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Canon Pixma Pro9500 Professional Large Format Inkjet Printer (0373B001AA) | List Price: $849.99
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Brand: Canon
Binding: Electronics
Release Date: 2007-05-15
Features: - Professional inkjet printer features a 10-color pigment ink system for extraordinarily vivid images up to 13 x 19 inches
- FINE printhead technology for maximum 4800 x 2400 dpi resolution
- 2 separate paper paths support fine art paper
- Includes matte black, photo black, and gray inks for professional-quality black and white prints
- Dimensions: 26 x 7.5 x 14 in. (WxHxD); weighs 30.8 pounds
Canon Pixma 9500 pro [Posted on 2008-06-13]
This printer is not for those who like a push button no hassle photo. It produces high quality prints up to 13 x 19 inches, but does require some attention to the printed directions on the part of the user.
Prints from this on pearl paper have been very good. The canon utilities for this printer work fine. I have been using it with an IMAC.
It uses high quality pigment inks that will last. 4800 x 2400 dpi resolution and 10 ink cartridges. Cartridge value pack is about $115/10 cartridges.
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Canon Pixma Pro9500 Professional Large Format Inkjet Printer (0373B001AA)
Very Good printer [Posted on 2008-07-28]
I have been impressed with this printer. Yes it does have its limitations and you do need to sort out what is important to you. The limitations are:
- I have read that a gloss differential problem exists on gloss prints, this doesn't affect me as I'm not keen on gloss prints anyway. I have noticed this on semi gloss immediately after printing, but after 24 hours it has gone
- It is slow, but then printing fine art prints does not normally need high speed output. It has never caused me a problem
- Printing to fine art papers leads to an enforced 35mm margin if you use the fine art as opposed to matte setting. Utilising the matte setting and Hahnemuhle profiles gets around this for Canon Photorag & Museum Etching papers (the Hahnemuhle profiles specify matte and not fine art setting).
All the prints I have made (I have used Canon semi glosss, Canon matte and Hahnemuhle fine art papers) have been excellent - good colours that match my screen (which has been calibrated). The black and white prints have also been excellent - totally neutral.
The printer is very well built, solid, and with wheels to help move it forward or back on my desk. The pigment inks give ensure great print life. While Canon says only to use Canon paper, it works great with other papers - you just need to get a suitable profile. I read comments that some early profiles available for this weren't great, but those available now seem excellent.
I compared reviews of the Epson 2400, 1900 & HP B9180 along with the Canon before making the purchase. The key reasons for selecting the Canon were price (it cost me about half the price of the other two, due to deals available at the time), and due to not having to swap black ink cartridges. I don't believe there is much to separate between the brands.
This is not the printer for everyone, but for those who appreciate good semi gloss, matte or fine art prints, this does an excellent job.
Great printer but documentation sucks [Posted on 2008-08-04]
If you buy a printer of this caliber you will no doubt be operating with a fully color-managed workflow - note that I use a Mac Pro running OS X 10.5 Leopard, Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CS3.
Basically, the print driver does not have the ability to toggle on/off color management and the documentation does not allude to how printer color management can be turned off - and it most definitely needs to be switched off!
As it happens the printer driver (latest version 10.1.2) is Canon's first driver (according to the very helpful technical support person) to be fully 16 bit and fully integrated with Apple's print and color management systems, CUPS & colorsync.
The great news is that you don't need to delve into the printer driver at all; it's SO clever you can just set the color management print profile in the application (e.g. Photoshop CS3) and by implication the system knows to shut down color management in the printer - and if you were to check in the printer driver the relevant sections will indeed be grayed out.
The bad news is that this vital piece of information does not appear prominently enough in the documentation; it might not be there at all since I couldn't find it. Also, there is no mention of which applications will properly interface with the print system. It maybe that ALL Mac applications do this, but again it would be nice for Canon to let us know. What I can tell you is that CS3 DOES work for sure, but Lightroom 1.4.x print color management options have to be set each and every time, since the printer driver settings were NOT consistently grayed out.
Great printer but the documentation sucks. Canon's software is also NOT kind enough to automatically check in with Canon's website to see if there are any software updates; you have to go looking for them yourself! I don't know what Epson is like but I almost went for the Pro 3800; maybe my next printer will be an Epson!
Amazing printer, and easy to operate!!! [Posted on 2008-08-08]
This printer is such a pleasure... I actually just sold an Epson R2400 because it was so counter intuitive to use... printing a photo was extremely difficult, so I took a chance and got rid of it, with the hopes that Canon would be better for me. I am SO happy I did this! Not only is my Pixma Pro 9500 extremely user friendly - it prints amazing photos from my MacBook Pro! The colors look exactly like what I see on my monitor, right out of the box without any calibration.... and they look FABULOUS! Black and whites are sharp sharp sharp, and the color images are much better than anything my Epson ever printed in the 2 years I owned it. I am thrilled I made the switch, and highly recommend this printer to anyone considering it.
Canon needs better R&D before releasing a product. (VERY restricting) [Posted on 2008-08-26]
Several problems with this printer, please do your research to save you much aggravation. Well documented problem with glossy paper is the least of the its problems. I print predominantly on matte papers, and gloss is not a concern for me. However, printing on Canon Matte Photo Paper gives very mediocre results, the prints are low-contrast and dull. One would think that it's a character of a matte print, however, printing on Fine Art Matte Photo Paper gives excellent color and contrast that is extremely close to the original image. You would think, the problem is solved, right? Wrong. The fine Art paper, though practically the same thickness as regular matte photo paper cannot be auto fed, which means you have to reconfigure the printer (watch "Transformers" for reference) and move it very far away from any walls, front-feed the paper and just when you think you have everything squared away, you are forced to two options: either print 13X19 or Letter size (nothing else) AND get a 35mm (1 1/2") margin. Selecting custom size forces you to print on any paper BUT Fine Art. Getting custom color profiles does not correct the issue. Printing on Fine Art paper with any selection to allow auto-feed or lesser margin will ruin the color, CATCH 22 ALL THE WAY. Seems like many people in forums are having similar problems and no one has found a fix for it. Canon's tech support says "you are using the printer not in the way it was meant to be used." I thought the word "Art" included "Creativity" in the definition. Being forced to ONLY 2 SIZES and 35mm Margin if you want to get a decent print (and that's at $5 a sheet!) does not fit the "PRO" or the "Fine Art" definition in my opinion.
I really could go on about many other caveats I've discovered, but these MAJOR things should steer many a Photographer/Artist away from this restricting machine.
Do not blame Pigment Inks for poor contrast. HP and Epson manage to do fine on any paper, as well as Canon on $5/sheet paper (only when you print on 75% of it).
I'm returning the printer and going back to the drawing board (HP or Epson).
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