Bruce - A few weeks ago I wrote about my old Canon printer biting the dust. I replaced it with a Canon Pro9500. I'm just posting this to give you another alternative.
Unlike the most other Canon printers, the 9500 is pigment based. It also has three blacks for better black and white. For color, it has an added Red and Green ink to help expand the gamut. I've run test prints on the Illford Smooth Pearl and Smooth gloss using the Illford printer drivers. I'm getting excellent results after playing around a bit. Now, just to cover all the bases, I'm going to run some tests with the Canon and a few other select papers just to see if there are additional improvements to be had. With my old printer, BW usually had a very slight some color cast. I tinted most everything to cover it up. The BWs with the 9500 are very good, but it's exposing the fact that I need to improve my BW printing skills a lot. On the color side, the difference in detail and color gamut is significant. I've started printing everything in adobe RGB as a default and will experiment with the ProPhoto color space. As far as your decision is concerned - unless you are extremely lucky to have a great commercial printer at your disposal, you'll probably do a better job yourself if you have the time. I'm not saying you should go out and buy Canon printer instead of an Epson. That's a personal decision. I'm just throwing out a few random thoughts that might help you zero in on what's important to you. GS -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
