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 points
The Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer offers particular print quality and may even print on paper sizes of 13 x 19 inches. This printer also supports thicker media. If you are using fine-art versions of paper or the matte-finish variants, you may get superb prints on these papers.
Features
The Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer has 10 ink cartridges which are pigment-based. Apart from general photo inks like light cyan, cyan, light magenta, magenta, yellow etc. you will likewise find hues like red, green, gray as well as two dissimilar variants of black. One version is when you wish to print shiny 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 when it comes to is the clearance aspect at the rear of the printer. This is necessitated when you have to fit in thicker papers when the flat type paper path is used.
High quality prints
In 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 may find that Canon’s assert of supplying 10 dissimilar inks actually provides better outputs, to be true. When printing on the shiny or super shiny 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 life
In terms of print speeds, the Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer does not do a very good occupation when equated to it is 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 may closely 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 rather small, specially when you look at typical printer ink cartridges applied for large-sized printers. Compared to a lot of other printers within the same range, the Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer does not devour ink as quickly, which in turn warrantees a longer shelf life of the cartridges and inks.
Our verdict
Overall, the Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer is an magnificent choice if you often use matte as well as fine-art type of papers for your prints. Print quality in such formats is superb and better than some other major brands in the segment. However, this will only work to it is vantage if you have the latest drivers installed. In terms of prints on high gloss paper, the results are not that impressive. With a pricing of around 850 USD, the Canon Pixma Pro9500 printer may not be the most inexpensive choice, in particular when equated to the 700 USD PhotoSmart Pro B9180 from HP. Yet, these Canon printers deliver well and are a good choice for sure print types.
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