Canon i9100

[CLBogan]

I took a group photo indoors with a boom kit. The photo's settings were ISO 64, 1/3, f/2.0, 7.1mm on a Sony DSC-F828 camera in RAW. I use a Canon i9100 printer and is used weekly. I deep cleaned the heads and is properly aligned. The photo prints out beautiful on Office Max's Professional photo paper glossy 13 x 19. However, when I print an 8x10 on Kodak Ultima high gloss paper letter sized, the image comes out grainy or it looks like the image was spray painted. I've tried using JPEG to see if there was too much resolution. That didn't work. It still looks grainy. I tried maintenance on the printer and still no results. How can I remove the grainy look on the smaller image? The larger the image the better quality. The smaller the image the grainier or more sprayed look. Thanks for your input.

[dc2]

I had this printer and mostly used gallerie smooth gloss you don't mention what resolution your printing at?
The gallerie paper I found was about as good as anything I tried on this printer and better than most even canon paper.
BTW Im told you should not deep clean to regularly .
This was a good printer for me for about 3 years before it died

[Mr. Pickles]

I have a similar Canon printer, but that doesn't matter here. The problem with printers and printing photos that some people do not understand is the paper and ink combination. Some papers do not like the ink, or the way the ink is applied out of the box. I'd say the Kodak paper is the issue.

Have you tried the same letter size print on say Office Max paper? if not, I would give it a try and see if it prints fine. If it does, then you have the quick answer. If it does not, then you have some other problem, probably in software.

Don't know what you are printing the image with (software-wise), and/or how it is getting "down sampled" to the printer. I always use Qimage ( http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/ ) to print bigger or smaller versions of my images. Qimage (free trial is available) will handle all the upsizing and downsizing well. It also gets into saved printer settings, and color/printer profiles. if the Kodak paper doesn't print like the letter sized Office Max print, then it is a printer profile issue.

You could look for what are called Printer Profiles for the Canon printers, for use with Kodak paper, like this one:
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...0.23.6.9&lc=en

If you are new, and confused about what is happening, you could try and puddle through this stuff:
http://www.normankoren.com/printer_calibration.html

Hope this helps, and if not, come on back....

[CLBogan]

Thanks for your response. The width is 3140 pixels and the height is 2043. It is cropped in Photoshop's PDD. I will try both types of paper to see which works better. I will let you know.

Curtis