Printing Grayscale Prints with the Epson 2200

As some of you know the Epson 2200 is a very good color printer but
black and white prints made with it are very tinted, toward the blue
and purple. And printing with the black inks alone is not a good
substitute because the tonal scale is not good. Some people have
resorted to 3rd party solutions by MIS, Piezography, Harrington, etc.
but in a recent supplementary issue of Photo Techniques, called
Mastering Digital Photography, there is a much simpler solution that
gives very good results. The prints are very neutral in tone, with
perhaps just a hint of a selenium cast similar to what you might get
from selenium toning silver gelatin prints. Here is all you need to
do to print this way.

1. Change the image to RGB.
2. Go to Image > Adjustment > Desaturate
3. Go to Print with Preview and change the Print Space to ColorMatch RGB.
4. Click Print. Set the media type for the paper being used, and Ink
to Color. Leave settings on Automatic and click OK.

I got excellent results usind both Epson Luster E Surface and Epson
Enhanced Matte in initial tests.

Sandy
Received on Tue Sep 28 17:30:26 2004