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Monochrome Printing
First the good news...
If you plan to print monochrome images using colour inks then profiles can help with the smoothness of
gradations of tone and are likely to extend the range of tones that you can print.
Profiles can also go some way to controlling colour casts.
The bad news is...
No printer profile can compensate when the inks themselves have a colour cast.
Older ink formulations are more likely to show a colour cast,
e.g. original K series inks for Epson 2100s. Newer inksets tend to be
closer to neutral. The K3 inks used in the Epson 2400 have very
good neutrality.
If you want true monochrome accuracy and you're printing a lot of images then you're
probably better off investing
in a second printer and running a dedicated monochrome inkset such as Lyson's
Quad-Black system
(see Marrutt for UK supplies)
or Permajet's MONOChromePro inks.
An alternative approach is to use a RIP such as
Quadtone RIP that uses a subset of inks.
You can control which inks get used and in which percentage and thus hopefully correct
the colour cast. This product works better on printers with more that one black ink channel
(i.e. uses black and gray inks).
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