The Colorado Satine is not quite glossy, yet not quite matte. When printing from Lightroom 3, it asks for "media type" and the only two options in the "print job" section are "glossy" and "matte" -- does it make any difference? If so, which one should be selected? Thank you!

Mark-

This is a fantastic question. The short answer is 'glossy'. What Lightroom is doing is it is applying different levels of sharpening, depending on the paper type you selected. For matte papers the sharpening will be slightly more aggressive than with the glossy one.

I hope this helps

Mark, did that work for you? I tried printing from LR3 and my print came out over-saturated in red, just ghastly. I have the 9000 II, too. I tried from CS4, too, same thing. I can't get this paper to print decently and I'm getting tired of wasting ink and paper. thanks.

Bev, are you using our recommended media type in the printer driver?

I have the Moab ICC profile for the paper. Is there anthing else? Thanks.

I've had the "red" problem on occasion and don't know what I was doing wrong, but Colorado Satine is my "most-used paper" for my Canon 9500-II using LR 3 and works great almost all of the time. When the problem happens, I come back in an hour or so and then double-check all my settings. "Glossy" versus "matte" doesn't seem to make much difference -- and doesn't seem to correlate with the "red" problem. "Paper type" is "premium photo paper semi-gloss" (or close to that) in the Canon printer dialog box. That one might make a difference, but I'm not an expert.

Mark, the matte versus glossy will only affect sharpening. The media type in the printer driver affects how much ink volume will be applied to the paper, and thus it does affect print quality, how deep your blacks are as well as color gamut. You have to use our recommended media type for best results, as this is how we created the profiles. The recommended media type can be found next to each and every icc profiles download link on this web site.