From: Joe on
Epson R1800 B&W printing.

When printing colour the printer is near screen accurate for the print.

Yet when a conversion to B&W through Photoshop there is a green cast and
even with full amount of magenta dialed in still shows a cast even to
the point a magenta cast comes through.

My suggestion has been to do a head alignment.

Whats the best way of correcting this cast as it just can't be dialing
in colours.

Thanks

From: John McWilliams on
Joe wrote:
> Epson R1800 B&W printing.
>
> When printing colour the printer is near screen accurate for the print.
>
> Yet when a conversion to B&W through Photoshop there is a green cast and
> even with full amount of magenta dialed in still shows a cast even to
> the point a magenta cast comes through.
>
> My suggestion has been to do a head alignment.
>
> Whats the best way of correcting this cast as it just can't be dialing
> in colours.

Did you convert to greyscale? Or is it a desat. RGB?
Head aligning would seem to be an odd suggestion for a color cast.

--
john mcwilliams
From: Joe on
John McWilliams wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>> Epson R1800 B&W printing.
>>
>> When printing colour the printer is near screen accurate for the print.
>>
>> Yet when a conversion to B&W through Photoshop there is a green cast
>> and even with full amount of magenta dialed in still shows a cast even
>> to the point a magenta cast comes through.
>>
>> My suggestion has been to do a head alignment.
>>
>> Whats the best way of correcting this cast as it just can't be dialing
>> in colours.
>
> Did you convert to greyscale? Or is it a desat. RGB?
> Head aligning would seem to be an odd suggestion for a color cast.
>

Conversion was in photoshop cs4 to B&W which is still an RGB 8bit image.

Its not converted as in mode convert to grey scale.
From: John McWilliams on
Joe wrote:
> John McWilliams wrote:
>> Joe wrote:
>>> Epson R1800 B&W printing.
>>>
>>> When printing colour the printer is near screen accurate for the print.
>>>
>>> Yet when a conversion to B&W through Photoshop there is a green cast
>>> and even with full amount of magenta dialed in still shows a cast
>>> even to the point a magenta cast comes through.
>>>
>>> My suggestion has been to do a head alignment.
>>>
>>> Whats the best way of correcting this cast as it just can't be
>>> dialing in colours.
>>
>> Did you convert to greyscale? Or is it a desat. RGB?
>> Head aligning would seem to be an odd suggestion for a color cast.
>>
>
> Conversion was in photoshop cs4 to B&W which is still an RGB 8bit image.
>
> Its not converted as in mode convert to grey scale.

Kinda what I suspected. Try converting one to grey scale, then see if
you rid yourself of the color cast.

Using Epson inks?

--
john mcwilliams
From: Joe on
John McWilliams wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>> John McWilliams wrote:
>>> Joe wrote:
>>>> Epson R1800 B&W printing.
>>>>
>>>> When printing colour the printer is near screen accurate for the print.
>>>>
>>>> Yet when a conversion to B&W through Photoshop there is a green cast
>>>> and even with full amount of magenta dialed in still shows a cast
>>>> even to the point a magenta cast comes through.
>>>>
>>>> My suggestion has been to do a head alignment.
>>>>
>>>> Whats the best way of correcting this cast as it just can't be
>>>> dialing in colours.
>>>
>>> Did you convert to greyscale? Or is it a desat. RGB?
>>> Head aligning would seem to be an odd suggestion for a color cast.
>>>
>>
>> Conversion was in photoshop cs4 to B&W which is still an RGB 8bit image.
>>
>> Its not converted as in mode convert to grey scale.
>
> Kinda what I suspected. Try converting one to grey scale, then see if
> you rid yourself of the color cast.
>
> Using Epson inks?
>
ok ill try

yes epson inks with Ilford paper with profiles.