Canon i960 profile suggestions for Kodak or other papers

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I just got an i960 and have been scouring Steve's, dpreivew, usenet and
groups via google. I haven't found a posting of profiles that actually
work well. I'd appreciate suggestions from folks have found something
that works well for them.

I've been using an unmodified photo-i web site test photo. When using
Kodak Colorlife Satin the results are mediocre as compared to Canon's
Photo Paper Pro or even Epson Heavyweight Matte. I don't see that much
evidence of pooling but there is not as much "snap" as I've gotten with
other papers. I know their chemistry is quite different but I'm just
trying to get equally good results from swellable as nanoporous. Kodak's
suggestions on the accompanying recommendations differ from those on the
Kodak web site. I tried +10 yellow but it looks too yellow to me. I
tried +10 intensity and it seemed to improve pix but overall.

I read good things about Red River and Ilford papers and am willing to
try those. I'd like to settle on one nanoporous paper and one swellable
for now and then test others down the road. But for now, I just to get
some production and stop testing!

I could play around forever but I hope to gain from the group's
experience to save time and money!

 

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If the ink is pooling then I suspect you have other problems.
I use Ultima papers extensively with this paper using Photoshop color
management and adjusting the color, usually yellow, as advised on the Kodak
web site. In fact the Ultima satin finish looks even better than Epson high
end velvet/satin finish paper with the 960. I wish it were less costly.
Prints come out of the Canon "wetter" than ink based Espon printers in my
experience and require several minutes to dry, regardless of the paper used.
Are you using Canon ink cartridges? I have used a great variety of
manufacturer's papers and not experienced problems like this.

 

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"bmoag" <aetoo@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<_EHIc.19653$aC7.8950@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>...
> If the ink is pooling then I suspect you have other problems.
> I use Ultima papers extensively with this paper using Photoshop color
> management and adjusting the color, usually yellow, as advised on the Kodak
> web site. In fact the Ultima satin finish looks even better than Epson high
> end velvet/satin finish paper with the 960. I wish it were less costly.
> Prints come out of the Canon "wetter" than ink based Espon printers in my
> experience and require several minutes to dry, regardless of the paper used.
> Are you using Canon ink cartridges? I have used a great variety of
> manufacturer's papers and not experienced problems like this.

Yes I use Canon inks. On Ultima glossy paper, with the printer driver
set to "Plus Glossy", high quality, printer CM, I get pools of ink
about 0.25mm in size; with "paper pro" they are 0.5mm. On a print
showing a crowd of people with 6-7mm faces, this is too
grainy. Colors and saturation are OK. Ilford Classic is somewhat
better in terms of grain but colors are somewhat off (unfortunately
Ilford don't have a color profile for this printer), and Ilford
Smooth is better still and the colors are almost correct with
the "photo pro" paper setting. They are still far from the Canon
Pro paper in terms of smoothness (so this is not my printer
hardware problem). Adjusting the colors manually -- been there,
don't want to do that again, there are color profiles for that,
and besides, this doesn't seem like a color problem.

An update on the Kodak EasyShare software -- got a response from
a tech rep, not helpful at all. My un-educated guess is there
is a difference between the Win XP and Win 98 drivers for this
printer, and Kodak used the XP one (and let people download
their package and beta-test if it works with Win 98, which it
doesn't).

MM