Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. DeRocco" 
<pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: daniel [mailto:dnjbackup@y...]
> >
> > i'm getting ugly bands of color -- greenish and magenta -- in my
> > black and white prints
> > (epson 2200, enhanced matte, standard inks). i'd appreciate any
> > advice on how to fix this.
> >
> > i'm converting to B&W with fred miranda's BW Pro, then i'm
> > quadtoning with my own
> > variant of some quadtone presets i've found. i'm using epson's
> > paper-specific profiles --
> > the latest ones.
> 
> Huh? What do you mean by quadtoning? Quadtone prints use four different
> shades of gray or black, not the standard Epson inks.

i mean using photoshop's quadtone feature to exploit the standard inks to get different 
tonal effects. in many cases, this works very well for me, and gives much more attractive 
B&W prints than just printing a grayscale image.

> The latest Epson profiles are very good at B&W, albeit not perfect. If
> you're seeing anything more than a very slight color cast at some midtone
> levels, then you're doing something grossly wrong.

like what?

/daniel

> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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