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Thanks Mike & Eric!
Eric - thanks for the high pass filter suggestion; I hadn't thought of that. I normally use unsharp masking with large radius (e.g. 20%, 20 px, 0) as a contrast booster for prints - in combination with strong background blur (bokeh) it gives an eye catching 3D effect.
I didn't remove the noise as I've found that single colour tone images tend to print better with noise at large sizes. Cloudless sunsets shot with low ISO are often a pain to enlarge without causing obvious banding or pixellation (noise helps give a poor man's dithering effect).
My printer is a Canon iPF6100, i.e. it's a 24 inch wide format pigment inkjet that takes roll paper. They're amazing beasts - it took less than 10 mins to wake itself up from sleep mode, load the paper, print the photo, cut the photo from the roll, clean itself up, and eject the roll. All without me having to touch it (except for removing a dust cover)!
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