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Although noticeable pink tint is somewhat strange. Maybe it's not monitor, but printer or cartridge, or paper.....

Well actually that was an addition to my question I wanted to ask... I don't print my photos at home - I use different online places. I'm just doing stuff for myself right now, I'm an aspiring photographer, getting ready to take some classes and such. I do have an eye for nicely composed photos but don't know the first thing about the technical stuff - hence... school!! Anyway, so I guess I'm wondering if my monitor is calibrated to the camera at least - if that makes any sense? Then will my photos print ok from somewhere other than home? (Ok, well, SHOULD they print ok lol!).

I think the reasoning for the pink tones in my black and whites is from my pp on the computer here, thinking they needed to be brighter or color corrected or whatever, when maybe it was just the way my monitor shows my photos..

Thanks for the advice so far - greaty appreciated!..

You could post a sample here (say, some crop with uninteresting plot but good range of tones, if you're wary of posting significant photos online.).

That, I think, would help to rule out either monitor or lab rather conclusively...

Thanks for the tip, I will scan in what I received and the original I sent to the lab and post it in a few - thanks!.

Erin..

Here are my samples as recommended... they look great on my screen but came out with a pink tint - wondering if this would be due to my monitor being off, and my post processing maybe is unknowingly being "over-done"??.

Also - I have re-sized these 3 times and it seems they're not getting smaller - I made them all 640x480 as they were huge files but they're still showing up large here so... my apologies lol! Thanks for all the help!.

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Change your lab. Of course, I'm not color guru, my monitor isn't perfectly calibrated right now, but I don't see anything pink in those, neither does my printer ( They came a bit darker than they were on-screen, but no any pink.)..

All RGB values are R=B=G, so it should not have any color cast if whoever and whatever printed those worked properly..

Ok, cheap 3-color printers could mess that up, but no self-respecting lab would use ones..

Anyway, calibration is a good idea...

Thank you so much for your help - I understand they might be a little different when ordering from a lab but what I got was pretty crappy - artistic maybe but I know what it was supposed to be! Thanks again I appreciate it!..

I could not agree more. They look fine on my monitor from a color standpoint. And they printed fine as well. I don't know what lab you are using but I use MPIX and have had good luck so far..

MaddogOlympus E-500, Olympus E-510..

Those are monochrome JPGs (8 bit grayscale to be precise). No colour in them whatsoever. They should not have any colour when printed..

I had a similar experience when I first printed B/W on my home printer. I concluded that it was something to do with the printer/paper. I took the JPGs to a higher-end semi-pro print shop and they did a perfect job..

I have been told that even when printing B/W a printer may use colour inks to manage some of the blacks (unless perhaps various hardware / software settings are adjusted, I don't know)..

In any case - a good lab should be able to produce pure B/W prints. An average lab may just run everything through the standard process, on standard paper, assuming it's colour..

Tell your next lab that these are B/W images and you expect B/W prints. Then if they still produce pink, ask for your money back and try another lab .

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