Canon Wordtank Idf - 9500 Manual
Canon Pixma 9500 Mk IIThis review specifically looks at using the printer for highest quality print output.It comes with some additional software and features for windows based PCs, which we’ve not covered in detail, since we tend to concentrate more on print quality and a fully colour managed workflow. The review unit we received was already working, so we didn’t have to install the print head unit or inks to get it going.This is a one off setup procedure that should only take a few minutes, but do be careful to remove all the various packing tape used to keep things from moving during shipping.Also, be careful to get the right cartridges installed in the right place.Note the red LEDs on the corner of each cartridge, these flash to indicate low ink and go out for a cart that needs replacing.The printer will also perform an automatic print head alignment when initialised. This is also available as an option in the printer utility software. Previous experience suggests that it might be worthwhile repeating the procedure once your first cartridge of ink gets used up, and the print heads are well ‘bedded in’.First impressions of the printer are that it is solidly built – no plastic feel.There are lots of nicely designed aspects of the printer, such as the damped front and rear paper trays.OK, it doesn’t matter to print quality that the front tray doesn’t drop into place suddenly, but it suggests that if that much care has been given to such features, then care has gone into the whole design.
I tested this on several visitors to the office, who were all suitably impressed, before seeing a single print.I mentioned that if you are using front fed paper, you might need to move the printer to make room at the back.By lifting the front of the printer, two small wheels at the back enable it to easily slide forward.Simple, and well thought out. These were reproduced very well on both the glossy papers I tested.If need be, you can print additional image information from the file’s metadata.Even if you normally print from Photoshop, it’s worth trying out the options available in the plugin. It’s the sort of stuff I wouldn’t use that often, but when I did, it would save me a stack of work.The plugin offers additional colour correction options (‘Color Adjustment’ above) which allow you to pick a portion of the image and tile it on a test print with colour variations (‘Advanced Pattern Print’). Not an approach I’d personally use for my print workflow, but an example of the wide range of functionality included in the supplied software. Black and white printingThe standard way to print black and white, is just to tick the greyscale box in the driver (or plugin – see the screen shot above). Hi Keith, I realise this is a bit out of date now, but I have one of these printers. You may or may not remember that I also have recently purchased an ipf6400, so why am I bothering with the smaller printer.
Basically for smaller prints that will fit into some small hand made books is the reason.Which brings me to my point. I got some profiles made for various hahnemuhle papers, photo Rag and a couple of the baryta papers. Photo rag was fine, and at first glance, the baryta papers looked fantastic. Until I looked closely. All the glossy baryta and pearl pictures suffered from pizza wheel dots, in pairs, running the length of the print. Noticeable in shadow areas, but not highlight areas.
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Calumet swopped the printer and the new one exhibited the same issue. I eventually gave up using the papers as no amount of searching could shed any light on this issue. Have you come across this? I notice there are now new downloads available from Canon since autumn last year. Maybe they will help.CheersPaul.
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It’s pigment ink, so depending on the paper you are not going to get as good results compared with dye based inks, whether Epson, Canon or HP. The choice of media settings, media and ink results in an awful lot of combinations.The only real way round this for pigment ink is to use a gloss coat of some form.A lot depends on the user’s definition of a ‘Good’ glossy photo – if gloss photo is that important I’ll always suggest dye based inks or a pigment ink printer with gloss overcoat.The photos I tried in the review were to my mind quite acceptable – it’s what you get with pigment inks.Canon themselves would point to the 9000 for the glossy photo fans (I prefer a lustre finish paper). Hello,First, thanks very much for your article, this is really added value, that’s great.I am using Mac OS 10.6 and aperture 3, and I can not get any good result when I print. Huge gap between my screen and the printing, no sharpness, no contrast, no colors, really bad.I did download ICC to match Fine art paper I bought from Canon and Hahnemuehle but no result. I even tried with a former OS 10.5 or with Photoshop element, no result.May I ask you if you have any idea about what I could do?Thanks for reading,Regards,Mikael.