
I 
> think, is not for "Epson Photo Paper".
> 
> Also INTERESTING that there is no visual cue from the monitor when 
> switching between greyscale and RGB if the original scan was in 
> greyscale or the color information has been discarded.
> 
> FWIW.
> Cleavis in AZ.
> 
> Been laughing at metamerasims-whatever.  
> Thinking it should be meta-miranda rights.  
> My prints have the right to hang on the wall.  
> They have the right to look different under different lights.  
> They have the right to acting different in other environments.
> They have the right to be influenced by paper, framing/glazing and 
> illumination.  They have the right...