PiXMA 9000 - plain card

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Chris Gilbert - 31 May 2007 11:31 GMT

I have some greetings card blanks made from a pretty good
quality plain white card with a nice smooth satin finish but I'm
struggling to get the printer to put a photo quality image on it.
All settings so far come a bit grainy. Does anyone have any
experience or advice they can share ? I'd prefer to not have
to resort to cut and paste.

TIA

Chris
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Chris Gilbert Photography
www.ravenseyegallery.co.uk

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Roy G - 31 May 2007 12:12 GMT

>I have some greetings card blanks made from a pretty good
> quality plain white card with a nice smooth satin finish but I'm
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> Chris Gilbert Photography
> www.ravenseyegallery.co.uk

Hi

Photo quality printing requires the proper coatings on the paper. Look for
photo quality card in Canon's catalogue.

Roy G

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Chris Gilbert - 31 May 2007 12:19 GMT

> Photo quality printing requires the proper coatings on the paper. Look
> for photo quality card in Canon's catalogue.

Thanks Roy

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Charles Gillen - 31 May 2007 20:10 GMT

> I have some greetings card blanks made from a pretty good
> quality plain white card with a nice smooth satin finish

I used to get fairly decent color prints from an HP printer using heavy
card stock, but same used on a Pixma was not as good... the paper's
"tooth" seemed to prevent a similar same degree of ink absorbtion.

Perhaps your smooth satin finish is rougher than you think. Could also be
the difference between HP pigment inks and Canon dye inks.

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Chris Gilbert - 31 May 2007 23:37 GMT

> Perhaps your smooth satin finish is rougher than you think. Could also be
> the difference between HP pigment inks and Canon dye inks.

I think that this is the key point. The fact is that the printer
is designed to work best with photo paper designed specifically
to receive dye inks. It will write on other surfaces but it
works best with that which it has been designed for.

Chris

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