Speedyw0n Loc: N.J.

Good morning all, Thank you for all the wonderful information. I think I’m going to go with the Canon 300. Thank you again for all your help.

1grumpybear

The Canon PRO-1000 I own (2). But something else to think about is profiling your printer for the different paper you may use and the monitor. Years ago I bought a Canon large format printer an iPF-8100 and was not happy with the results that I was getting. I called the company I bought it from, they told me the printer was working fine, but needed to profile my monitor and paper. They gave me a name to call, the person came out and profiled my monitor and the paper I had. The difference was night and day. (this was about 15 years ago) I ended up buying my own profiling system from Xrite.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

USE the printer. Ideally, you will turn over all the inks within a year or so. Don't let them get stale and dry out, or they will clog the printer. Print at least an 8x10 a week, and your heads should be clear.

Printer ratings are based on printing a page of characters, not full photographic images, so if all you print are photos, expect to use a lot of ink. Still, the EcoTank inks are relatively inexpensive compared to ink in cartridges. We have had trouble using them fast enough to turn them over!

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

I bought the Epson 8550 in June and so far in on the 4th replacement due to manufacturing defects. Hours on phone but printer puts spare ink on prints. It only happens on 11x14 size. It's hit or miss when it happens.
BTW prints 11x14 are beautiful

charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

I feel like I am lucky and when the Pro 100 went on sale like you said I bought 2.
I have a spare that now sits in our spare bedroom as a replacement.
I also got 2 batches of the paper that came with it.
BTW. I also have a Spider X Pro and what I see on my monitor is exactly what I get on the printer.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

I know you said you have 1,000 but if you want to bite the bullet, look ay the Canon 1000. I chose it from see a Canon printing demo and they used the Canon 1000. So I did and it's worth it. Ink is high but the cartridge is very large.

DebAnn Loc: Toronto

I went to the ProFusion show in Toronto yesterday where all the big-name photography producers were exhibiting. I was extremely impressed with the Epson p700 printer. Gorgeous prints possible in both colour and black & white. I also read some excellent reviews.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Epson P-series printers are the real deal if you need a pigment ink printer. They make exhibition quality, museum quality prints.

In 2003, I put a 44" Epson 9600 printer in a portrait lab. We made all our larger prints on it — anything bigger than 12x18 inches. In fact, it made the nicest prints of all the devices we used! However, it was very slow, and used very expensive inks and papers. The prints cost us about ten times what conventional silver halide prints cost to manufacture.

That 9600 used earlier versions of the same inks and heads used in the latest P9570 44" printers. As good as the 9600 was then, the P9570 is 20 years more advanced and refined...

Pigment ink prints last the longest of any photographic prints. Pigments are solid colors suspended in solvents. They directly reflect colored light.

Dye printers use transparent dyes suspended in solvents. Dyes fade much faster, because there is a lot less colored material deposited on the paper. Dye prints can be a little brighter than pigment prints, with finer highlight detail. Pigment prints are richer in the shadows, and can have wider color gamuts.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Either printer you buy take a look at JTOOLMAN videos and Precision Colors for ink. I have used them for years and great products and never had a single problem.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Very good choice for a 13" pigment photo printer.

Ron 717 Loc: Pennsylvania

I have a Pixma Pro 100 and love it. I have owned several Epson Printers and not one of them lasted more than a year or so, then started with printhead clogging. Spent many hours trying to clear the clogs and wasting ink trying to clear them. I will never buy another Epson printer, my Canon printers, I have three, have never given me an ounce of trouble.
If it were me, I would purchase a Canon Pro 200 or 300.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

I agree. A hog member upgraded his printer and gave me his Old pro-100. Still working perfectly. I have 2 other Canon 6 color printers and hardly use any of them. Have never had a nozzle issue with Canon

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

I have an ET8850. It is a six-color printer which uses dye based inks with one Photo Black that is pigment ink. This is NOT an archival printer, so for fine art gallery prints and such, or photos that will be passed down for generations, it would not likely be suitable, because the dye based inks don't last long enough. I use it for printing note cards for sale at arts/crafts shows. For that purpose, and anything that doesn't have to last 300 years, it is a great, economical printer. Over 100 5x7 cards and some other smallish prints and tests used about 1/4 of the ink in the tanks. My old Canon would have been empty...

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

I guess you print every day. I threw my Pro 100 in the trash because after sitting a week it wouldn't print anything, even after soaking the print head.

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

I'm on my 4th 8550 in 5 months due to manufacturing defects.
Do you notice ink on the plastic pieces inside?
This 3rd printer collects wet ink and then it winds up on the back of my 11x14 prints.
Do you do any maintained to keep this ink pool clean?
Look at the lower right blasting piece that has a pool of ink on it

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