printing BW

[Freddy2]

I know its not a directly related question for this forum,
but if anyone has any suggestions it would be great....

I have a 2100/2200 epson printer and am printing black and white prints, they come out beautifully indoors in incandescant light but have huge green cast in daylight. Does anyone know if i can get my prints to be the same indoors and out like normal lab black and white.

Im shooting these on the s2 in bw mode and in raw .
would really appreciate if anyone can help me on this one

[apb]

Try the various articles over at Luminous Landscape (http://www.luminous-landscape.com) - lots of good articles on B+W.

The color shift is something called metamerism (if I'm remembering correctly) - not much you can do about it... just remember that it really only matters where the print will be displayed... usually this means indoors under incandescent.

What ink and papers are you using? Are you profiling? Have you tried different papers?

I have a 2200, and have not seen any big shifts... the older 2000 had mega problems with this..

my own 2¢ about the 2200 and B&W: i use the matte black ink with the Enhanced Matte Paper, and I convert my B&W images to duotones for printing on the 2200. I use the printflow described in detail at the luminous landscape - the only diff is i use duotone instead of rgb.

As for image capture - try shooting color images in .raf, processing them and getting a good base color image, and then use the channel mixer to do your black and white... again a good tutorial is found at Luminous Landscape.

Or, check out Pixel Genius's PhotoKit (http://www.pixelgenius.com) - about 150$ different actions for $50. These include a great selection of "B&W filters" for converting color to B&W that are analogous to wratten gels.

cheers

andy