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B&W on the 4000 - Epson driver

2004-07-21 by Andrew Unger

I doubt that I'll be able to get the Gray Balancer for the 4000 and 
maybe that's for the best.  It appears that a solution to a neutral 
and I think, reasonably metamarism free print is pretty simple.  

Create a grayscale image, include a ramp.  In Print use "same as 
source" for the Printspace.  Select Custom and in Advanced use Color 
controls and Photo-realistic.  Make a print.  Then follow the Tyler 
Boley method of Grayscale softproofing which I think is still 
available in files.  Make to match what you now see in the proofing 
view.  In my case with EEM it was necessary to open shadows with 
particular emphasis in the 95-100 range.  Make another print.  Once 
you are satisfied with the ramp and the overall image, save the 
setup.  Then work on getting to neutral.  I found that very small 
increments of the sliders give what is needed.  My version of 
neutral was a -2Y adjustment.  Save the settings with each iteration 
under the same name.  It may get to be clumsy to set up say 4 tones 
for each of many papers.  

Epson's advice in the manuals and the Holbert video about B&W 
printing didn't help me at all.  I was going crazy with very 
pronounced color casts trying to print with their profiles.

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