"Frank" wrote in message
Hi, got an old black and white photo that someone has asked me to patch up and print. I sorted the photo out, but despite making it greysacale and desaturating it, it prints a reddy brownish colour! 😉 Looks B&W on the screen, but won’t print B&W. Any kind soul any ideas or suggestions.
Thanks
If you have done that (made it greyscale) and it is printing in an off color (like C-41 B+W film sometimes can come back from the lab with a slight green or blue tint to it) then it sounds like a printer/monitor color calibration issue.
Have you tried actually scanning it straight to greyscale in lieu of scanning in as color and converting? (I have no idea if that would help, but it may)
I just took some images from a recent NASCAR race that I captured with a D100 and *painted* everything in several images B+W (but the car, leaving a full color car in an otherwise B+W image) and printed them out to great satisfaction, so conversion can work. I had no such problem with color cast so I can’t really tell you where to start other than to make sure that you monitor is setup right and that your printer profile for the particular paper you are using is up to date as well. Maybe if you started out in a different colorspace? I dunno, but I use Adobe 1998 from beginning to print (where my paper profiles take over). Screwy things tend to happen when I use any other space, mainly the various sRGB spaces, yuck! LOL!
