b/w printed images apper greeney blue? help!!!

[deedspender]

hi !!
please can any one help me get true blacks and greys?

i'm using a canon i865 bubble jet printer, all my coloured images that i have printed appear perfect in colour and exactly the same as the monitor image, but when it comes to a printed image of a b/w the they appear a greeny/blue while the monitor shows perfect black and greys.

could it be the paper? i use any standard colour photo paper !!
could it be the ink mix? ive messed around increasing/ decreasing / mixing colours, but this only appears to darken or lighten the image!!

please please give me your thoughts!!
regards!!
claire!!:cry:

[Baadil]

What type of printer are you using? If you are using an inkjet printer that has both color and BW ink as seperate cartridges, then try changing the printer settings so it does not use the color one when you are printing BW images.You can't really get true Blacks from using the color inks.

[deedspender]

What type of printer are you using? If you are using an inkjet printer that has both color and BW ink as seperate cartridges, then try changing the printer settings so it does not use the color one when you are printing BW images.You can't really get true Blacks from using the color inks.

thanx!!!
i'm using a canon i865 bubble jet printer, it uses 5 seperate colour inks and the images were printed in the printers grayscale mode.

please let me know any more surgestions!!
claire!!

[Longwatcher]

It could be the paper. What kind are you using?
It could be the ink. Are you using Canon OEM ink?
It could be the montior/printer profile
It could be how your eyes saw the color print versus how they see the monitor.

And before I forget try selecting monocrome or greyscale printing if you have that option in the printer preferences.

The most likely cause is the ink/paper interaction. The best way to correct this to the extent that it can be corrected is to add red/decrease cyan or if like my problems add some yellow. (Note if correcting using colors you must print in color, not greyscale)

Remember that your printer is designed to print color, it may not be able to output good black and white. Technically it can't output good B+W because of the way it works, but you should be able to get close enough.

Just my experience with s9000 and i9900 on BCI-6 ink set (same ink type i865 uses) on various papers.
also see:
http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=50423

Hope it helps.