Product DescriptionCanon PIXMA Pro9500 Photo Printer 13x19 (0373B001AA)Manufacturer Product Description In one giant leap, the all-new PIXMA Pro9500 takes your work from merely "beautiful" to "extraordinary." With 10 full-time color pigment inks, advanced new software, camera-direct printing of contact sheets, and support for fine art papers up to 13x19 inch, it's the new standard for creating your own professional images. 
Professional color and detail. View larger. |
For photographers that need high-contrast or beautifully reproduced colors, photographers need look no further than the PIXMA Pro9500. Its 10-color pigment ink system includes gray, black and matte black cartridges that collectively produce monochrome photographs of unrivaled quality on both fine art paper and glossy photo paper. With pigment ink, photographers will enjoy incredibly smooth gradations and can create long-lasting prints that resist the damaging effects of light for up to 100 years. Professional color and detail
In one giant leap, the all-new PIXMA Pro9500 Photo Printer sets the new standard for creating your own professional images. It features Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology, producing a maximum resolution of 4800 x 2400 dpi. Its high-precision, 7,680-nozzle print head is designed to deliver thousands of 3-picoliter ink droplets per second in one pass. This high-density ink placement produces incredibly sharp detail and minimal graininess, enabling you to create beautiful photo lab quality photos up to 13 x 19 inch. Full time, 10-color pigment ink system
For high-contrast photographs and beautifully reproduced colors, look no further than the PIXMA Pro9500 Photo Printer. Its 10-color pigment ink system includes gray, photo black and matte black cartridges that let you produce monochrome photographs of superb quality, both on Fine Art and Glossy photo paper. These pigment inks yield incredibly smooth gradations, creating long-lasting prints that can resist the damaging effects of light for up to 100 years. Plus, all 10 inks sit in the printer at once, eliminating the inconvenience of ink swapping. 
|
Exclusive Canon software for photo fine-tuning.
Want more control over the print process? With the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint Pro software plug-in, this next-generation photo printer can be seamlessly integrated into a computer workflow. Easy-PhotoPrint Pro augments other post-production software, including Canon Digital Photo Professional software (DPP version 2.1) and Adobe® Photoshop® CS/CS2 software. You can use customized layout options to produce contact prints, prints with shooting information—even pattern prints of a single image that let you select the optimal color balance, brightness and contrast settings. For further fine-tuning, choose from three color adjustments that can be saved with personal settings: Enable ICC Profile, Photo Color and Linear Tone.
ReviewsI don't do product reviews too much. But I have to post a review about this printer.
I just received it on Thursday evening. Today is my first chance to use it. Once you get the color management and paper types set properly the output is exactly the same as what you see on the monitor. I use a calibrated work flow. My monitor is calibrated and I use the ICC profiles that the vendors provide. I also have the hardware and software to build my own profiles. I haven't tried that yet. I think that it would be very easy to get bad prints out of this printer if you don't understand color management.
The first paper I tried out was Lumijet Photo White. I bought a box of this because it's about half the price of the Hahnemuele(sp?) paper. My first print was a senior portrait. It took me some time to get the printer settings set properly. The options are the same as my I9900 but different names. Why can't they standardize on print setting names?? I ended up wasting 2 sheets of paper before I got an amazing print. First try I had selected the wrong media type. I did this based on my i9900 experience. The lumijet paper always wants you to select Photo Paper Pro for the media setting. That never worked too well on the i9900 and I used the matte paper setting instead. The second print I used the right media type and everything looked great except the skin was a bit red. I went through the settings and found one I had missed. I had changed the color management to manual. I had forgotten to select the set button and disable the icm settings. The third print came out perfectly. Really really nice look to the colors. It definitely seems to have more depth to the color than my I9900.
BTW, I don't use Photoshop to do my prints. I use a rip called Qimage to do all my prints. It works flawlessly with the printer.
I guess that I will now try a print on the Hahnemuelle paper.
The only thing that annoys me on the printer is the front loading process. I have tried to follow the manual and I have yet to get the front loader light to come on. Does anyone know where there might be a video or a tutorial on using the front loader?
I would have given it 5 stars if I could have figured out the front loading procedure. I also think that the documentation for this printer is much better than what came with the I9900. I have been using that printer for over 3 years now. I have printed a lot of photos on that printer (in the hundreds). I will still use the I9900 for work prints since the ink is a little cheaper.
I've never had any issues with any of the Canon hardware I've purchased. Crossing my fingers on the 9500.
I also have a good idea about the print time. It takes twice as long to print on the 9500 than it does on the I9900. I have also done a lot of prints on an Epson 3800 pro that I rent when I need to deliver prints to customers. I am uncomvortable giving them prints with dye based ink. The canon is still faster than the Epson. Rear loading of paper is a dream on the canon vs. the Epson. I have had many many misfeeds on the 3800 when I use the heavier art papers.
The Pro9500 printer is ideal for those who want to produce large format prints. As opposed to snapshots, most larger prints wind up on non-glossy paper. If you want to do glossy prints, you may not like the result. This uses pigmented ink with no gloss equalizer.
WHAT YOU WILL LIKE:
You can probably find a $200 promotional rebate for a while yet. It's giving way to the 9500 Mark II.
The pigmented inks on Canon paper have an independently verified (fade) permanence rating of 100 years plus.
It's easy to add profiles for third party papers in the Canon color management workflow.
Canon has some great (not cheap) art papers. Museum Rag, Museum Etching, Premium Matte. There are a lot of third party offerings that work well with this printer (Ilford Pearl is highly touted)
Color accuracy is amazing. Best I have experienced compared to a dozen or more printers. I usually have to tweak color settings to get most printers to match a calibrated monitor even with their own papers. This gem printed it's very first photo with flawless color rendition on Ilford Smooth Classic, using Ilford's free ICC profile. The finest changes I can detect on my monitor are visible in the print. Wow! What a pleasure.
This printer is built like a tank. It should outlast my Toyota Tundra, and nothing outlasts a Tundra!
Reputed to produce some of the best black and whites of any comparable printer. Probably true, as it has three black/greys in it's ink arsonal. I will verify that shortly
WHAT YOU MAY NOT LIKE:
Not what I would choose for glossy, but I didn't buy this for snapshots.
Slow. Probably the biggest improvement that the Mark II offers. I don't really care as I'm not in mass production. Color matching outweighs this for me.
When print media is set for the Fine Art papers, the 13x19's have an 1-1/2" boarder! This is to prevent curl from edge bleed. Workaround is to use the Matte setting, but this defeats the work Canon put into matching their ink placement to their papers. I will report on the results of doing this workaround, later.
It doesn't come with a USB cord, so buy one!
CONCLUSION:
I would recommend the 9500 to anyone who is not going to be printing glossy.
|
