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1. Re: My B&W prints have too much green how do I correct this please?
NeilG1217 Jan 3, 2014 10:52 PM (in response to Maddiex)Printing B&W on a color printer is actually a difficult task, which was not handled well even by good consumer-level printers for several generations of printers. Briefly, the proper balance of the four colors of ink (CMYK) has to be maintained over thousands of combinations. You may have to upgrade to a new printer to get good results.
However, I can think of three things to check. 1) If your images look good on your monitor, but not on the prints, the problem is probably that monitor is not calibrated. That would cause the images to look good on the monitor, when in fact the files are too green. If that's the problem, you need to calibrate the monitor. 2) If the images look good from some angles, but green from others, your printer has a problem called metamerism, which means it can probably never print B&W properly. 3) If your monitor is calibrated, and there is no metamerism, then the printer and inks you are using are probably not a good enough quality to handle B&W on their own. However, you could adjust the color of your files to reduce the green channel, until you find a tone you can live with. That's not a great solution, but it may be all that's available from that printer.
Good luck. HTH.
Neil
