Photorealistic Adaptation

Color management is indeed important and an advantage in colored prints. Epson Stylus Photo 2200 is a printer that is suitable for producing black and white prints with the Ultrachrome inks. The Epson’s Enhanced Archival Matte is also good but the problem is that printing with No Color Adjustment which is under PrintSpace is not allowed and offered as an option. The print outputs are also dark with a slight warm tone. A print of a 21 step grayscale wedge was not that stunning which I concluded that separation of tones was not available in the 95-100% region where it is expected to have the shadows applied.

These results may be disappointing nut this behavior can be minimized by using the Photorealistic option with the use of Color Controls which falls into the Color Management. The use of this setting will allow you to reduce the color gamut. This feature and option is very ideal and advantageous to black and white printing.

With Photorealistic, the look and appearance of the prints and the grayscale wedge, the tone is observed to have a neutral tone. The prints are said to have achieved a well balanced fluorescent lighting of 5000K. Color can be affected and changed due to metamerism in which colors are changed under a different type of lighting. Although this printing method needs attention, it is suitable and best for good black and white prints.