My wife and I have always sent our images out for printing. We just bought a Canon Pro-100, which has tanks dedicated for B&W, in order to do some printing at home. What would be the proper way to print a B&W image so as not to get a color cast? Last night I bought Qimage Ultimate because of the great reviews, but used Paint Shop Pro to print before. I had an image that was greyscale and printed correct in PSP, but when printing with the same settings in Qimage I ended up with a very slight cyan cast. The original image was a Tiff....shown below is a resized jpg. I used the proper ICC profile for printer and paper and turned off color management in the Canon driver. Paper is Canson PhotoSatin Premium RC.

Thanks in advanced!

I found this:
Maybe it will shed some light.

For the first time, Canon has included gray and light gray inks in a PRO level dye based printer. In combination with black, these two new tanks greatly help the B&W output of the PRO-100. Another first is detailed printer driver control of grayscale output. Our tests consisted of printing the 8x10 test print (shown above) using the driver B&W feature. Photoshop was set to Printer Manages Color and no adjustments were made to the target file. We printed the target using the default, Cool Tone, and Warm Tone settings. After drying for eight hours the prints were evaluated under balanced Solux light.

Neutral - neutral grays with little or no color cast
Cool Tone - a very slight shift to blue and a cooler look
Warm Tone - a light but noticeable warm shift with a slight yellow tone

Tone can also be controlled via X and Y variables, slider bars, or by placing your mouse inside the Tone box.

Brightness settings include normal, light and dark. Intensity and contrast are sliders allowing for finer adjustments.

All of these adjustments will be "previewed" using a standardized sample image. The drop down menu below the pencil photo at right allows you to choose different preview samples. What actually happens on your printed image may be different. We suggest being judicious with changes and make small test prints when getting started.

Overall we were pleased with the results. You will benefit from well prepared files, which means proper exposure as well as some additional mid-tone contrast. Both are helpful in adding the proper amount of intensity and life into a black & white print.

There seems to be a tweaker for COOL or warm...

Fred
 

This is kinda what I found out....Found it weird that Paint Shop Pro with same ICC and color handling shut off in the printer drivers produced a correct B&W. Anyhow, Qimage blows away PSP and Lightroom in printing in general, so I am glad I bought it.

Thanks all for the help!