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Epson R2400
I just got the Epson R2400 and have been going crazy trying to get the
green (or blue?) tinge out of my balck and white prints. I have tried every different setting on 3 types of paper. I drained the ink wells trying everything to get a straight black and white print. Wal-Mart could do a better job. Any advice? |
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Epson R2400
"doc" wrote in message ups.com... I just got the Epson R2400 and have been going crazy trying to get the green (or blue?) tinge out of my balck and white prints. I have tried every different setting on 3 types of paper. I drained the ink wells trying everything to get a straight black and white print. Wal-Mart could do a better job. Any advice? I'm using the Japanese market model (on Win XP), so the driver probably looks different, but over here in the Printing Preferences there's an "Advanced" button. Clicking that gets you a dialog box with "Color" selection option that includes "Advanced B&W Photo" and "Black". Try "Advanced B&W Photo" with "Color Toning" set to "Neutral". David J. Littleboy Tokyo, Japan |
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"doc" wrote: I just got the Epson R2400 and have been going crazy trying to get the green (or blue?) tinge out of my balck and white prints. I have tried every different setting on 3 types of paper. I drained the ink wells trying everything to get a straight black and white print. Wal-Mart could do a better job. Any advice? Try desaturating the RGB file before printing it, works for me. -- Would thou choose to meet a rat eating dragon, or a dragon, eating rat? The answer of: I am somewhere in the middle. "Me who is part taoist and part Christian". |
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Epson R2400
doc wrote:
I just got the Epson R2400 and have been going crazy trying to get the green (or blue?) tinge out of my balck and white prints. I have tried every different setting on 3 types of paper. I drained the ink wells trying everything to get a straight black and white print. Wal-Mart could do a better job. Any advice? Try http://www.oziphototool.com/ Dennis |
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:42:06 -0800, doc wrote:
I just got the Epson R2400 and have been going crazy trying to get the green (or blue?) tinge out of my balck and white prints. I have tried every different setting on 3 types of paper. I drained the ink wells trying everything to get a straight black and white print. Wal-Mart could do a better job. Any advice? Chances are that if you're having that much difficulty it is a defective unit - take it back and get another one. |
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On Feb 19, 12:42 am, "doc" wrote:
I just got the Epson R2400 and have been going crazy trying to get the green (or blue?) tinge out of my balck and white prints. I have tried every different setting on 3 types of paper. I drained the ink wells trying everything to get a straight black and white print. Wal-Mart could do a better job. Any advice? Are you printing from Photoshop? A lot of off color problems are : 1) uncalibrated monitor 2) wrong profile 3) using the printer driver rather than photoshop to apply the profile. 4) Using 3rd party papers without the proper profiles Buy some Epson paper that you have a profile for from your machine software. Use "print with preview" in PS set your profile there. Go into your printer driver, probably under the "advanced" setting turn off color matching or color correction. Let PS do the work. Also check for monochrome profiles, there maybe some on the printer disk. Good luck Tom |
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On Feb 18, 10:42 pm, "doc" wrote:
I just got the Epson R2400 and have been going crazy trying to get the green (or blue?) tinge out of my balck and white prints. I have tried every different setting on 3 types of paper. I drained the ink wells trying everything to get a straight black and white print. Wal-Mart could do a better job. Any advice? I'm surprised no one has mentioned this: if color inks are involved, even if the image file is B&W, you'll likely get some kind of color cast. The solution is to print with black ink only. I'm not sure what the setting is for the 2400 driver menus, but I've done it all the time with my 1280. Huge difference! Check through all the menu options when printing and look for "black ink only" or "grayscale printing" or similar. -Karl Winkler |
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In article om,
"Karl Winkler" wrote: On Feb 18, 10:42 pm, "doc" wrote: I just got the Epson R2400 and have been going crazy trying to get the green (or blue?) tinge out of my balck and white prints. I have tried every different setting on 3 types of paper. I drained the ink wells trying everything to get a straight black and white print. Wal-Mart could do a better job. Any advice? I'm surprised no one has mentioned this: if color inks are involved, even if the image file is B&W, you'll likely get some kind of color cast. The solution is to print with black ink only. I'm not sure what the setting is for the 2400 driver menus, but I've done it all the time with my 1280. Huge difference! Check through all the menu options when printing and look for "black ink only" or "grayscale printing" or similar. -Karl Winkler Actually desaturating allows the color inks to be used with nominal color shift......on both my 1280 and my R1800,.... I have both. -- Would thou choose to meet a rat eating dragon, or a dragon, eating rat? The answer of: I am somewhere in the middle. "Me who is part taoist and part Christian". |
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On Feb 19, 6:15 pm, Little Green Eyed Dragon
wrote: In article om, "Karl Winkler" wrote: On Feb 18, 10:42 pm, "doc" wrote: I just got the Epson R2400 and have been going crazy trying to get the green (or blue?) tinge out of my balck and white prints. I have tried every different setting on 3 types of paper. I drained the ink wells trying everything to get a straight black and white print. Wal-Mart could do a better job. Any advice? I'm surprised no one has mentioned this: if color inks are involved, even if the image file is B&W, you'll likely get some kind of color cast. The solution is to print with black ink only. I'm not sure what the setting is for the 2400 driver menus, but I've done it all the time with my 1280. Huge difference! Check through all the menu options when printing and look for "black ink only" or "grayscale printing" or similar. -Karl Winkler Actually desaturating allows the color inks to be used with nominal color shift......on both my 1280 and my R1800,.... I have both. -- "nominal color shift" would be too much for me. When I print B&W, unless I want it to look "toned" or "tinted" (i.e. sepia, etc.) then I don't want any color at all. I found that it was very difficult to control the color shift when using color inks. However, black ink only, with the printer resolution set at 1440 dpi, produces very good B&W prints on the 1280. From what I've read, the 2400 is far better using the three black inks (black, light black, light light black). I'm very tempted to retire the 1280 and get a 2400 for this reason, and also the pigment-based inks and the individual ink cartridges. -Karl |
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