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Epson print problem
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I have an Epson Stylus Photo R380 printer. When printing Black and White photos, 4x6 Best and 8x10 Draft and Standard - all come out fine. However, when I print 8x10 at Best setting - there is a green cast to the finished B&W print. I have tried several different ways of doing the Best 8x10 printing with B&W - with no success - the green cast is still there. I tried taking a B&W picture with camera setting (no color involved), transfer to printer but still get the green cast on 8x10 prints. I'm baffled and ready to deep 6 the printer. Any suggestions appreciated. Conrad |
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Conrad wrote in news:1186318534.605010.238750
@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com: Hi, I have an Epson Stylus Photo R380 printer. When printing Black and White photos, 4x6 Best and 8x10 Draft and Standard - all come out fine. However, when I print 8x10 at Best setting - there is a green cast to the finished B&W print. I have tried several different ways of doing the Best 8x10 printing with B&W - with no success - the green cast is still there. I tried taking a B&W picture with camera setting (no color involved), transfer to printer but still get the green cast on 8x10 prints. I'm baffled and ready to deep 6 the printer. Any suggestions appreciated. Conrad Conrad, this sounds like there may be a color management workflow problem. It happens when both the printer and the computer are trying to manage the color. To say much more, you would need to tell us the program you're using to run the printer, and some details like the kind of paper, etc. If you don't know about color management, you might want to read up on it. Be prepared to spend some time -- it's not a "quick fix" but it's the right way to get your camera, monitor and printer all showing the same thing. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=color+management HTH, Ray |
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"Conrad" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I have an Epson Stylus Photo R380 printer. When printing Black and White photos, 4x6 Best and 8x10 Draft and Standard - all come out fine. However, when I print 8x10 at Best setting - there is a green cast to the finished B&W print. I have tried several different ways of doing the Best 8x10 printing with B&W - with no success - the green cast is still there. I tried taking a B&W picture with camera setting (no color involved), transfer to printer but still get the green cast on 8x10 prints. I'm baffled and ready to deep 6 the printer. Any suggestions appreciated. Conrad Why are didn't you turn off colors in the printer dialog. It seems to me that what you are seeing is just another version of the complaint that Cyan + Yellow + Magenta does not always equal Black. Left to its own devices, the printer driver will attempt to use CMYK when it should have used just K, and the results are quite often undesirable. Jim |
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"Conrad" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I have an Epson Stylus Photo R380 printer. When printing Black and White photos, 4x6 Best and 8x10 Draft and Standard - all come out fine. However, when I print 8x10 at Best setting - there is a green cast to the finished B&W print. I have tried several different ways of doing the Best 8x10 printing with B&W - with no success - the green cast is still there. I tried taking a B&W picture with camera setting (no color involved), transfer to printer but still get the green cast on 8x10 prints. I'm baffled and ready to deep 6 the printer. Any suggestions appreciated. Possibly the printer defaults to 'black ink only mode' for those settings where you get perfect black. If I let my Epson print B&W using all the colour inks I usually get a greenish cast. Work out how to set it to black ink only - possibly in the advanced settings. The availability of black ink only can depend on the paper setting you use. I always use heavy matt setting and can then get the black ink only command. I suggest using at least 1440 dpi in this setting. John |
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are you using cs3? if so ...its having problems with epson printers
and we're all awaiting a fix ... steve On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:55:34 -0700, Conrad wrote: Hi, I have an Epson Stylus Photo R380 printer. When printing Black and White photos, 4x6 Best and 8x10 Draft and Standard - all come out fine. However, when I print 8x10 at Best setting - there is a green cast to the finished B&W print. I have tried several different ways of doing the Best 8x10 printing with B&W - with no success - the green cast is still there. I tried taking a B&W picture with camera setting (no color involved), transfer to printer but still get the green cast on 8x10 prints. I'm baffled and ready to deep 6 the printer. Any suggestions appreciated. Conrad |
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Conrad wrote in news:1186318534.605010.238750
@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com: I have an Epson Stylus Photo R380 printer. When printing Black and White photos, 4x6 Best and 8x10 Draft and Standard - all come out fine. However, when I print 8x10 at Best setting - there is a green cast to the finished B&W print. I have tried several different ways of doing the Best 8x10 printing with B&W - with no success - the green cast is still there. I tried taking a B&W picture with camera setting (no color involved), transfer to printer but still get the green cast on 8x10 prints. I'm baffled and ready to deep 6 the printer. Any suggestions appreciated. Hi Conrad, Based on the fact that that 4x6's do not have the green cast, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is a paper issue. Different papers absorb the inks differently, and this changes the color. For example, it's common to use Premium Glossy Photo Paper for 4x6 prints. This is a fairly pricey paper, and I would not be surprised of you are using a third party paper for your larger prints. If this is the case, try using Epson paper and see if the problem goes away. There is no need to get a special profile made to make use of your paper. You may address the problem directly by bumping the magenta slider in your default printer preferences. If this makes your prints too dark, then back off on the cyan and yellow instead, or a combination of the two. It helps to have a test pattern with various levels of gray for this procedure. The curvemeister site has such a test pattern, and a procedure designed to save paper as you make repeated adjustments: http://curvemeister.com/downloads/Te...test_strip.htm BTW - if you have access to CostCo, they sell a Costco brand paper in packs of 100 that I have found works very well with Epson inks, and may in fact be a repackaging of Epson materials. -- Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com |
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On Aug 5, 5:55 am, Conrad wrote:
Hi, I have an Epson Stylus Photo R380 printer. When printing Black and White photos, 4x6 Best and 8x10 Draft and Standard - all come out fine. However, when I print 8x10 at Best setting - there is a green cast to the finished B&W print. I have tried several different ways of doing the Best 8x10 printing with B&W - with no success - the green cast is still there. I tried taking a B&W picture with camera setting (no color involved), transfer to printer but still get the green cast on 8x10 prints. I'm baffled and ready to deep 6 the printer. Any suggestions appreciated. Wow! Thank you all for the excellent suggestions. I really appreciate the time and effort you all took. Answers to some of your questions follow: I am using CS3 when tweaking photos. I transfer to a memory card (my MacMini computer doesn't talk to my printer). I load memory card into Epson R380 printer and use 3rd party paper to get finished print. I've tried to look for/obtain a different driver with no success. Trying to reach Epson is like trying to talk to God. |
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Try changing the brand of the paper.... or using a different brand of ink this often happens if you are not using OEM ink and paper. There are often these sort of problems posted in the Printer section http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/forums/printers/ Davy |
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