Halftone printing on Epson NX625 colour printer

I need to print grayscale halftones from my colour Epson printer. I have converted the photos to grayscale by changing the mode in Photoshop but the Epson printer still prints with 4-colours. I would like to screen them into halftones for printing and ultimately photocopying. Is this possible on the Epson NX625? I am running OS X Lion version 10.7.2 on iMac 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5. I can't seem to resolve this with Epson support.

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The solution to your issue is in this thread:https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5233149
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when attempting to print the epson print program shows "stopped - 'filter' faile
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Dear Robert,
Thank you for contacting Epson.
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Curious to know what I am missing and if their are any forums you would recommend I go to for further advice.
Using a Windows Vista operating system I'm attempting to print using PSE on an Epson R1800. Everything checks out fine with the printer and monitor because when I print rendered images using the Window Photo Gallery I get an almost identical match to what I see on screen. I would prefer to use the extra controls in PSE though.
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I followed all suggestions and here is my results...
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1. Windows Photo Gallery (The utility installed with Vista).
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Hi There,
First of all apologies if this is in the wrong thread, If so, could an admin please move it to a correct one?
I have searched google and these forums for an asnwer but am still having the same problem.
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Apologies for the legth of this post but it needs it.
For 3 years I have struggled to get a B&W print without a magenta colour cast.
My old printer, an Epson 1400, only had 1 black so I thought this was to blame and bought a new Epson R2880 with 3 blacks earlier this year..
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Profiles for each paper.
A calibrated screen
Windows 7
All drivers etc are up to date.
Because it was originally loaded with Epson inks, I used the Advanced B&W (ABW) setting to print B&W photos, which were actually very good considering I wasn't using Epson paper. When the Epson ink ran out, I changed to Fotospeed Crystal dye inks with profiles.
I have successfully printed colour photos with the new setup for a couple of months.
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The first, a colour print, printed OK.
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Shutdown PC and went to bed. Printer remained switched on to save on ink cleaning routines.
Today.
Booted up PC.
Did a small test print using PMC and it came out B&W - no colour cast. ??????
Printed full size and it came out B&W no colour cast. On checking the print I noticed some blown highlights so went back into CS5 and did some adjustments to recover the highlights.
Tried a small test print with PMC and it printed magenta. Again, only minutes between the two prints and it goes from B&W to magenta.
Closed everything down and did a PC restart. Tried again with PMC and still magenta.
Several magenta attempts later and I nearly gave up the will to live.
Had a brainwave - I have Canon Digital Photo Professional on my machine as I use Canon cameras so I tried to directly print from the Canon software.
If this printed B&W then it would indicate a problem between CS5 and Epson. If it didn't work then it would absolve CS5
The software allows you to select paper profiles etc in a similar way to CS5 and I also set up the Epson software as no colour adjustment (just like when you use CS5)
Tried a test print and it printed B&W.
Went straight away into CS5 and printed the same test photo using PMC and it printed magenta.
Went straight back to the Canon software and printed a full size print and it printed B&W.
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Please do a forum search. There are already at least two other threads on the subject of dark prints.
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Eric Chan, "PS3 prints fine, PS4 prints too dark, same Mac" #12, 12 Dec 2008 6:07 am
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In the calibration process, I have to turn my monitor Brightness control all the way to 0 to get to come close to what Colormunki wants.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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Printing from Lightroom the colors are way off, or they're flat. I've tried different, including one from the paper manufacturere (Ilford) No luck.
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A few questions (or skip to the para below):
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If you're not sure of the answers to these questions, then try this: print from Lightroom, but in the Color Management panel (bottom right of print module) set the profile to sRGB (or sRGB IEC61966-2.1 or similar). Does that make a difference? Does it now print images the same as Photoshop?
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If printing in LR using sRGB profile fixes the problem, then job done, but it also suggests you might not be using colour management in the printers, so you might do better with colour-mangement in the printers and appropriate profiles and calibrated and profiled monitors.
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