On Behalf Of Becky Hill > Hi there, > > I'm struggling to get good black and white prints from my > epson 2100.
Hello Becky, Have you tried the grey balancer software? If you are in the UK, it is sold with the printer, and is designed to help you neutralise your greyscales. Having said that, whilst the magazine reviews of that software tended to love it, the number of people I have spoken to who simply can not get it to work to their taste is <quite a few>. And then there's one more problem (that you may or may not be seeing) - the inks suffer from metamerism / illuminant metamerism / colour inconstancy (choose your terminology of choice) which in translation means "The prints may look neutral under one light source, but might look pink or green under another". One solution that we have for all the above is the ImagePrint RIP software that changes the way the Epson original inks are used to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, this nasty change in colour in different lights. Plus, although the profiles supplied with the system are only 'generic' they seem to work very well indeed for many of our customers. It works with colour too. This combination of Epson 2100 / 4000 / 7600 etc + ImagePrint + Epson original inks is the only current combination we can recommend if you want colour and monochrome output from one printer. If you are in the UK or Western Europe, we can send out fully working demo software, if you are in the US, try ColorByte Software. http://www.mwords.co.uk/pages/contactIPDemo.htm (for demo or sample request) http://www.mwords.co.uk/pages/imageprint/index.html (for the FAQs) I do hope this assists you, Nij Nigel Rheam www.mwords.co.uk Digital Fine Art =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
