Re: B&W accuracy on the 1200

[Jerry Olson <jerryolson@rrv.net>]

I've tried this, but I always get a crossover. The highlights go cyan, and the
shadows go red. Are yours neutral?

Jerry

"Gary L. Hunt" wrote:

> At 11:09 AM 2/17/2000 -0600, Jerry Olson wrote:
> >Andy this works beautifully except for one thing. The Epson Original Black ink
> >has a very undesireable green cast to it, and makes for a very unattractive
> >print on the Dual Sided Matte paper that is my standard. I don't like any glossy
> >paper, but would be willing to try other matte papers IF I could get rid of the
> >green cast. Unfortunately, you cannot add a small amount of magenta in photoshop
> >to a black and white image.
>
> I realize this isn't quite what you mean, but you can add magenta
> to a B&W image if you convert it to RGB.  (I normally derive my
> B&W images from color slides using the Channel Mixer, so I
> usually keep them in RGB mode anyway--I have more options
> when it comes to printing, including exactly this sort of tweaking.)
>
> Gary Hunt <glh@srv.net>
>
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