Black and White printing problem

[sam3]

Hi, I’m trying to print a B&W image on my canon ip8750 printer,but each time it hs a brown cast.

I have tried both “printer”and “sync “ options , but the result is always the same.

Some detailed guidance would be gratefully received.

[Dan C]

Hi sam3,

Sorry to hear you're having trouble. Could you please confirm the following:

Are you using Windows or Mac?

Have you installed the latest drivers for your IP8750?

Is your printer set to B&W only mode, or is the image itself B&W?

If possible, could you provide a copy of the file so we can look into this for you? It's possible that an incorrect colour profile has been set for the document, causing the brown colour cast.

[v_kyr]

Well it always needs some try outs & testing for B&W printing to get somehow usable results. See for example this video here.

[sam3]

Hi Dan C,

I am using a Mac.

I would assume I have the latest drivers as I have only had the printer 8 months.

Attached is the file Im trying to print'

[gdenby]

The manual mentions that greyscale printing can be adjusted between cool and warm, which range from somewhat bluish to brownish. Checked that?

[v_kyr]

7 minutes ago, gdenby said:

The manual mentions that greyscale printing can be adjusted between cool and warm, which range from somewhat bluish to brownish. Checked that?

Page 212 and 213 etc.

[sam3]

Sorry Guys,

this does not give me the solution I’m looking for,

viz, to select “sync”and have AP output to the printer.

There must be something I have set wrong!

For your information I have contacted Canon.

Their answer is to send me “My Image Garden” download which does

allow me to print in B&W.

However, I don’t want to have to adopt a further process.

 

ANY IDEAS DAN ?

 

[firstdefence]

Have you set the colour format to Greyscale 8bit? 

If you do this when you assign a colour profile there will be a greyscale D50 option that is automatically assigned.

 

[sam3]

Thanks “firstdefence” selecting “ Greyscale 8bit in colour profile certainly seems to do the job.

However, I really don’t think I should have to do that when I have a B&W image on screen.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, sam3 said:

Thanks “firstdefence” selecting “ Greyscale 8bit in colour profile certainly seems to do the job.

However, I really don’t think I should have to do that when I have a B&W image on screen.

Technically, images like yours contain various shades of grey, not just black & white. More to the point, if the file includes an embedded color space ("Color Format" in Affinity terminology) in its metadata, Affinity will open it using that color space.

For example, I opened the file you attached to your post in Affinity Photo, set its color format to Greyscale (8 bit) & exported it as this png:

If you drag it to your Mac's desktop, you should get a file named DSC_0088(1).png there. Select (highlight) it & press CMD+i to open the Finder info window for it. You should see in the "More info" section that its Color space is Gray. Now open the file & Affinity Photo & check its color format.

[billtils]

I printed the same image on my Canon Pro 100S and Epson XP-960.  When sending to the Canon I got what you see in the first screen shot (check box for Black and White Photo Print) and a somewhat different one when sending to the Epson.  The Canon needed a click on the Quality and Media dropdown and the Epson a click on the Range and Scale opened a dropdown with an option for Black & White.

Although different, each produced an accetable result.