Digital BW, The Print

For health reasons I have switched from printing my black and white
images in my darkroom to using photoshop and the epson 7600 printer
with ultrachrome inks. I am getting a color cast to the b&w images-
any tips or ideas as to where I can start to correct this? Thanks

Hello Parson,

>For health reasons I have switched from printing my black and white
>images in my darkroom to using photoshop and the epson 7600 printer
>with ultrachrome inks. I am getting a color cast to the b&w images-
>any tips or ideas as to where I can start to correct this? Thanks

Welcome to the forum.  The color cast is typical for the 7600 and
other models that use the UltraChrome (UC) inks.  The Epson driver
cannot make a really good looking BW print without this cast, and it
also tends to take on a different hue under different types of light.
 There are two alternate approaches for this printer, each of which
has several choices:

1) Use RIP software to control the inks independently of the Epson driver.

2) Use specialty grayscale inks.  These can be used with or without a
RIP, depending on which one you use.

I'm sure other forum members will jump in here with more details on
these approaches.


Epson's newer printers (2400, 4800, 7800, 9800) use newer K3 inks
(three blacks) and have a much more advanced driver that can
produce excellent BW prints.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

> 1) Use RIP software to control the inks independently of the Epson driver.

Try QuadTone Rip...QTR for short:

http://www.quadtonerip.com/html/QTRoverview.html