Accuracy of B & W bubble jet printing

[Robyn]

I've just printed out some B & W photos on my bubble jet printer. They have a very slight brown and white look about them rather than a pure black and white. Is there anything I can do to make the printed pics more accurate? My printer is a Canon Pixma iP5000. The colour printing always looks very accurate to what is on the screen. Thanks for any advice that you may care to offer.

[scrapperjlc]

Does your printer settings have an actual B&W setting? It may still be printing in color to represent your B&W if you are printing in Color mode. See if there is a B&W setting somewhere? :confused:

[lindajay]

Robyn, I'm looking forward to hearing what everyone tells you, because my Canon printer does the same thing. I've struggled with it.

[Codebreaker]

Many low end inkjet printers - and I'm not running down these excellent printers - have problems creating true B&W images unless there is a specific B&W function.

Most of them create B&W using all the colour inks and this often leads to a colour cast in the final print. Unfortunately I don't know anyway around this.

Colin

[Robyn]

Many low end inkjet printers - and I'm not running down these excellent printers - have problems creating true B&W images unless there is a specific B&W function. Colin


I rather suspected that this might be so. There is a grayscale option you can tick. I tried this but it didn't look any different. There is also a colour balance manual adjustment with sliders for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black and one Intensity slider. I'm not quite sure what to do with these (if anything) or whether an adjustment here would make any difference.

Thanks for your replies.

[Carbone]

Several months ago, I suggested (on this board) to someone else having B&W issue to make a test using the printer's black & white setting, rather the using PSE and their computer (albeit Mac or Windows).

If you have a printer capable of direct printing (i.e. no computer required), see if you have this option. On my Epson, I have had superb results with that.

Ray

[Robyn]

Thanks Ray, but unfortunately my little printer does not have this option, I can't do direct printing.