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Great New Printers
As we reported on February 10, 2009, Canon has updated the two high end Pixma Printers. They became official today.
https://www.canonrumors.com/category/photography/canon-printers/
Press Release
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., March 2, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today introduced two new printers for professional and advanced photographers, the ten-color PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II and the eight-color PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printers. The PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II printer takes advantage of Canon's professional Lucia brand pigment-based inks for long-lasting, professional-quality prints. The PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II printer uses the Company's dye-based inks to produce brilliant, gallery-quality prints up to 13 x 19 inches on a variety of fine art papers and glossy media. Canon will debut the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II and PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II photo printers and the LiDE700F Color Image Scanner in its booth (#F131) during the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) exhibit in the Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall from March 3-5, 2009.
“Canon is known within the professional photographer community for providing the right output tools to manage their photographic creations and the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer continues to deliver on that tradition with its superior quality and archiveability,” said Yuichi Ishizuka, senior vice president and general manager, Consumer Imaging Group, Canon U.S.A. “Additionally, with the growing number of enthusiasts capturing professional-quality photographs with digital SLR cameras, it is only natural to want to maintain creative control over their photos by printing the images themselves on products like the new Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer. These professional and emerging photographers understand and appreciate the creative control that Canon provides over image quality from capture to output.”
PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer
The new PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer features ten pigment-based ink colors – photo black, matte black and gray as well as cyan, magenta, yellow, photo cyan, photo magenta, red and green, allowing users the benefit of a wide color gamut for stunning color prints, as well as three levels of black for true black-and-white photographs. Designed for the pro and “pro-sumer” photographers, the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II provides outstanding resolution and droplet control utilizing Canon's double-encoder system to produce high-quality portfolio pieces or gallery-quality prints for the marketplace. The Pro9500 Mark II delivers rich detail, texture and tone plus extraordinary color reproduction in the green, red, yellow and orange color ranges resulting in breathtaking photo-art. Employing the Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology along with a sophisticated 7,680 nozzle print-head structure, the Mark II model provides significantly faster production times, delivering approximately one-and-a-half times faster color print speeds on a 13″ x 19″ bordered print1,2 than the previous model.
The printer's matte black, photo black and gray inks reduce metamerism and provide high-density blacks and truly neutral monochrome prints. Metamerism is an effect in some printed “black-and-white” images where composite gray inks (achieved with combinations of cyan, magenta and yellow ink) make image areas appear a different color hue under different lighting conditions (such as sunlight, fluorescent light and incandescent light). This aberration is due to the differences in spectral reflectance properties of each of the composite colors.
The Canon PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer is scheduled to be available in May for an estimated selling price of $849.993.
PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer
The eight-color PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer – cyan, magenta, yellow, photo cyan, photo magenta, photo black, red, and green – delivers an even glossiness and vivid color experience rivaling that of positive film for photographers. The Pro9000 Mark II's impressive quality and speed are the result of the Canon FINE print head technology coupled with the Company's high-performance, high-density 6,144-nozzle print head which is capable of producing nearly invisible ink droplets of two-picoliters. Thanks in part to an enhanced double encoder system for media control, the PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II achieves three times faster print speeds over its predecessor, producing a bordered 13″ x 19″ size black and white photographic print in approximately 1 minute, 23 seconds2.
The Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer is scheduled to be available in May for an estimated selling price of $499.993.
Woot! Woot!
Anyone?
I owned the Pro9500 for exactly a year now, and this printer was nothing but a pleasure to own. I produced stunning, stunning prints out of my XT and 1ds MarkIII.
I just dont see why they squeeze a mark II out of this printer? it is the same model, shape, weight, same beautiful Lucia colors, and same features, about 98% similar!
The only difference I see is the new shiny golden emblem on the printer. It looks like the only thing updated was badge name.
I currently own the Pro9000, and also a pleasure. Perfect prints both PC and PictBridge connect from my 30D. The replacement cartridges are very moderately priced also, not to mention I’ve picked up quite a few on clearance from a big box electronics store that is going out of business, which will remain nameless in this post.
Pick up a 1st generation and save yourself $150-$200 dollars, I see no “real” difference…
Maybe the faster print times. But if you have a client that needs it right then and there, the FASTER time means less time with the customer.
Less time to UPSELL another print or two…hmmmmmm
Oh yeah. I envision Canon’s PMA booth being massively overcrowded with Pixma addicts, laughing at Epson Stylus fanboys and their lack of dual nano-dropplet controler.
Woot!
Its good point. However, the speed is so marginal, I dont think few minutes make a difference.
One thing I was hoping for is that “Forced Margin” to be not forced. Also, if I ran out of ink in one of the ten cartridge, the whole printer stops and demand a new cartridge.
Its the only thing that annoys me reeeaaaaaaaaal bad.
Hey, I’ve been interested in the 9500 but a friend of mine who owned one for a few weeks said his would only print 13 x 19 prints with a rather large border (not full bleed like advertised). What is your experience.
yeah, this has undoubtedly been Canon’s best PMA ever! never seen so many announcements…
I havea Pixma 9000 first generation. The images it produces are excellent but there are two problems :
1. The high ink useage and its price – horribly expensive in Europe.
2. The margin on fine art papers. The software adds a huge 35mm margin around the image so I’m obliged to use A3+ paper in order to print a full A4 size image.
What is really needed isn’t a new printer but an update to the software to give a user defined margin.
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Exactly, Thank you.
CANON GIVE US UPDATE, ALSO MAKE OUR PRINTER PRINT EVEN WHEN ONE INK CARTRIDGE IS EMPTY…… please.
Does anyone have trouble with metamerism? I have a 9500 which I love but the metamerism on some of my prints is really ugly, especially on high contrast color prints on luster paper. Any suggestions? I don’t have the money to upgrade to the 9500 MarkII as my printer is only a year old. Thanks
Does anyone who owns a 9500 know what the maximum printable area is on cardstock? I have a project that would neet to be printed out to about 12.5″ of the 13″ paper. Any way to do that with this printer? Thanks.
Does it only do this (35mm margin) on fine art papers but not on regular paper? With regular paper can it print to 13″ width? Thanks.
I am using this camera for college football. That means afternoon outside sport shooting. I have gotten great action shots. The video is easy enough.