Black &amp; White Photo Printing: What are your experiences printing B&amp;W's with this printer?
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I have owned two of these printers: Epson 1400: one for three years and one for one. Why two - well here's the story. I did not have good results with the EPSON ink and printer. I tried different ICC profiles, I fiddled with photoshop and it became a problem. I shoot a lot of B/W infrared photos digitally - and I like the B/W look. But I'd print them out and sometimes they'd have a green tinge and then a purplish ting. Sometimes they'd be perfect. I long ago with this printer gave up on EPSON ink, cartridge by cartridge it was very expensive. So I got a bulk feed Lyson system - which works great. Still with the six colors (only one black). Still with the B/W print issues though. So I looked on the net, carefully and bought a B/W bulk system with six B/W inks. The link is here. https://carts.mercurycart.com/usa/files/index.html?action=add&code=QBT14004 NOW the printer produces wonderful prints to my eye. I use the ICC profiles and carefully use Photoshop because there are traps with in the printing menus - you need to let Photoshop do the color adjustment for instance (not the printer) and learn how to alter the ICC profiles correctly (I did this wrong for a while). Alas it took time and reading - but with my now six shades of B/W ink - this printer is fantastic for printing black. Seriously less expensive than the new B/W printers too. (I'd count myself as a serious amateur only here perhaps a pro would have a different view.)
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I use "gray scale" a lot... for b&w; printing. In fact, whenever I use b&w; it uses ALL of my color cartridges. Guess that's how Canon makes money.
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I've had best luck if I use the Epson printer control panel and set it for "Grayscale" only. It seems this gives the best B &W; results. It still is not like using Kodabromide fiber paper and Dektol (!!!)...but it's pretty good. Your Mileage May Vary...!!
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I've never used it on photo's but I'm guessing that it would not be ideal. I use this printer as my everyday printer for color and black and white.
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this printer does not use color cartridges to print B&W--; at least not by default. If you are low or out of B&W; ink the printer will ask you if you want to use the color cartridges to create black. This was a major selling point for me because I used to hate how HP printers required color to print B&W.;
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Does anyone know how many Black and White pages you can print per B&W; cartridge with the MP830?
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I've had best luck if I use the Epson printer control panel and set it for "Grayscale" only. It seems this gives the best B &W results. It still is not like using Kodabromide fiber paper and Dektol (!!!)...but it's pretty good. Your Mileage May Vary...!!
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I have not. I have printed out several photos and not had a problem. It has been almost a year for some of them, and they still look as great as they did when I printed them. I use the best photo paper and print with the highest quality. I do not know why the age of your paper would make a difference though.
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Thanks for responding! In spite of the lack of reviews, I've decided to give this printer a try ... I'll let you know how that choice turns out!
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Margaret, the Lexmark X9575 can be used in B & W only or full color. Beyond that, I would say this printer has been an excellent buying choice in that it is fairly easy on ink and was reasonably priced to purchase. Quality is not super on photo printing, but that isn't why I bought it.
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It prints only in black and white - not color. I think :-) I am very happy with mine, if that's any help. FAST and efficient.
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Kevin,Bought Pixma-100 after bloody divorce from Epson R-1800. Only print B&W;'s on 325g. Hahnemuhle FA Baryta paper; excellent results. Have read that fine art papers (absorbent) do not do as well with dye inks. Overall I am delighted with printer. Good luck.
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Sorry i cant answer that, I do alot of printing in B&W; and some in color. I don't keep track
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I agree its a great printer. works with Mac OS 10.9.2 when I am on that network which is primarily windows 7 & 8 machines. I have had no issues printing from either microsoft office or pages/numbers. It is a higher speed / B&W; printer that I think does well on shades of grey images. I also have a Brother 9840 color printer that I have no issues connecting to, scanning or printing to in a wireless configuration as well as a Brother 2270, also wireless. The 6180 has, in my opinion, the best performance/price ratio of the B&W; printers.
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I have printed in only black and white. Just now, I removed the 3 color cartridges, and it would not print. May be missing something, but I think all the cartridge slots must be filled.
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Pretty sure you still have to buy the color cartridges and install so the machine responds, but as another post said, just select black & white printing.
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I have this printer and the photo quality depends a lot on the paper you use. Use one of the recommended HP papers and the photos will look surprisingly good. I also have a big, expensive Canon Pixma Pro 9500 Photo printer that drives me insane. It goes through the 10 color cartridges so quickly (they dry out) I'm constantly replacing them at great expense, so I actually prefer to use my HP printer for most photos.