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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B&W on the 4000 - Epson driver
2004-07-21 by Andrew Unger
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