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Epson 2400, Custom ICC profiles and Grayscale printing

Epson 2400, Custom ICC profiles and Grayscale printing

2005-11-20 by garethjolly

I'm a traditional darkroom printer, trying to get the hang of digital.

I've bought Colorvision's Spyder 2 and ProfilerPlus.

I've calibrated my monitor and created an ICC for Ilford Gallerie paper.

The problem I'm now having is using the ICC with grayscale printing.

I can use Photoshop to determine the colours (via Print Preview),
select the ICC and switch off Colour Management in the print driver. 
But it won't let me use grayscale.  I then get a slight colour cast
when I print.

Can anyone help me with eliminating the colour cast?  I suppose there
are two possibilities:

- printing grayscale with the ICC I've created; or

- may be there's a problem with either the monitor ICC or paper ICC or
both....

Incidentally, I'm using Photoshop on PC.

Thanks in advance
Gareth

Re: [Digital BW] Epson 2400, Custom ICC profiles and Grayscale printing

2005-11-20 by Steve Kale

Don't use a colour ICC profile to print B&W.  You have the 2400, use
Advanced B&W.  Also create a QTR Create ICC profile of your favourite Adv
B&W settings and use that profile with Let Photoshop Determine Colors  (CS2
language).
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> From: garethjolly <garethjolly@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:31:00 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] Epson 2400, Custom ICC profiles and Grayscale printing
> 
> I'm a traditional darkroom printer, trying to get the hang of digital.
> 
> I've bought Colorvision's Spyder 2 and ProfilerPlus.
> 
> I've calibrated my monitor and created an ICC for Ilford Gallerie paper.
> 
> The problem I'm now having is using the ICC with grayscale printing.
> 
> I can use Photoshop to determine the colours (via Print Preview),
> select the ICC and switch off Colour Management in the print driver.
> But it won't let me use grayscale.  I then get a slight colour cast
> when I print.
> 
> Can anyone help me with eliminating the colour cast?  I suppose there
> are two possibilities:
> 
> - printing grayscale with the ICC I've created; or
> 
> - may be there's a problem with either the monitor ICC or paper ICC or
> both....
> 
> Incidentally, I'm using Photoshop on PC.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Gareth
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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