Hey everybody,
I just unboxed and fired up my new Canon Pro 9500mkii and everything is working perfectly. I need to use this printer to create portfolios with 11x14 borderless pages.
The paper I chose is Moab Entrada, so I downloaded the profile from Moab's site and got a really beautiful test letter size print (not borderless) right off the bat. I really couldn't be more pleased with the image quality.
My problem arises when I try to set up for borderless tabloid. The paper/media choice of "Photo Rag," which is what I used before, is now greyed out. If I select "matte paper" instead, the results are not good at all. In fact,
I was surprised at the difference just this media option made in the print quality and accuracy.
I spoke with Canon and I understand that the printer does not support borderless printing on photo rag, but I'm looking for a workaround and hoped someone here has found one. I can't be the only one struggling with this...
Options I thought of are; 1. creating a custom profile for the "matte paper" setting. 2. Finding a similar paper that prints well with the matte paper media setting. 3. printing on 13x19 and trimming down to 11x14. I really don't want to do #3 because I switch pages often, and if they are hand trimmed they never exactly match up and the pages become difficult to turn.
I saw in the forum that Canon "unlocked" media types for some of their large format printers, but not this one unfortunately, right?
Any help or suggestions are much appreciated.
Here's the technical rundown as well:
Printing from PS CS4
Mac os 10.6.2
Canon Driver 10.26.1.0
