Canon Launches the PIXMA Pro 9500 May 31, 2007 08:39 by John Sollars
At long last, the eagerly awaited PIXMA Pro 9500 is here. Originally planned for launch in 2006, this A3 printer had had photographers and imaging professionals drooling for almost 12 months!.
The PIXMA Pro9500 has been designed from the ground up, using a 10-colour cartridge system featuring new formulation "Lucia" pigment inks. At the professional end of the photographic market, customers have usually employed 2 machines - 1 dedicated to colour output and the other optimised for monochrome work. Understandably this is both expensive to perate, difficutl to setup and profile, and takes up unnecessary space. The Pixma Pro 9500 package, delivering high quality, durabel colour and monochrome output up to A3+ in size.
- 10 Colour Pigment ink
The Pixma Pro9500's 10-colour pigment ink system delivers the accuracy and durability required for portraits, exhibits and fine art work. Red and Green ink tanks broaden the colour gamut for increased accuracy when printing highly saturated colours. With three dedicated monochrome inks - Photo Black, Matte Black and Grey, the PIXMA Pro9500 also offers a new level of quality in professional monochrome printing.
- Why Pigment Ink?
Pigment ink is the preferred ink type for commercial photo and fine art printing. It maintains high contrast levels, clarity and colour saturation over extended periods of time. Pigment inks add a solid layer of colour that prints extremely well on both smooth photo papers and fine art papers.
- Single Ink System
The Pixma Pro9500 uses Canon's single ink system, maximising printing efficiency by providing individually replaceable ink tanks for each colour. An ink level window on each tank allows for quick checks of ink status and an LED provides a visual warning when an ink tank is empty or running low. In addition to this both momochrome and colour inks are located in the print head, so the printer can automatically swithc between the two without the user having to swap tanks or purge ink.
- Smoother Output
When printing in black and white, conventional printers create light grey areas using a combination oc CMYK inks, resulting in output that lacks depth and subtlety. The Pixma Pro9500's dedicated grey ink minimises the the use of colour inks, therefore producing a wider range of greyscale, with smooth graduated tones, perfect for printing neutral monochrome prints.
