misterc
newbie
Reged: 23/06/2007
Posts: 2
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Hi all you experts out there, hope you might be able to help with 1 or 2 questions regarding printing monochrome digital images. I used to own an Epson 890 which allowed you to switch off the coloured inks and use only the black which gave the results I wanted. Incidentally, I use Photoshop and don't seem able to configure my current printer to print exactly the colours I have showing on screen, but that's another question someone might be able to help with. My new printer, Epson Photo R220 only prints grayscale and not monochrome so there are always coloured tints to my pictures. Epson say that this is better...sorry Epson, absolute rubbish!! and that I need their 2400 printer to do what I want. Can anyone suggest a cheap inkjet printer that might get me true monochrome images (only using the black ink) that I might be able to pick up cheaply until I can afford a nice new A3 semi-professional printer? I still have my old 890 printer but I think I ruined the print head cleaning it and can't get a replacement head. Thanks in anticipation. Mister C
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Fen
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Reged: 12/03/2002
Posts: 19533
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The coloured tints are probably the result of not having a colour profiled setup.
When you've profiled your monitor and printer you should be able to print B&W photos using ALL COLOURS and not just the black ink.
I do perfectly acceptable B&W prints using colour on my Epson 1290s
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Larky
newbie
Reged: 17/12/2007
Posts: 5
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Hello.
Yep, the first thing I'd suggest is colour calibrate your monitor. Now this is a huge subject which a thread can't really answer, but the easiest way on a home set-up is to print a colour chart on the paper you normally run prints on, and hold that up to your monitor and adjust. It's a bodge, but it works.
However, remember the golden rule of a light positioned behind the monitor but not directly in your field of view, normally pointing at the wall. Kill as much ambient as you can.
Pohotshop comes with a colour calibration package, it'll install in your Control Panel (I assume you use PC?) which will at least set your white point.
As for non-black, it could be any number of things. Home printers, especially Epson, are not great for this (I know I'll get flamed for saying that). Practice with the info panel in PShop to tell you your levels will help. Do you get pure black when you print a small, perfectly black square from Photoshop or is that tinted too? If that is tinted, you have driver setting issues and/or monitor calibration requirements. If that comes out perfectly, it's just the files.
I used to spend about 4 hours a day calibrating monitors. It was hell. We had every piece of gear you could buy to help, but in the end it was trial and error, along with painting everything in the studio 50% grey satin and holding countless £130 prints up to the monitor.
If you want, you can post a small section of a file in the PSD format for me to look at?
Take care.
A.
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