Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

Re: [Digital BW] Suddenly, a green cast

2010-01-30 by Paul Grant

black only maybe your black ink is bad?
On Jan 30, 2010, at 12:45 PM, glemasurier wrote:

> Yep. Ran a nozzle check. All good. Cleaned the heads, too.
> Just made a black-only print and even that has a green cast. Holy crap. Maybe it's my eyes. Except that all my prior prints look fine when held next to this black-only but horribly "green" print. Am I insane?
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard Sintchak <rich815@...> wrote:
> >
> > Did you run a nozzle check?
> > 
> > Richard S.
> > Albany, CA (San Francisco bay area)
> > 
> > My Photography Website
> > http://www.lightshadowandtone.com
> > 
> > My Flickr River
> > http://flickriver.com/photos/rich8155/popular-interesting/
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:28 PM, glemasurier <
> > george.lemasurier@...> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > I've been printing on Epson Exhibition Fiber using the K3 inskset and
> > > getting wonderfully neutral prints under by 5000k lighting setup.
> > >
> > > After not printing for a couple of weeks, the prints today are all coming
> > > out with a green cast. I have to go -26 vertical 26 horizontal to even
> > > approach a neutral tone.
> > >
> > > I thought I had a faulty magenta cart, so I replaced it with a new one.
> > > Nope. Same thing. Even opened a new box of paper, thinking the other box had
> > > gone bad.
> > >
> > > Even printed through QTR on both Ilford and Silver Rag with curve 1 cool
> > > and curve 2 neutral, and still got the green cast.
> > >
> > > Do I have a plugged magenta line? Any ideas at all out there? Thanks!
> > >
> > > G
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> 
> 



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.