Digital BW, The Print

Hello,

I am new to this group and found it while searching for information on
printing B&W.

I use an Epson 2200. From Photoshop, I can print beautiful color
prints that are fairly accurate and 95% similar to screen.

I print on Epson Enhanced Matte paper with Matte Black ink and I have
tried to print a B&W from Photoshop (RGB). The picture mostly came out
fine with beautiful sharpness and contrast. However, it seems to
suffer from what I think is metamerism. Under daylight (or PC monitor
light), it takes on an ugly greenish tint in many areas.

Tonight, I have tried to print the same picture with QTR, using the
2200 in 1440dpi, choosing a mix of UC EHM cool and warm at 50% (I
wanted a neutral print), and the print seems to not have the metamism
and is truly B&W. However, it is very washed out (besides a certain
lack of sharpness as well) and totally lacks contrast.

The picture was converted to graysclae then to 20% dot gain gray
profile (the default one), then saved before importing it into QTR.

What could give this kind of result? I do not really want to waste a
lot of paper and ink trying all combinations of settings before
learning a bit more about the program and how the different settings
work...

Thanks for any help!

David.