Editorial Review:

Product Description:
With the PIXMA Pro9000, you'll discover just how good a photographer you really are. The 8-color ink system opens up your color palette, and advanced software fine-tunes your output. Move up to 13x19 print on fine art papers. The PIXMA Pro9000's ChromaLife100 system combines the benefits of dye-based ink, Canon photo paper and FINE print head technology to produce long-lasting, beautiful prints. With an 8-color dye ink system, the Pro9000 produces a wide color gamut to achieve vivid coloration and high glossiness. Black and Color Print Resolution - Up to 4800 x 2400 dpi Maximum 4800 x 2400 dpi FINE print head technology High-Speed USB 2.0 Ink Droplet Size - 2 picoliters Buffer/Ram - 42KB Paper Sizes - Letter, Legal, 4x 6, 4x 8, 5x 7, 8x10, 13x19, U.S. #10 Envelopes Paper Handling - Top Feeding (ASF); Front Feeding (Single sheet up to 1.2mm paper thickness) Noise Level (Approx.) - 37 dB(A) in the best quality mode Power Source - 120V AC, 60Hz Professional printer features using Easy-PhotoPrint Pro (Plug-in software for Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2) New printer driver with advanced color controls OS Compatibility - Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98 and Mac OS X v.10.2.8 or higher Dimensions - Width 26.0 x Height 7.6 x Depth 14.0 inches Weight - 30.8 pounds

Manufacturer Product Description :
How good of a photographer are you? You're about to find out. The PIXMA Pro9000 Photo Printer's 8-color ink system will open up your color palette, and its advanced software gives you more control over your final output. Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology uses a high-precision, 6,144-nozzle print head to deliver thousands of 2-picoliter ink droplets per second in one pass. This high-density ink placement produces a maximum resolution of 4800 x 2400 dpi with incredibly sharp detail and minimal graininess.

The Canon PIXMA Pro 9500 Professional Photo Printer: 4800 x 2400 dpi. 8-color pigment ink system 6,144-nozzle print head is designed to deliver thousands of 2-picoliter ink droplets per second in one pass.

Beautiful long lasting prints. View larger.

Beautiful, long-lasting prints.
The PIXMA Pro9000 Photo Printer along with the ChromaLife100 system combines the benefits of select genuine Canon dye-based inks, select Canon photo papers and FINE print head technology to create long-lasting, beautiful prints. This 8-color dye ink system produces a wide color gamut, and achieves the vivid coloration and high glossiness that may have been missing with other conventional photo printers.

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.

FINE Technology
Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) uses a patented print head with
6,144 precision nozzles, ejecting ink droplets as small as 2 picoliters. Meaning? More nozzles + high accuracy + small droplets = amazing images.

 




 








Accessories:
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Accessories:

• Canon Matte 13 x 19 Inch Photo Paper 20 Sheets (7981A011)
• Canon Fine Art Paper Photo Rag 8.5x11 20 Sheets (0587B005)
• Canon Fine Art 13 x 19 Inch Museum Etching Paper 20 Sheets (1262B007)
• Canon 13 x 19 Inch Semi Gloss Photo Paper Plus, 20 Sheets (SG-201) SG-201 Photo Paper Plus Semi-Gloss 13 x 19 20 sheets SG-201
• Canon Fine Art 13 x 19 Inch Premium Matte Paper 20 Sheets (1263B004)

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• Canon CLI-8 8-Color Multipack Ink Tanks
• Canon Digital Art Paper Variety Pack (1822B001)
• Canon CLI-8PM Photo Magenta Ink Tank
• Canon 13 x 19 Inch Semi Gloss Photo Paper Plus, 20 Sheets (SG-201) SG-201 Photo Paper Plus Semi-Gloss 13 x 19 20 sheets SG-201
• Canon Photo Paper Pro 13x19 10 Sheets (1029A009)
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Rating: - An incredible printer missing a few key features
To begin, this is truly a professional grade printer which I have used for just over a year. I produce prints of my artwork sometimes at the rate of three or four hundred 8x10's a week, and at other times it sits idle for a week or two at a time. The color quality with genuine canon inks is incredible - in my experience requiring little to no calibration with a properly set up, quality monitor. While printing, it's quick and quiet, even without its special Quiet Mode enabled, and I have actually turned down its printing speed at times, to allow for more drying time between prints. I do try to run at least a few prints a week, but even when it was left alone for nearly three weeks, there was no issue with the print head clogging. This may not be a good printer for someone who intends to use it only a few times a year, as it does use large amounts of ink in its cleaning cycles. If you, however, need to print very high quality, medium-large format pictures (whether photos or art) at reasonably high volume, this printer is definitely a good choice.

Now for the bad - what seems to be lacking more than the printer itself is the software it comes with - most irritating is its lack of support for 11x14" paper, a standard print and photo size readily available on my previous printer, an Epson Stylus Photo 1280. Its batch printing program, Easy-PhotoPrint, also limits paper type selection based on paper size - perhaps useful if printing only with Canon's paper, but in my experience it handles other brands just as well. The CD/DVD printing option available on European models would have been nice to have as well, though so far I've had no call for it. Points that others have brought up about its size are more or less accurate - it is a behemoth. Instead of sitting next to my computer, it has the top of a shelving unit all to itself, and will overwhelm most desktop space. It also requires space behind and in front for those big 13x19" prints you'll be producing.

All in all, the good points of this printer far outweigh the bad, but for a very select number of people. If you're printing only letter sized, there are other printers in Canon's line that do the job just as well. If you frequently need to print larger than 13x19" (it also has no banner printing feature), you'd be better with an actual large format printer. If you are an independent artist, artist group, or small photography studio, however, I would definitely recommend this printer.

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Rating: - Still waiting for delivery after one month
The printer may be the best thing since sliced bread, but I would't know because to the best of my knowledge it has not yet been delivered to the shipping address specified in the order.

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Rating: - Missing USB cable
It would've been great if somewhere on this item description page it informed buyers that the printer comes without the USB cable necessary to link the printer to the computer. Here I was setting up my printer and the USB port cable the instructions informed me I needed to plug in was missing, so I searched the box, searched my living room, searched the trash I threw the packaging away in looking for this cable. Then I called Canon to request one, only to be told it doesn't come with it. Awesome, thanks. You couldn't just include the, what?, $15 cable in the box, Canon?

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Rating: - Canon Pixma Pro9000
I love my printer. It takes all kinds of paper. I have even printed on glittered covered cards for my daughters' birthday party and not one paper jam. It is quite large. It sits on our two drawer file cabnet and takes up all the room. It is a bit loud, but that is not an issue with me. I love the quality prints it makes. I am an advid scrapbooker.

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Rating: - ink drinker
I waited for 5 months to buy this printer after I was told at Comp USA that this was the state of the art printer. WRONG. This printer drinks ink and costs hundreds to keep running. I had a paper feed problem which no one at Canon either understood of cared to involve themselves with. So my $99 Epson does most of my printing. I have also found it difficult to calibrate with my Mac so a lot of ink is wasted getting the color right. Too much money for too little.