For sometime now, I have been experiencing some issues with my black and white prints from my Epson R3880. The issues are that they appear to exhibit a warmish tone.
I am quite savvy when it comes to printer settings and programs so I know its nothing I have done in software. I mainly use the ABW but I am getting the same results if I let Photoshop Manage the Colors and print through an Epson ICC profile or one that I have personally created with the X-Rite Color Miunki.
Just recently, I got a friend to print the same image on his R3800 which he uses ImagePrint by Colorbyte and I was amazed just how neutral everything looked compared to mine. This got me wondering if there could be something wrong with my printer so I downloaded the Demo version of ImagePrint 10 and even under the heavy watermark they plaster over the image, the tones look much more neutral than than my original version.
Surely, this means that my printer is working does it not ? or does ImagePrint not even touch the Epson driver ?
I am using a Mac and under system preferences this is what the driver version is reporting.
Here is a scan of a test file through the ABW driver using the Dark Tone
Here is the same image printed from ImagePrint by Colorbyte
At the moment, I am at a complete loss as to why this is happening, and I am at the stage whether to either invest in ImagePrint or whether the new P800 would eliminate this issue.
Any thoughts
Ian
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