Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II & PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Advanced Photo Printers

Canon has officially launched new, Mark II versions of its PIXMA Pro9000 and PIXMA Pro9500 photo printers – both of which, in the initial iterations, have proved especially popular with amateur and professional photographers alike – and the latter of which utilises Lucia brand pigment-based inks.

“Canon is known within the professional photographer community for providing the right output tools to manage their photographic creations and the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer continues to deliver on that tradition with its superior quality and archiveability,” said Yuichi Ishizuka, senior vice president and general manager, Consumer Imaging Group, Canon U.S.A. “Additionally, with the growing number of enthusiasts capturing professional-quality photographs with digital SLR cameras, it is only natural to want to maintain creative control over their photos by printing the images themselves on products like the new Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer. These professional and emerging photographers understand and appreciate the creative control that Canon provides over image quality from capture to output.”

Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer

The eight-color PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer – cyan, magenta, yellow, photo cyan, photo magenta, photo black, red, and green – delivers an even glossiness and vivid color experience rivaling that of positive film for photographers. The Pro9000 Mark II’s impressive quality and speed are the result of the Canon FINE print head technology coupled with the Company’s high-performance, high-density 6,144-nozzle print head which is capable of producing nearly invisible ink droplets of two-picoliters. Thanks in part to an enhanced double encoder system for media control, the PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II achieves three times faster print speeds over its predecessor, producing a bordered 13″ x 19″ size black and white photographic print in approximately 1 minute, 23 seconds.

Key Features:

• 8-color ink system, with additional red and green inks – enhanced color reproduction
• 2pl ink droplet and 4800 x 2400dpi photo print resolution
• ChromaLife 100 ink system – long-lasting photos up to 100-year album life
• Ambient Light Adjustment – optimal photos across varying light conditions
• 2-way paper feed (auto sheet feeder & front feeder)
• Support high quality photo & fine art papers
• DVD/CD direct print
• Support Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4 plug-in software (get complex settings with just a few clicks)
• Support Canon Digital Photo Professional software for RAW file direct print
• A3+ Photo lab quality printing

Canon PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer

The new PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer features ten pigment-based ink colors – photo black, matte black and gray as well as cyan, magenta, yellow, photo cyan, photo magenta, red and green, allowing users the benefit of a wide color gamut for stunning color prints, as well as three levels of black for true black-and-white photographs. Designed for the pro and “pro-sumer” photographers, the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II provides outstanding resolution and droplet control utilizing Canon’s double-encoder system to produce high-quality portfolio pieces or gallery-quality prints for the marketplace. The Pro9500 Mark II delivers rich detail, texture and tone plus extraordinary color reproduction in the green, red, yellow and orange color ranges resulting in breathtaking photo-art. Employing the Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology along with a sophisticated 7,680 nozzle print-head structure, the Mark II model provides significantly faster production times, delivering approximately one-and-a-half times faster color print speeds on a 13″ x 19″ bordered prin than the previous model.

The printer’s matte black, photo black and gray inks reduce metamerism and provide high-density blacks and truly neutral monochrome prints. Metamerism is an effect in some printed “black-and-white” images where composite gray inks (achieved with combinations of cyan, magenta and yellow ink) make image areas appear a different color hue under different lighting conditions (such as sunlight, fluorescent light and incandescent light). This aberration is due to the differences in spectral reflectance properties of each of the composite colors.

Key Features:

• 10-colour A3+ photo printing for professionals
• Specially equips 3 monochrome inks – Professional quality neutral monochrome prints
• Exceptional image permanence with LUCIA all pigment ink system, long-lasting photos up to 100-year album life
• Ambient Light Adjustment – optimal photos across varying light conditions
• 2-way paper feed (auto sheet feeder & front feeder)
• High quality photo & fine art papers support
• DVD/CD direct print
• Support Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4 plug-in software
• Get complex settings with just a few clicks
• Support Canon Digital Photo Professional software for RAW file direct print
• PictBridge direct print

Both the Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II and the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II photo printers are scheduled for release in May and will set you back in the region of $500 and $850 respectively.