Pixma Pro9500 Mark II

Anyone have any experience with this printer? Good/bad/ opinions?

I got it with a 5DII rebate deal.
It's the one and only photo printer I've used.
It was a lot more difficult to get set up and dialed in than I imagined along with getting paper profiles and setting the printer up to be able to soft print and print out of CS4.

and now, have you been printing? How have your results been?

I haven't printed for a few months. Lack of time. I still need to sort out an issue with my Ilford pearl with regard to soft proof to print output brightness. I tend to go in spurts. But I did get two major house projects done this summer once it stop raining.

The printer is great; the photos that come out are unbeliavable. You wont have problems with the papers if you use the canon brand ones.
I do have some problems with matching the colors that come out with the ones i see on my screen but I chalk it up to my inexperience. (Which reminds me that Ill have to post a question here about that)

sunking39

What specific paper(s) are you using?

I love mine. Been printing on it for like a year and a half now. I'm a big fan of the Ilford gold fibre silk paper and their ICC profile that almost exactly matches the image on my calibrated monitor.

sdipirro

I may give that paper a go. My pearl prints out as slightly dingy compared to my soft proof on my calibrated monitor.

windpig wrote in post #13062007
sunking39

What specific paper(s) are you using?

Pro Platinum

For you owners, how many full-color photos can your print on standard A4 sized paper with full ink cartridges?

Kaleidoscope wrote in post #13067446
For you owners, how many full-color photos can your print on standard A4 sized paper with full ink cartridges?

Hmm, I haven't run an actual test on this, but once several years ago I did run a test using full bleed 13x18 prints. My ink was OEM HP photo ink, and the paper was top-of-the-line HP photo paper. My cost-per-print before the first cartridge ran out of at least one color came out to be maybe $5 per print.

Later, I ran things through my head and figured a full bleed A4 print (letter-size 8.5x11) would be somewhere around a dollar per print, but that is guesswork. And, that was several years ago. I don't know how it would figure at today's prices.