Any printer advice? I may give up on the wide-format options to save money, but I do love being able to make 11×13 prints. I am tired of bad B&W prints though on these color printers.

I’ll keep trying. I wish there were a revert to default button somewhere!

I appreciate your help.

If Canon don’t offer profiles for the i9100, then try a paper manufacturer that does. One of them is Ilford. THey have superb paper and you can get it at places like Amazon or at a local camera store (but probably not at a place like Staples or Office Depot).
I personally like their Gallery Smooth range, especially the Pearl which has become my favorite paper.
See this link here http://www.ilford.com/en/products/galerie/smooth/desk/smoothMediaSheets.asp for their Gallery Smooth products.
On this page, on the left, you’ll see a “download ICC profiles” link. You will need to register, but the profiles are free and they DO have i9100 profiles.

When you have the paper and the matching profiles, follow the procedures I describe in this article, just think Ilford paper instead of Canon paper. I am sure, you’ll have better results.

As for sRGB vs Adobe RGB?
Well, Adobe RGB is a larger gamut. In other words, it captures more colors than sRGB. I like to have as much “playroom” as possible, so I shoot in Adobe RGB. After all, I can always go down to sRGB (less colors), but I cannot go “up”. Think of Adobe RGB as a 16oz cup of coffee and sRGB as a 12 oz cup. I can fill the 12 oz cup easily, but I can never fill the 16 oz cup if all I have is 12 oz to start off with.

The modern printers, such as the PIXMA Pro 9000 and 9500 have great color spectrum, larger than sRGB so it makes sense to capture in Adobe RGB so you are taking advantage of all the colors that these printers can print. I do not know about the i9100 and it is entirely possible that Adobe RGB is overkill for it. However, it won’t do any harm.
Just remember that most labs and the Internet use sRGB, so if you post images on the web or take them to a place like Costco to print, make sure you convert them to sRGB.

Hope this all makes sense.
Good luck, hope you get it sorted out. It is quite a thrill to see those beautiful prints come out of your printer.
Albert

This is maddening when you don’t know much about it.

The Relative and Absolute Colorimetric intents will shift colors by comparing whites between the source color space and the destination color space. Any out-of-gamut colors are shifted to the closest reproducible color. This all may lead to a print that does not quite look right.

The Saturation intent is better suited to graphics and illustrations as tries to create vivid colors. This looks good in charts etc, but the process happens at the expense of the relationships between colors, as you would find in a photo.

So, I hope this is all clear, in summary, WHEN PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHS, the Perceptual intent will produce the most pleasing results as it maps the colors to the printer’s output in such a way the eye finds pleasing. The way the other intents do this mapping may result in odd color shifts and is not recommended for photographs.

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ALbert