Having done some tests and shown them to a professional printer, I can say that if you use a well-made custom profile, there's no difference for a black and white image between printing in color mode and printing in advanced b&w mode.

What's more, if you want to introduce a warm or cool tint, you can see it on your screen (correctly calibrated, of course)!

Hello.
I have put into service this printer that I bought used but overhauled 2 or 3 months ago.

When I print from the cassette, the vacuum works.
When I print a sheet from the upper insertion slot, there is no suction!

Adjusting the suction force from the driver has no effect either.

Does an owner of this printer have an idea, a tip, a test?

Thanks in advance.

That was it ... thank you !

You don't show the applicable parts of the screen but my guess would be you have auto rotate (next to auto crop) turned off and depending on the image and print size, that might cause Qimage not be allowed to rotate.

Regards,
Mike

Letter size sheet .... I usually print 2 - 5x7

If layout in portrait mode, it shows as taking 2 sheets.

I have to change to landscape mode for it to show as taking 1 sheet.

For fun, here's an image that looks good on-screen, but prints dark. Curious if anybody else sees a big difference there. My printer is the PRO-100 using Canon ink and Red River #1656 UltraPro Gloss. For the curious, it's a tractor designed for use in orchards and such, with everything smooth so as not to damage the branches and vines.

Ah- i got it now . I wanted to move the image within the print size. And I found it through your explanation. Yes - i can now zoom to enlarge and also move the print. Thanks.

It's not clear to me whether we are talking about moving the image within the print size (cropping) or moving the location of the print on the page.  It sounds like you might want to adjust the crop.  Click the "More tools (full page editor)" button lower right of the live view on the main window.  Then click on the "Cropping" tab on the top right of the full page editor.  You can then click and drag the small image on that Cropping tab to do things like add more space above heads in a picture (if space is available in the photo), etc.

Is that what you mean?

Regards,
Mike

Unless you ended up installing a newer driver, that is a mystery as you said: should be the same.  Dark prints is not always trivial to solve.  Adjusting the monitor (darker) is usually the answer but there are other factors as well.  I often wonder if people have sufficient lighting where they are viewing their prints.  Years ago I switched to daylight (full spectrum) bulbs in my office and I really haven't had any dark print problems since then.

Regards,
Mike

I replied to your email and glad that resolved it: the official Epson driver was not installed (just the Windows generic driver).

Mike