Digital BW, The Print

Forget the grey balancer - just throw it away.  There are many ways to
convert RGB to B&W - take a search through the archives - desaturate is
about the worst possible way.  I assume you want to keep the Epson UC inks
for now.  What platform do you use Mac or PC?  Definitely suggest trying
QTR.  See:

http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html

Very effective, flexible and inexpensive.

Steve


> From: binbarn64 <binbarn64@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:17:00 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Neutral B/W Prints Epson 2100
> 
> 
> 
> I would like to achieve printing neutral B/W prints using the Epson 2100 and
> Archival Matt Paper. Firstly, should I print from a grayscale file or an RGB
> file 
> that is either desaturated or made B/W by using the channel mixer in
> Photoshop? Secondly, does the 2100 have to be linearized using the Gray
> Balancer in order to correct the colour cast that I seem to get? The results I
> have had using just black ink are not good either.
> 
> Any advice or instructions would be greatly appreciated
>