Pro-100 prints my B&W in sepia

[otava]

I have now struggeled with this for months. Cannot get desant B&W prints. They all turn out to be sepia or brownish. I print from Photo Shop Elements 11 using Print Studio Pro. Yes the B&W tag is checked. The only way would be to remove all the color cartridges, but then the thing does not print. Should I buy a separate dedicated B&W printer?

Thanks

[jrhoffman75]

Are you working from a color image that you want to print in B&W or are you trying to print an image you have converted to B&W in software?

[otava]

Yes I have and the images are originally B&W scanned fotos. Using Print Studio Pro and have check the B&W button. The print gives hint of brownish or pinkish shade.

[jrhoffman75]

The B&W option is for converting color to B&W, or when you want to print a B&W print and adjust the tone. Try unchecking that option and printing. I get very good results that way.

Here are manuals: https://www.cubbyusercontent.com/pl/Canon+Pro-100+Manuals/_9e886cddfbc04caa9248d99e17228c5b

[otava]

Thanks
Yes indeed there is a difference. B&W unchecked gives a sharper more deep black result. Now then after a long struggle to reach this comes the odd feeling when being able to compare those two results, do I nonetheless like the original one? But anyway thanks a lot.

[jrhoffman75]

You can also "tune" the print by printing the ring around. Color and B&W.

[dnickson]

Love my Pro 100 for years, but it recently turned on me and began printing my prized B&W (scanned from negatives, some 50 years old) with a muddy sepia tint. Gone were the sharp blacks and whites, the contrast, the print looking like it did on the monitor.

I tried cleaning the print head. Changed all the inks. Went outside, turned around three times and grunted real hard.

Nada.

Any suggestions, anyone?

Don the Novice

[jrhoffman75]

Try reinstalling the driver and then verify all in-driver settings. 

Print a standard test print like the Outbackphoto test print. 

[dnickson]

JR:

Many thanks for the reassuring response. Light at the end of the funnel.

I downloaded what I think is the Pro 100 driver (novice, remember?), and did the "Save" command, whereupon it went into the files someplace.

Question: does it do the rest (e.g., replace the defective driver) by itself, or is there another step? And I am not sure what is meant by "verify the driver". Sounds like a query of some kind, si?

Sorry to be such an ignoramus on this (e.g., my VCR still blinks "Midnight, Midnight").

Thanks,

DN

[jrhoffman75]

“Save” doesn’t sound right. What operating system are you using.