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.