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Canon PIXMA Pro9500 A3+ Professional Inkjet Printer. | 
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| Brand: Canon
Category: CE
New (16) from £519.99
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 10022
Platform: Mac Os X
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 30.9
Dimensions (in): 139.4 x 259.8 x 75.2
MPN: 0373B016AA
Model: 0373B016AA
EAN: 4960999359908
ASIN: B000F4KG5A
Release Date: July 31, 2007
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| Features:
| • | System: WIN/MAC | | • | Sprache: D/E | | • | Garantie: 12 |
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Product Description
Print out your favourite photos on a quality device with the Pixma Pro9500. This inkjet printer is perfect for photo enthusiasts who want to print in A3 poster format. The Pixma Pro9500 printer includes Pictbridge technology to print directly from a compatible digital camera. It prints up to 8 ppm in colour, 9 ppm in black & white, and takes only 75 seconds to print out a photo lab-quality 4?x6? print. Able to print onto several different formats such as envelopes, stickers, and glossy paper, the Pixma Pro9500 printer is the ideal machine for photo quality reproductions and graphics printing.
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| Customer Reviews:
A Printer for making prints October 28, 2008
John Sheldon (Herefordshire, England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I acquired this printer, and downloaded the drivers etc online (yes, Canon unlike so many other printer manufacturers have fully responded to Windows Vista and made compliant versions of every driver, ICC profile and piece of software for this product, including a new driver that enables the XPS 16-bit per channel capabilities on Vista! These are free to download). I configured my photo editing system to recognise the ICC profile of my monitor and that of the Canon PRO9500 - and the result is that the prints are exactly what I expect from what I see on the screen.
So as I say, this is a printer for making prints. What I may spend in printer ink (see other reviews) will, I think, be made up for by my ability to dispense with test prints (except perhaps for very very difficult pictures) and the absence of wasted paper and ink on prints that do not look like the screen image.
I would recommend the Canon PIXMA PRO9500 to anyone who is prepared to spend some time finding out how to configure their computer system to take advantage of it, and who does not need a dye based ink printer!
Excellent Printer But Requires Patience! June 13, 2008
TR Winn (Cambridge, England)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
I have owned this printer for nearly a year, using it to produce upto A3+, colour and black and white prints that I sell. The bottom line? The printer delivers superb quality images that are unrivalled by many other printers.
However, as the other reviewer has said I do have a few niggles! Firstly, the printer does tend to over saturate colours, particularly the reds, so prints are slightly warmer when produced straight out of the box as it were. However, this is easily changed by playing with the intensity, contrast and colour controls. You also need to experiment with a range of papers to find what works best - canon premium matte is very good as are the Ilford papers - however, certain Epson papers can also work perfectly well. You need to make sure that papers are pigment ink compatible and have ICC profiles available. Without altering the settings prints can also be too dark and therefore lose detail on certain images.
Ink is another niggle. In that it's not widely available, and expensive - however shop around on the internet as you can find it much cheaper than its 11.99 RRP. Inks last a reasonable amount of time unless your printing lots of A3+, and it last significantly longer than when the printer prompts you to change the cartridge; I'd wait until it's flat out to change (although some users note colour shifts with low levels of ink - I can't say that I've noticed!) You need to make sure that you order inks well in advance as you can't simply nip to the shop to get a refill.
Versus the Epson R2400; many debates on this and I don't have much experience with the latter printer - however, I feel that the Canon is better built, the 2400 seems more plastic, the Canon is solid and robust (you need a lot of desk space by the way!). The software is also superior, the photoshop plug-in gives you great options for altering colours and contrast etc. However, I use it straight from Lightroom. As to print quality there's probably not much in it, however, given that this is a ten cartridge printer, the colour gamut should be greater and black and white definitely reigns on this printer.
Overall this is a great printer if you want professional looking prints
to sell, however, you do need to put in the time to research and be prepared for much trial and error, especially if you're a perfectionist!
Gives fantastic results, but a few niggles too December 18, 2007
Simon Dismore (London, United Kingdom)
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
Mono and full colour output from this 10-pigment printer are gorgeous and it is a wonderful gift for more advanced amateur photographers - the sort who are already using Adobe Photoshop etc - if they have enough space for a unit that's 66cm (26 inches) wide.
Ink is expensive and relatively hard to find. Unlike the CLI-8 cartidges for the Pro 9000, there's no multi-pigment PGI-9 pack for this machine. I'm paying 11.74 per cartridge (inc VAT) which means refilling all 10 tanks is about 125 including delivery. Coverage isn't great so it can be expensive to run. Colour fidelity (e.g. flesh tones) can drift significantly when cartridges are low rather than empty, so you have to be ready to change cartridges the first time you see a warning rather than waiting for the 'empty' message. Stock up on extra black and grey cartridges if you like to print in mono.
Canon paper (not easy to find in shops) has a bewildering classification system. For example, Canon says 'Photo Paper Pro' is their 'flagship professional photo paper', but this paper isn't supported by the 9500's bundled 'Easy PhotoPrint Pro' plug-in for Photoshop, and in fact is not recommended for the Pro 9500, though it is for the 8-colour Pro 9000. The difference between SG-101 and SG-201 papers is hard to understand, etc. You can work all this out by diligent web searches - the trick is not to buy a lot of expensive paper until you have worked out exactly what you want.
Bottom line: a 5-star piece of equipment slightly let down by the complexity of keeping it stocked with ink and appropriate paper.
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