Digital BW, The Print

Gosh, i don't have any trouble getting neutral B&W from the UC inks and std driver.  I use 
"printer color management" (as you do) and sliders at zero.  It comes out neutral.

Of course I don't use a gray scale image, but RGB.  Grayscale only has to be converted to 
RGB by the printer anyway, and the more conversions the sadder (round off, clipping, etc)

I do have to make sure that my RGB "grayscale" is desaturated though.  Made a mess at 
first cuz I was scanning B&W negs in RGB and the scanner was not perfectly neutral.

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Unger" <ungram@y...> 
wrote:
> 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.