Printing Greyscale pictures on my Canon S820

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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:31:34 -0000, "Mick." <mrcycleuk@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> I have found all my negatives that I had taken around 1960. They had been
>put away, and I thought lost. Anyhow I have scanned them in, but am, having
>problems trying to print them as greyscale in my Canon S820 6 colour
>printer. Under advice I have been adjusting the mixers in the printer set
>up, but still get a green tint to the photos. I have been told that there
>are available a set of ink tanks (not Canon) especially to overcome this,
>has anyone information on this please?

Not me.

>I have tried printing them with the printer set to greyscale, but it seems
>more like a photo copy.

I've done this too on an Epson, you MUST use color setting on the
printer driver, it makes for a much smoother mix of gray than forcing
the printer to use only the black cartridge. Which, as you say, looks
like a photocopy or newspaper print.

If you are going to be printing a lot of them, consider commercial
printers where you can upload your files and have them printed onto
professional photo paper:

One I like is www.mpix.com, who can actually put them onto TRUE black
and white professional Kodak paper. 8x10s are $2.49 and 4x6 is $0.59

Before you do anything, become a customer (it's free) and request a
media sample pack.

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