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There are lots of products you could use. Inkaid is one for inkjets, but there are ones as good or better at your local art store in the form of acrylic gessos, mylar film coatings, extenders, and so on normally intended for artists. This is a zone where using your imagination will give you...

Thanks for the replies. My test image is located here http://www.inkpresspaper.com/PDI%20TargetLetter.jpg The test image contains a variety of colorful and contrasty items including a calibration panel (Kodak Q-60), Kodak color control patch, Gretag-Macbeth Colorchecker renditions chart. and a...

After trying every conceivable combination of driver settings, ICM, color environment and management settings, print quality settings, diffusion setting, and print processor selection, not to mention dozens of pages of paper, I have come to the conclusion that the i9900 print firmware is flawed...

What I meant to say GHWells is that, for the very reasons you supply, to which I would add the cost of the "new" inks, the Canon line is going to run into a brick wall, and the "old" non-chipped i9900's may hold up in resale, and the new ones will be discounted very heavily. There is no panic...

You don't say what you want. Hobbicolors sends to Canada at no increase in price over US addresses and they process orders like lightning. They have a store on eBay which is quite convenient.

I believe it has a flat paper path and might be able to handle banner/panorama printing which the i9900 cannot. If you need this, buy the new one. Somebody should look into this. Also, trying to install an i9900 with pro9000 driver to see if they are the same and unlock the banner printing...

Hobbicolors is a very good product. I have been using it for two years. Make sure you refill ONLY Canon cartridges, not those offered as replacements. They are not worth the postage. Greyscale printing on the i9900 will drive you nuts until you set everything in the driver to grayscale and save...

There was an excellent thread on this issue back in September/October. I had this problem so badly I was going to scrap my i9900. The magenta cast is caused by cyan starvation, which can also manifest as banding. A cyan channel could be clogged, to be sure. Some refillers have alleged that North...

Has anyone tried changing the "ink drying wait time" control? The only control the printer would have over the "ink dry time" would be the amount of ink dispensed, as far as I can see. It is under maintenance/custom settings in the printer setup

To find a printer using a similar cartridge set, go to http://www.printheadexpress.com/ and find the print head replacement for the i860. The listing will tell you if that head, and thereafore the cartridges work in any other printer. Then you can look for one of those. Personally, I would just...

Yes this can drive you nuts, especially when trying to cure banding or uneven ink flow problems. I first found this setting when inserting a sheet of plain in front of glossy and telling the i9900 to print two copies. The prints are different! To disable paper detection go to printer...

This project will become more complex and possibly less successful than you want. If you are doing a lot of this I would recommend making a digital image of your object and projecting it onto the surface with a digital projector. You can get a Panasonic for about $US 800. Otherwise look at an...

If you want really big paper get the Canson ink sketch paper in pad form from a Michaels store or similar, in the 18x24 size and cut it to 13x23, which is the maximum an i9900 will take. Mine is called the Canson "biggie." You won't be far off if you use 11x17 office paper either. Plain paper...

Thanks for all who contributed to this thread. I was going crazy with my Canon i9900. I would get pink prints on glossy paper and good prints on "plain" paper, all without changing the paper type in the preferences box. No other forum mentioned this solution, though Colorbat came close with the...