Help Printing in Black & White

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david_condit
Sep 16, 2006
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I’m having trouble printing in black & white, using PS7 and an Epson printer. The image looks fine on the monitor, but prints with almost a sepia look on my Epson Photo 800. I printed from a different application and it came out fine (no sepia look). So, I’m guessing that it’s a setting in PS. I’m using Windows XP. Seems like at one time it printed fine, but somewhere along the line I must’ve changed a setting. Any ideas? Thanks!

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John Joslin
Sep 16, 2006
How about setting the printer preferences to Black Ink instead of colour?
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sgfan3
Sep 16, 2006
That doesn’t work very well. When I convert to B&W using desaturate or gray scale, I always get some color cast that I can’t remove. There’s got to be a better way. One of you wizards out there must know how to do this conversion properly.

Chris

"John Joslin" wrote in message
How about setting the printer preferences to Black Ink instead of colour?
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Anthony_Hagarty
Sep 22, 2006
I also am having problems printing in black and white. I have recently had a new hard drive and had to re instal my CS2 in so doing I have lost my settings and need to reset. I have sorted the colour but can not get b/w. On screen perfect but prints out with the black replaced by blue. Very attractive but not what I want.
Windows XP home ed. Epson Stylus DX3800 and CS2. Any suggestions will be very welcome. The printer preferences will not set to black ink when set to photo papers.
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chrisjbirchall
Sep 22, 2006
You need to go through all your colour management settings again from scratch, starting with your monitor profile. Use Adobe Gamma if you have a CRT, or if you have an LCD monitor, your third party profiling software/gadget.

Then make sure you have the correct printer profiles for the media/ink combination you are using.

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Anthony_Hagarty
Sep 23, 2006
Thanks chrisjbirchall. Have just visited your link and am going to be spending some time there. Just what I wanted.
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