Features:

• Professional inkjet printer features a 10-color pigment ink system for extraordinarily vivid images up to 13 x 19 inches
• FINE printhead technology for maximum 4800 x 2400 dpi resolution
• 2 separate paper paths support fine art paper
• Includes matte black, photo black, and gray inks for professional-quality black and white prints
• Dimensions: 26 x 7.5 x 14 in. (WxHxD); weighs 30.8 pounds

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
color print resolution: 4800 x 2400 dpi * 10-color Lucia pigment ink system with individual color cartridges * Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology * supports a wide variety of professional and fine art printing papers up to 1.2mm thick * Direct Print Port for photo printing with PictBridge-compliant cameras and camcorders *

Manufacturer Product Description :
In one giant leap, the all-new PIXMA Pro9500 takes your work from merely "beautiful" to "extraordinary." With 10 full-time color pigment inks, advanced new software, camera-direct printing of contact sheets, and support for fine art papers up to 13x19 inch, it's the new standard for creating your own professional images.

The Canon PIXMA Pro 9500 Professional Photo Printer: 4800 x 2400 dpi. 10-color pigment ink system 7,680-nozzle print head is designed to deliver thousands of 3-picoliter ink droplets per second in one pass.

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For photographers that need high-contrast or beautifully reproduced colors, photographers need look no further than the PIXMA Pro9500. Its 10-color pigment ink system includes gray, black and matte black cartridges that collectively produce monochrome photographs of unrivaled quality on both fine art paper and glossy photo paper. With pigment ink, photographers will enjoy incredibly smooth gradations and can create long-lasting prints that resist the damaging effects of light for up to 100 years.

Professional color and detail
In one giant leap, the all-new PIXMA Pro9500 Photo Printer sets the new standard for creating your own professional images. It features Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology, producing a maximum resolution of 4800 x 2400 dpi. Its high-precision, 7,680-nozzle print head is designed to deliver thousands of 3-picoliter ink droplets per second in one pass. This high-density ink placement produces incredibly sharp detail and minimal graininess, enabling you to create beautiful photo lab quality photos up to 13 x 19 inch.

Full time, 10-color pigment ink system
For high-contrast photographs and beautifully reproduced colors, look no further than the PIXMA Pro9500 Photo Printer. Its 10-color pigment ink system includes gray, photo black and matte black cartridges that let you produce monochrome photographs of superb quality, both on Fine Art and Glossy photo paper. These pigment inks yield incredibly smooth gradations, creating long-lasting prints that can resist the damaging effects of light for up to 100 years. Plus, all 10 inks sit in the printer at once, eliminating the inconvenience of ink swapping.

Exclusive Canon software for photo fine-tuning.
Want more control over the print process? With the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint Pro software plug-in, this next-generation photo printer can be seamlessly integrated into a computer workflow. Easy-PhotoPrint Pro augments other post-production software, including Canon Digital Photo Professional software (DPP version 2.1) and Adobe® Photoshop® CS/CS2 software. You can use customized layout options to produce contact prints, prints with shooting information—even pattern prints of a single image that let you select the optimal color balance, brightness and contrast settings. For further fine-tuning, choose from three color adjustments that can be saved with personal settings: Enable ICC Profile, Photo Color and Linear Tone.

Rating : - Canon needs better R&D before releasing a product. (VERY restricting)
Several problems with this printer, please do your research to save you much aggravation. Well documented problem with glossy paper is the least of the its problems. I print predominantly on matte papers, and gloss is not a concern for me. However, printing on Canon Matte Photo Paper gives very mediocre results, the prints are low-contrast and dull. One would think that it's a character of a matte print, however, printing on Fine Art Matte Photo Paper gives excellent color and contrast that is extremely close to the original image. You would think, the problem is solved, right? Wrong. The fine Art paper, though practically the same thickness as regular matte photo paper cannot be auto fed, which means you have to reconfigure the printer (watch "Transformers" for reference) and move it very far away from any walls, front-feed the paper and just when you think you have everything squared away, you are forced to two options: either print 13X19 or Letter size (nothing else) AND get a 35mm (1 1/2") margin. Selecting custom size forces you to print on any paper BUT Fine Art. Getting custom color profiles does not correct the issue. Printing on Fine Art paper with any selection to allow auto-feed or lesser margin will ruin the color, CATCH 22 ALL THE WAY. Seems like many people in forums are having similar problems and no one has found a fix for it. Canon's tech support says "you are using the printer not in the way it was meant to be used." I thought the word "Art" included "Creativity" in the definition. Being forced to ONLY 2 SIZES and 35mm Margin if you want to get a decent print (and that's at $5 a sheet!) does not fit the "PRO" or the "Fine Art" definition in my opinion.

I really could go on about many other caveats I've discovered, but these MAJOR things should steer many a Photographer/Artist away from this restricting machine.

Do not blame Pigment Inks for poor contrast. HP and Epson manage to do fine on any paper, as well as Canon on $5/sheet paper (only when you print on 75% of it).

I'm returning the printer and going back to the drawing board (HP or Epson).