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More info?)
I'm, assuming the poster has a few black and white photos he scanned and
wished to make neutral copies of. If so (and maybe I'm wrong), he isn't
going to make a piezo B&W printer out of his color printer. He also
likely isn't going to invest the time and possibly money in trying to
get perfect color management.
I was trying to provide him with the simplest solution for getting rid
of a color cast. Using the driver sliders is not something I usually
recommend, but it can be a fast fix, and can sometimes work.
I suggest trying very small thumbnails, and seeing how they look. He
may just hit something close enough to be OK. Some Epson printers have
good enough profiles, if you use their inks and their papers to get
something approaching B&W using their color inks.
Depending on the nature of the image, especially if it is an old image
anyway, sometimes pushing the image to look sepia can look quite nice.
If the poster has an image program, they may provide him with a duotone,
tritone or quadtone set of filters. I find that if you are stuck with
color casts, if you at least push them in a direction toward something
people recognize or accept as "normal" (Sepia can vary in warmth quite a
bit) it can be acceptable. A pure greyscale is hard to produce with
color inks, although I have seen perfect ones coming from Epson printers
when set up correctly.
Art
Hecate wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 12:42:31 GMT, Arthur Entlich <artistic@telus.net>
> wrote:
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>>Epson's own inks may give you better results, since their printer ink
>>profiles and papers are designed together.
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> I've seen better results than Epson with Permajet Blax and Permajet
> papers actually (or Permajet Blax and several other makes of papers as
> well.)
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> The problem with the 890 is that it's using colour so you're into
> colour management. Generally, I find that allowing the printer to do
> any colour management whatsoever is a big mistake.
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> The best solution is a dedicated B&W printer using, for example, the
> inks mentio0ned above. Next best is properly colour managing. Worst is
> adjusting the printer management because you can be sure that it'll be
> different for almost every print.
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