What is the best way to print black and white on a color laser printer?

[tom_kat]

<p>I am trying to make a hand made book out of my black and white photographs. In Photoshop CS6 there is a "platinum" setting. This setting makes my black and white photos look great on screen but if I print them in color I get "magenta" prints. If I print in black and white they look flat. Any suggestions. I read that you should print the black and white prints on the color setting to give them a "tint". I'm looking at prints in a Cartier Bresson book, I guess there's no way to get them to look that good! Any help appreciated. Thanks.</p>

[Glenn McCreery]

<p>Since you are using Photoshop, you can get Nik plug-ins for free. Nik Silver Efex Pro has a wide variety of tinting options. You do not state what printer you are using, but I have not seen any laser printers that will deliver the quality prints that a good inkjet printer will produce. And, as Andrew Rodney will tell you, using a calibrated monitor is critical for getting "what you see is what you get".</p>

[tom_kat]

<p>Thanks, I played around with the settings more and used the Nik software to "tint" in green. Works great, thanks so much. I have a Brother laser printer, HL-4040CDN. With color its too flat, I haven't found a way to make the colors as bright as my old laser printer(KonicaMinolta). However for this book with black and white images it should work fine thanks to your suggestions.</p>

[Ed_Ingold]

<p>I calibrate my Xerox printer using an XRite Eye-One system. When I print B&W, I do so in RGB color using the print profile produced in the first step, rather than black only. This produces a slightly warm tone similar to Kodak Polycontrast, with better range and coverage. I can use the B&W options in Lightroom to produce different effects with reasonable accuracy.</p>

<p>Some printers have a utility to physically calibrate the color. It's probably best to do this before creating a print profile.</p>

<p>This is a recent photo, taken in color, rendered and printed in B&W (RGB) from Lightroom, and scanned in RGB for PNET.</p>

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