Photo answers review
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The original PIXMA Pro9500 was a very popular photo quality inkjet model for Canon and this upgraded Canon PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II incarnation is sure to prove as popular, if not more so. The printer offers CD printing and A3+ maximum paper size handling. It also comes with a decent software package that is very easy to install and set up. It even comes supplied with a complimentary copy of Adobe Elements 6.0.
Design-wise, the Pro 9500 Mark II looks good, and when not in use the paper feeder and delivery trays both fold neatly away. The printer is a heavyweight model, at over 15kg, and the physical size and therefore desk footprint is sizeable too.
The printer can take the more creative and thicker art papers flat from the back to avoid them getting bent, or of course there is the option for normal paper to be fed through the top-loading area. This means that you have both the versatility of more artistic papers that are used to produce more technical prints on textured papers as well as the normal gloss, satin and matt variants.
The Canon has ten pigment ink cartridges, so the printer offers an excellent colour range. You have an extra red and green cartridge that expand the colour gamut, plus both photo and matte black inks are always installed, unlike other printers which require you to swap over a cartridge for these if required.
At the highest quality print setting, the PIXMA printer may at first appear slow at over 7 minutes to produce an A3 print, but that’s half the time taken by its nearest competitor at its best quality setting. This print time is at the best possible setting, which is the important time to measure a printer by. The quality is simply superb and if high quality prints are what you are after, then this model ticks all the right boxes.
Tonal range on the prints is very impressive and the monotone printing shows a quite excellent level of detail. It’s fair to say that you may expect all this for the extra cash, but you really do get value for money and with the Canon papers, the results are stunning.
Print method Inkjet
Print resolution Up to 4800x2400p
Droplet size 3pl
Ink system Canon Lucia inks
Cartridges Ten individual colours
Max. print size A3+
Print time A3 HQ 7mins 51secs
Connectivity USB 2.0 port
CD printing Yes
Size (hxwxd) 355x600x193mm
Weight 15.2kg