Digital BW, The Print

The first and maybe easiest step is to check in your printer dialogue
box(es) for a way to shut off your color. Maybe a check box for monochrome
or B&W or some such thing. Doing that should get rid of any color casts you
may have. For example, in my Epson 1280 I have a box labeled Ink and two
radio buttons, one for color and one for black.

 

HTH,

Tom 

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of rickbehl
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 3:51 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Help for newbie please....

 

Hi all,

Apologies for asking a newbie question but one has to start somewhere...

I'm sure a lot of the information I am looking for is here already
somewhere but it would be great if someone could point the way :-)

Anyhow, here goes. I am shooting mostly film and spend a lot of time
with Ilford and Kodak Tri-X films. From my negatives I am scanning
them myself with a Nikon Coolscan 5000 and then printing from
Photoshop onto an Epson 3800 using the Advanced B&W mode available
from Epson. My monitor is calibrated (using a Gretag Eye-One) but I
have not done any profiling on the printer (pretty expensive from what
I understand).

So far I am reasonably happy with the prints I am getting but they're
not quite as good as I know I can get out of this equipment... I've
seen other examples in Print shops and from friends using the same
printers and they seem to have a little more of that B&W 'X-factor'
that I'm looking for. My prints always seem to have a slight cast
(green-gray). Not extreme but not perfect...

Anyhows, I'm looking for advice on a workflow or areas I need to look
at in order to get 'Exhibition quality' prints from my equipment...

Any advice is appreciated.

Rgds
Rick

 



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