Hecate said:
Different question to the one asked by the OP who stated that his
her
images didn't turn out well when he only used black.
I never said anything of the sort, I said the exact opposite, it was
only when I said "use black ink only" that I finally got acceptable
prints.
Which, of course,
is due to the fact that only using black *doesn't* give you the ray
gradations when using the full gamut of inks.
The problem is that I can't get the printer to JUST USE BLACK without
it snarling that it supposedly doens't give good results. I set the
color management to monochrome/gray, but it STILL USED COLORED INKS and
still produced ugly color casts on the images.
You say it's impossible to produce good b/w prints without using color.
I disagree, it worked fine for hundreds of years in the darkroom, and
it worked fine with computer printers before we had color printers and
all they had was black ink to work with.
My printer has both black and light black inks. I was using Epson
inks, and tried both Epson and Costco (Ilford) papers (at the
suggestion of the Epson technician), tried both glossy and semi-gloss
papers, etc. and was unable to get ANY settings to produce crisp b/w
prints EXCEPT by checking "use black ink only" and getting that warning
that the prints wouldn't come out OK. What irks me is that only when I
ignored that warning did I get prints that were BLACK and WHITE instead
of BROWN MUD and PINK MUD and BLUE MUD.
I'm going down to my father's this week, I'll take along my scanner and
scan some of the images from his album to show you what I mean.
jc
