Printing Black/White

[emkayess65]

Hi, do I have to do anything special to print black/white?

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1f7oTF73m9cxXBZuHjTdX1XvPoGDZ0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1f7oTF73m9cxXBZuHjTdX1XvPoGDZ0)

This is a scan of a b/w film frame.
I scanned in RGB and it looks allright on the monitor.
It prints with a pink tinge. Do I have to change anything?
I took a b/w film/lab course and this didn't get printed because of finals took priority.

My printer is new and I'm not familiar with it yet but I don't think it has a special setting for b/w.
Any thoughts?
TIA
mks

[Codebreaker]

It's not uncommon for many desktop inkjets to have problems printing B&W. Many of them result in a slight colour caste and it's usually a limitation of the ink system. Can you tell us what printer you have?

Colin

[emkayess65]

Hi Colin, thanks for your reply.
My printer is bottomline basic Canon Pixma 1800.
The printed manual had no information, but did mention the help in the program.
I haven't had a chance to investigate yet.
Bummer.
I am clearing out leftovers from my class.
There are several frames that look kinda intersting.
I was hoping to scan and print.
Guess not.
Thanks for helping.
mks

[Sanhodo]

Normally the Canon software will tell you how to print b&w from a color jpg. Take some time and get familiar with your new printer. It's worth your time to do it.:)

[Codebreaker]

Marie....

I have a Canon i850 and IP4500 and neither have specific support options for B&W. The i850 always produced B&W images with a slight green caste. I haven't tried B&W on the ip4500.

In looking at your image it appears to have a slight Blue cast on screen. You can check this by calling up the info panel (F8) and looking at the mix of RGB. You'll see the Blue channel is a little higher in places than the R&G.

What might improve things is to try desaturating the image. Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and then move the Saturation Slide all the way to the left.

Colin

[emkayess65]

Hi Colin, you were right. There was a blue cast.
Learned something new - what the info palette is for.
Also learned that the printer deposited all sorts of stuff on my computer.
I assumed, because it is a basic printer and there was actually a paper
manual of 66 pages that was all there was.
Found all sorts of stuff --- my head hurts --- I'm not the greatest with this.
Also reviewed some scanning information.
I do have a film scanner - HP, not so good.

Talked to my photography teacher. She said why not take the class again.
Use the darkroom and print good stuff.
Might consider that. I have the camera, have the book, tuition is free for
senior citizen. I just pay a registration fee. Now if only photopaper was
cheaper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Colin, thank you for your help.
It has sent me into exploring the printer and scanner -- should have done that
right away.
mks

[TonyW]

I thought the Canon's had a box to check for grayscale printing. If so you might want to try that.

Tony

[Codebreaker]

Tony.....

They do have a checkbox to print a Coloured Document as Grayscale, but I think all this does is just take out all the colour. I use it for saving colour inks when I don't need all the fancy colours in a Word or PDF for example.

I confess I haven't tried it for B&W images but I can't imagine it would make for a good image. Any volunteers to try it :-)

Colin

[elwoodsusanm]

I have E 1400 A3 printer and whilst it gives an excellent print if I try B & W I get a greeny cast. Have you any suggestions for improvement?:)

[Codebreaker]

Sue.....

Again I think that's a limitation of the printer. To get dedicated B&W support you need to go to something like the R2400.

Colin

[Wendy]

Last week I tried to print out some B&W images and mine came up with a green cast ... I checked my inks and the Magenta was low.

Once I changed that everything was fine ... so its always worth checking the inks :)

Wendy

[elwoodsusanm]

Thank you:)