Canon Pixma Pro9500 Printer and Canon PGI 9 Capsules
The Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer signals Canon’s foray into the high-end segment of the photo-printer niche. With major printing giants like HP and Epson having a monopoly of sorts in this niche, these Canon printers still manage to provide a good amount of competition.Plus pointsThe Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer offers exceptional print quality and can even print on paper canon printer ink inches. This printer also supports thicker media. If you are using fine-art versions of paper or the matte-finish variants, you can get superb prints on these papers.FeaturesThe Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer has 10 ink cartridges which are pigment-based. Apart from standard photo inks like light cyan, cyan, light magenta, magenta, yellow etc. you will also find hues like red, green, gray as well as two different variants of black. One version is when you wish to print glossy photos and the other is for the matte-finish prints as well as those on fine-art type paper. Installation of the printer is easy and the only aspect you need to worry about is the clearance aspect at the rear of the printer. This is needed when you have to fit in thicker papers when the flat type paper path is used.High quality printsIn order to get the best print outputs from your Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer, you would need to download the latest drivers from the Canon website. Once you do this, you can find that Canon’s claim of providing 10 different inks actually provides better outputs, to be true. When printing on the glossy or super glossy papers, the print quality is not as good as the ones provided by Epson or HP photo printers. However, in terms of the matte finish kind of paper, the print quality is superb. Images in black and white have a good output with these Canon printers and the gradations in tone in these prints are very good.Ink lifeIn terms of print speeds, the Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer does not do a very good job when compared to its competitors. With 6 minutes to print a print of 8×10, 3 minutes for a print of 4×6 inches and 16 minutes for prints of 12×18 inches, these Canon printers can almost be called slow. The Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer runs on Canon PGI 9 ink cartridges and each of these are available at a price of 15 dollars. The size of these cartridges is quite small, especially when you look at typical printer ink cartridges used for large-sized printers. Compared to many other printers within the same range, the Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer does not devour ink as quickly, which in turn guarantees a longer shelf life of the cartridges and inks.
