Canon Pixma Pro-1 ink cartridges

With no less than 12 individual ink cartridges, the Canon Pixma Pro 1 has more cartridges than any other printer outside the companies large format range. Best value can be obtained by purchasing the multipacks, one offering all the mono cartridges and the other a full set of colours.

Canon Pixma Pro-1 Review

It's no secret that Canon has actually been playing catch-up to Epson when it comes to exhibition-quality photograph printing. Yet the new Pro-1 isn't panting for breath. Canon has designed it for the purpose of commercial, professional tasks designed not just for exhibition but for years of enjoyment.

While Canon considers the Pro-1 the perfect mate with regard to the high-end photos of commercial photographers, you don't have to manage a photography studio to enjoy the Pro-1. We believe it might find a place with just about any photographer who really likes image caliber, precision and also consistency.

Canon has fitted it with a full complement of black inks making it the very first 13x19 unit the corporation has created for monochrome printing.

In the rear end left is your power cord connection and in the backside right are the two wired connections: USB and Ethernet.

Towards the top right front are the Power button and also the Resume key with modest LEDs. Upon the very top of the unit above these is the ink compartment switch that opens the drawers so you're able to install ink. And actually left of these switches is the PictBridge USB port.

The front of the unit comes down in to the output tray, revealing the cover to the CD printing slot over it. The output tray itself stretches out in three segments. A Misfeed button is upon the right part of the output tray drawer.

Around the backside, an input tray folds out in two parts to help support 13x19 media.

On top, the common Canon input tray along with the four-leaf foldout holder acts as a rear cover. Plus the front cover opens up to give access to the print head.

The first pictures were actually all printed using the High quality setting in the printer driver. Sky was sky blue, the cliffs were sharp and rocky, the trees stood out, the stream looked cool. We felt like we could go walking straight into the photograph.

Our preliminary opinion is actually that the Pro-1 greyscale prints are very vibrant prints. It makes use of five monochrome grey Canon Pixma Pro-1 ink cartridges: Photo Black, Matte Black, Dark Grey, Grey and also Light Grey. Which makes for full fine detail in the shadows as well as even tonal gradations inside the midtones. Plus there is absolutely no cartridge transferring required when shifting from matte to glossy papers.

The Pro-1 was built to manage a wide variety of papers starting from common photo papers to fine arts media.

We experimented with a variety of papers. End results were solid and also trustworthy while using the Canon Pixma Pro-1 printer ink cartridges.

Plus we tried Canon's Fine Arts papers, as well. Both in colour as well as black and white.

We found it remarkably difficult to end up getting a bad print with the Canon Pixma Pro-1 printer cartridges. Moreover our initial print was more than adequate. The largest distinction we found was in fact with the black and white prints. The Pro-1 was able to create a neutral print when others created a monochromatic print with a slight colour cast.

The Pro-1 was a breeze to set up plus the very first prints out of the box were actually good enough to frame. It started up speedily in the morning and in addition shut down rapidly at night, running reliably and quietly all day long. We endured absolutely no difficulty feeding paper or CDs, zero paper jams, not any crashes, simply no issues whatsoever. It was in fact easy to produce stunning prints.