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?

"doc" wrote in message
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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.


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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".

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

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.

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

On 2/19/07 9:31 AM, in article ,
"ray" wrote:

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.

The OP didn't say, and I am surprised that no one has asked, what
application he is trying to print from. Is it Epson's own application, or
Photoshop, or something else? The advice could differ depending on the app.
Generally speaking, the Epson driver should have a setting for grayscale
printing that, according to reports that I have received, does a good job.

If all of the settings in the printer driver are correct then perhaps it is
a defective printer.

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

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".

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