Hi gang, hope you might be able to help me. I use photoshop to print my photos. my problem is that they tend to have a purple-ish cast to them even after changing to greyscale mode. what's the best way to get true b/w quality in my images. oh yeah, I'm printing opn an Epson 2200 printer. Thanks!

It might be the printer that's causing the problem. People have had trouble with, say, green casts to their Epson prints and have brought it up in the Printing Forum. It's probably best to ask there.

thanks!

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If you are serious about black and white printing,useing Piezography quadinks is the only way to go (see link). Unlike the reformulated ballpoint pen inks used in most printers (with their VERY FALSE color fastness and long-life claims), these are base on carbon pigment. The system uses only certain Epson printers which must be dedicated to those gray scale inks (can't change back and forth between color inks). You use high quality rag board/paper as your print media (Crains,etc.). The look,feel,tonal range,and archive properties are very close to a traditional print. The cost can get quite high (and Epsons built in design feature of clogged heads doesn't help). SWAMP

I found that the most satisfactory way of getting a good B&W image from a coloured one was to use Channels. Open the Channels Palette (Window>Channels) If you then click on the Eye of the different channel so that just one channel appears with the best B&W image you can then delete the other channels by dragging them to the Dustbin.

usually, printers can use either color inks or black inks. Why not just get a black ink cartridge to print B&W?

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I have an Epson 2200 on the way. In researching the printer, I've learned that it has a problem with metamerism. The above link is on point. The below links may be of interest to you as well. We do have a printing forum here. http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000gsC http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=004SMd http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/epson_c80.shtml

If you're printing B+W a lot then I can recommend Lyson Quad black and small gamut inks. It might be wise to pop over to www.lyson.com and have a look. They have offices in the UK and US (Chicago) as well as Europe. Hope this helps