Canon 1901B017 Brochure - Page 10

Printer output: ©William Neill Photographers seeking to produce their own gallery-grade inkjet prints have had limited choices until now. Understanding the demands of professional photographers-especially those who shoot with the EOS System-Canon has responded with the imagePROGRAF series Photo Printers featuring impressive new technologies that bring unprecedented quality and performance to large format photo printing. It's never been simpler or more cost-effective to produce gallery-grade prints at home or in the studio. LUCIA 12-Color Ink Set The 12-color Canon LUCIA ink set delivers a substan- tially wider color gamut than LUCIA Ink competitive printers. The far greater range of available colors produces richer, more vibrant prints with signifi- cantly reduced metamerism (the perceived shift of color balance when viewing prints Canon LUCIA Ink set vs. Adobe RGB Canon RC Photogloss L-50 under different lighting conditions). The ink set includes three levels of gray-Black, Gray, and Photo Gray-to deliver black-and-white photo prints of exceptional tonal detail. The inks are pigment-based, ensuring long-lasting prints with excellent archival characteristics. imagePROGRAF printers ship with a starter set of all 12 inks. Photo-Lithographic UserReplaceable Dual Print Heads An advanced head design uses two print heads-each with 15,360 nozzles-yielding over 30,000 nozzles. This not only makes possible extremely high output resolution but also ensures faster, more reliable printing. Photographers no longer need to choose between print speed and image quality. The large number of nozzles also substantially increase print head life so that the printer requires less frequent maintenance. And because the print heads are user-replaceable, maintenance can be performed with minimal downtime and no costly service calls. 16-Bit Printing Support While conventional inkjet printers are 8-bit-perchannel devices, requiring a conversion from 16 bits somewhere along the workflow, the imagePROGRAF printers provide advanced direct output support for 16-bit files. A supplied plugin enables printing of 16-bit RAW images directly from Digital Photo Professional software. Also included is an export module for direct printing of 16-bit files from Adobe® Photoshop®. These features provide the photographer with the first true wide-dynamic-range workflow option from capture to output. Images are reproduced with smoother tonal gradations for greater photorealism. Dynamic-range-related problems, such as posterization and banding, are virtually eliminated. Automated Black Ink Cartridge Switching The ink set includes Black and Matte Black, only one of which will be used depending on output media selection. While other printers require the user to perform an inconvenient and wasteful manual operation to flush unused ink and switch cartridges, the imagePROGRAF printers automate the process. With both Black ink cartridges loaded and live at all times, the switchover is fast and wasteless, performed with a simple push of a button. Unsurpassed Output Media Selection Canon imagePROGRAF printers include support for a wide range of papers and specialty output media, such as RC photo papers, transparent film, and fine art papers. Superior carriage design enables the printer to handle a wide range of media thicknesses and finishes. Moreover, the Media Configuration Tool supplied with the printer enables users to update the software, using a periodically published database, to accommodate new Canon and other popular media as they become available. 20 Canon Photo Printers: The Perfect Complement Combining unparalleled Canon expertise in photography, photocopying, and printing technologies, PIXMA Pro photo printers are redefining output quality, performance, and convenience. Canon PIXMA Pro photo printers are meeting, and even surpassing, the expectations of the most demanding photographers. ChromaLife100 Ink System The PIXMA Pro9000 features the highly refined dye-based Canon ChromaLife100 ink system, which uses Red and Green inks in addition to Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Photo Cyan, Photo Magenta, and Photo Black. This advanced 8-color system reproduces a much wider color gamut than conventional inkjet printers, delivering a color range that rivals color slide film. The dye-based ink set further ensures vividly Canon Photo Printer Line-up brilliant colors and a high-luster surface finish that enhances the beauty of printed images. Long-Lasting Photos Canon ChromaLife100 ink technology also delivers prints that withstand the test of time. PIXMA Pro prints will resist fading for up to 100 years when kept in select albums. When combined with genuine Canon photo media, prints typically exhibit 30-year light fastness and 10-year gas fastness. FINE Print Head Technology Canon's high-precision FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering) print heads each have thousands of nozzles designed to release microscopic ink droplets as small as 1 picoliter in a single pass, resulting in fast, high resolution printing. Capable of plotting thousands of ink droplets each second, the high-density nozzle pitch produces sharper detail and less grain. 10-Color Pigment Ink System Featuring the same LUCIA pigment ink found in the imagePROGRAF printers, the PIXMA Pro9500's 10-color pigment ink set produces professionalquality, archival prints. The Gray, Photo Black and Matte Black ink produce monochrome photographs of unrivaled quality on fine art and glossy paper. Gray ink reduces grain, banding and metamerism and virtually eliminates color shifts. Unlike Black ink that increases contrast, Matte Black ink increases black density on fine art papter while maintaining detail in shadows. With 10 individual ink tanks, users can replace a single color, reducing waste and saving money. Since the Pro9500's ink is less sensitive to light and environmental factors, prints have incredibly smooth gradations and are archival. Canon's 17-inch, wide-format imagePROGRAF iPF5100 features the exclusive LUCIA 12-color pigment ink set that yields a tremendous range of colors and grays. For smooth, detailed color and black and white images, no matter the media. Canon's FINE photo-lithographic heads ensure accurate plotting of even the finest details thanks to over 30,000 nozzles. Matte Black ink and Black ink cartridges are both loaded in the printer at the same time, enabling automatic switching without wasting time or ink. For the highest quality color and grayscale photographs, up to 13" x 19", one needs to look no further than the PIXMA Pro9500. With the LUCIA 10-color pigment ink system, there's no other printer out there that can print both stunning color and smooth black and white photographs like the Pro9500. The inclusion of Gray, Matte and Photo Black pigment tanks, combined with 3 pl droplets ensure the smoothest gradations possible and the results are prints that will astound. Capable of quickly printing lab-quality prints up to 13" x 19", Canon's PIXMA Pro9000 raises the bar thanks to its combination of speed and versatility. Its FINE print head generates a maximum resolution of 4800 x 2400 dpi and ChromaLife100 dye-based inks create long lasting, beautiful photos. Canon's Easy-PhotoPrint Pro software, including plug-ins for Digital Photo Professional V2.1 and Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3, combined with a new printer driver for advanced color control, ensuring accurate prints from the start. Printer output (top to bottom): ©George Lepp, ©Eddie Tapp, ©Michel Tcherevkoff 21