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gerardf
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject: Printing duotone images |
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Hi All,
I'm having a some problems printing from PS7 to my Epson R800. Printing colour works OK and I get quite good results.
The problem I'm having is this:-
1. I scan a B/W neg from my Epson3200 scanner (with tranny adapter!) and scanning in B/W 8 bit mode.
2. After suitable manipulation, I print the B/W image to the R800 and I get a greenish cast even though the printer is being sent a greyscale image from Photoshop. Any ideas as to why this would be?
If I go into the printer settings and tell the printer to print greyscale, I get a B/W print, but I'd have thought I wouldn't need to do this. I didn't have to with my old Epson 760.
This problem precludes me from printing duotone prints.
Oh, by the way, I'm using an LG 1740B LCD monitor.
Cheers,
Gerard |
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teddc
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
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Location: Belmont North Australia
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As I see it Duotones are best suited for offset printing as it produces printing plates from these files, one for each colour. Desktop printers aren't suited for printing Duotones to their best advantage
ted
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gerardf
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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Thanks for the reply, I'll try some other method to impart my fancy skills....such as they are!!
I still don't understand why I get the colour cast on the printer when printing B/W, though.
I was looking elsewhere on this forum and was thinking that it may have something to do with the calibration of my LCD monitor. Someone else was having trouble with a sepia tone on their B/W when printing from an LCD screen.
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cbadland
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
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Getting BW prints from an ink jet printer without a cast takes some work. The printer uses all its inks, not just the black ink. Image quality would be very poor if only the black ink were used.
Ted is right that a true duotone is an offset process. You can only emulate it on your printer. The new line of Epsons use three shades of black ink, and supposedly yield great BW results. Haven’t seen any prints though.
Make sure your PS Color Management is set up correctly. Be sure you have the proper paper profile selected and that you are not double-color managing.
I’m on a Mac, so step-by-step would be different for you to turn off your printers CM. Maybe a PC user here can elaborate on the details. Do a Google search with key words like Photoshop, Color Management, Epson… you should get some detailed info. |
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