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Adjusting Tone

When printing black and white photos, you can produce the cooling effects of cool colors and the warming effects of warm colors.

figure:Cool is selected
figure:Standard is selected
figure:Warm is selected

Cool is selected

Standard is selected

Warm is selected

The procedure for adjusting tone is as follows:

  1. Select Quality & Media from the pop-up menu of the Print Dialog

  2. Select the media type

    For Media Type, select either Photo Paper Plus Glossy II, Photo Paper Pro Platinum, Photo Paper Pro Luster, Photo Paper Plus Semi-gloss or Other Fine Art Paper.

  3. Set grayscale printing

    Check the Grayscale Printing check box.

    figure:Grayscale Printing of Quality & Media in the Print dialog

  4. Select Color Options from the pop-up menu

  5. Adjusting monochrome tones

    Moving the Tone slider to the right brings out the warm colors (warm tones), and moving it to the left brings out the cool colors (cool tones).
    You can also directly enter a value linked to the slider. Enter a value in the range from -50 to 50.

    figure:Tone of Color Options in the Print dialog

  6. Complete the setup

    Click Print.
    When you execute print, the color document is converted to grayscale data with adjusted tones. It allows you to print the color document in monochrome.

Important

  • If you select ColorSync for Color Matching, then Tone appears grayed out and is unavailable.