How in the world do they test that since the printer is only a few years old? Well, they don't. However, Canon is boasting 100 years of life in these inks. In contrast to pigment based inks in most printers, dye based inks claim slightly improved color saturation, but at the expense of durability and color fastness of the ink over a long period of time. Since I almost always print on Canon luster paper, it's nice to have it right there. The profiles are specific to each type of paper. But the printer also comes with built-in ICC profiles which you'll see available in Photoshop and Lightroom as soon as you install the printer.

I do my color management with a Spyder colorimeter, which gets the screen quite close to the prints by itself. I always edit my photos on a color managed iMac 5k. Deep black blacks, gorgeous gradients, and dead-neutral grays without any tweaking. Print Qualityįirst of all, black and whites have never looked as good as they do on a Pixma Pro 100. A 13 x 19″ print is a decent, respectable size, and it's nice to be able to do prints that large right from my home office. Many other printers in this price category can't print this large, and for the style of prints that I do, anything under 11×16″ is just too small to be very usable. I love that this printer can print borderless so there is no white border around the edges of the print.įor me, the print size of the printer is a standout quality. The maximum print quality that this printer can handle is 4800px x 2400px, which equals out to about 250dpi on a 13″x19″ A3+ print. The Pixma Pro 100 can print photos up to A3+, which is 13″x19″. Now THAT, is a gorgeous black and white print! Max Print Size For an inexpensive pro-quality photo printer, it's an excellent choice. It comes with a very useful and well-designed plugin for Lightroom that makes printing easy, and the wireless feature makes it easy to use. It prints rich color borderless prints up to 13×19″ (A3+), and some of the best black and white prints I've seen.

In short, although the cost of ink for the Canon Pixma Pro 100 is especially high, the printer itself is absolutely fantastic.

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