So I loaded up on ink, profiled my monitor and noticed significant banding in the green and blue colors when making a Profile Color Chart using the ColorMunki... Ran some print head alignments, nozzle cleanings and so on and still there slightly.
Printed the two calibration charts and made my ICC profile for my printer and paper combo and used Photoshop to print....
My prints have never looked so awful in all my life. Made sure I had the correct print driver, even downloaded the defauly ICC profile from Canon's site for the printer and paper (paper was 13x19" Photo Paper Plus Glossy II BTW). My guess is that the banding in the blue and green could have gave my ICC profile so unsuccessful. It was noticeable even after making the finest print possible (High Quality Photo setting wasn't fine enough so I had to do a custom setting with the finest print quality to reduce the banding as much as possible) Another issue I have noticed is that say I printed a 13x19" print borderless, the first inch or two was much nicer and more accurate and then the banding and poor color started to occur. New ink didn't fix that. On a 4x6" the same thing happens just scaled down the same amount.
My buddy has the Epson Stylus R1900, same file, same ColorMunki calibration, new ICC profile with his printer, same paper and ColorMunki and within 10 minutes I had the print that I wanted and then some...
This Canon Pro9000 has been giving me issues ever since I got it. I think it is time to call Canon tech support which I am dreading.
I am going to give it one shot with my PC this time and not my Mac to see how it fairs up. I have Photoshop CS4 as well.
I guess if I am not happy with what I get then I will just move to HP or Epson so on that note, can you recommend me a good 13"-17" wide printer that is ideal for fine art landscape images? I know I will not be printing large any time soon so anything 17" and up will be overkill.
This is one of those hair pulling out moments...
Boy that was one expensive 11x14" I had to make! If it wasn't such short notice, I would have just given up after 5 minutes and have WHCC do it for me (It's a portrait job for mother's day so I needed to get it made asap).