Prints seem to display a green tone

<p>Hi there, new to this site so hello!<br /><br /><br />My first ever question is...I am printing using a Canon Pixma Pro 9000 MKii and the prints seem to exhibit a green tone. This is especially more noticeable on black and white photographs and slightly desaturated ones. Colour photographs do not seem to suffer as much from this issue though it can happen.<br>

Is there something i am doing wrong? It just appears to be this slight issue, get rid of the green tone and they will be spot on. I do not heavily process my photographs nor do I like to. I calibrate my monitor monthly.<br>

2 other details, I shoot on Canon 6D and operate Yosemite.<br>

Hope you can help!</p>

<p>Gene</p>

<p>first suggestions would be to run a nozzle check (since it may be that magenta is clogged) and then print a standard test image (that will eliminate your calibration etc) (google -> outback test image)</p>

<p>Hi Howard,</p>

<p>I have done several nozzle checks and test prints. I will try that and let you know. I am still a little bit a gasp as to why BW cannot simply be printed as BW lol. I have had other prints sent to an exhibition printers to confirm whether it is me or the printer. They came back as seen on screen so it is definitely the printer. </p>

<p>You might want to try this, I read it somewhere recently and made a note of it as I am new to digital printing and thought it made sense.</p>

<p>If the image file is black and white to begin with then when you print make sure you uncheck the box that says "Black and White".<br>

The checkbox is in the printer settings and it seems counter-intuitive but having this checked will tell the printer that the image is color but have the printer convert it to Black and White.<br>

The issue is if the image is already Black and White the printer will be confused and use color inks to create some of the blacks.<br>

If the image is color originally and you want to print it in Black and WHite then use your photo editing software to convert it to Black and White before printing and then make sure the checkbox mentioned above is not checked.</p>

 

<p>Unfortunately, it's (likely) part and parcel to the ChromaLife 100 dye ink set your Pro9000 uses. You may be able to minimize it with a custom profile, but the easier, free solution is to apply a tone to the file before printing. (Just like the bad old days of first-generation pigment printing.) The driver's greyscale mode <strong>may</strong> help to a degree if you really don't want toned prints.</p>

<p>B&Ws on the Pro9000 and its kin are greeny even on the best of days with proper workflow. The black's not neutral and the inks have some pretty funky metameric failure, and that really comes to the surface as you strip color out of the equation.</p>

<p>Green output can also be a sign you're missing a step in your color management workflow, but the fact color prints look fine suggests it's just the usual ChromaLife ink issue.</p>

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<p>B&Ws on the Pro9000 and its kin are greeny even on the best of days with proper workflow.</p>

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<p>I have not noticed this with the Chromalife, although I have a Pro100. I can't notice any color cast in tungsten or day light. Doesn't mean there isn't any, but it is very slight that I can't see it. But of course the 9000 is a different machine and it may have a different way of producing black and white. Personally I think there is something wrong with your profiling, or you have a blocked nozzle. </p>

<p>The Pro-100 is a different beast. It uses a completely different inkset (ChromaLife 100<strong>+</strong> — that little plus sign is important), and a newer, much better, completely different printing engine. Its B&Ws, yes, look fantastic.</p>