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Hi,
could any one give me some advice on digital black & white printing,i have my prints lab printed at the moment, black and white prints always come back with a colour cast on them. We had a print folio at the camera club in the week, these all looked good quality with no casts.
Do most people print mono at home or is lab printing an option?
I am thinking of buying an Epson R2880 to do just Black and White what do members think?

thanks in advance

Ray
 
Getting a good B&W from a lab printing on colour paper is a good test of the lab - as if anything is off with the process you'll get a cast. Also, B&W prints on colour paper can suffer from metamarism - where the colour will change depending on the light used to illuminate the print.

At my own lab we have an option when you order prints to get a neutral (or cool or warm print) where we apply a subtle correction to remove the slight green cast you see in B&W prints under some artificial light.

Prints done with inkjet can be a little different - as some printers have multiple shades of black and different blacks for gloss and mat papers. There are a couple of very specialist conversions that can be done to inkjet printers to print with up to 6 shades of black/gray which give astounding results - and a couple of labs will print on traditional B&W paper.
 
I have the canon pro9000 mk2 printer and get first class B&W prints. my opinion is that people don't use the proper settings in the printer driver and thats why they get a colour cast.
 
Hi , if your going down the new printer route why do you not consider
the Epson photo 3000 printer. I own one of these and it has dedicated
black inks. You could cut costs by using Photospeed inks with the new cis system.
Just a thought, hope it helps.
ps the cartridges are twice the size of normal ones and there is no tubes
to worry about a realy great set up
Dave
 
I got a secondhand Epson r2400 recently and am running it on genuine Epson inks pending either a CIS or possible 'upgrade' to a 2880 or 3000 and getting a CIS for that. The black and white capability is excellent, exhibition quality with no cast. The comparisons I am reading suggest that all three of these Epson printers on results, colour or black and white, are indistinguishable. Of course there are differences on features.

I originally ran the r2400 on compatable inks but the results were completely off on colour printing and with a magenta cast on black and white. Funnily enough, now I am using the genuine inks, the choice of paper doesn't seem to make much difference to the final colours/tones.
 
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