Anybody jump from i9900 to Pixma Pro9000?

Any significant improvements? I'm actually holding out for the Pro9500, but was just curious as to the performance of the 9000.

I was holding out for the 9500, but I gave in (Canon now says sometime in 2007 for the Pro9500). I went from an old S9000 to the Pixma Pro 9000 last week. My first observations are that the flesh tones are improved, and the blues seem more true. Also, black and white has no undesired tint, but is very slow.

Rich

thebrewer wrote in post #2573601
I was holding out for the 9500, but I gave in (Canon now says sometime in 2007 for the Pro9500). I went from an old S9000 to the Pixma Pro 9000 last week. My first observations are that the flesh tones are improved, and the blues seem more true. Also, black and white has no undesired tint, but is very slow.

Rich

Yeah, I thought about caving in, but I'm having a hard time justifying jumping from the i9900 to the Pro9000. Aside from a few nifty improvements, it's pretty much a lateral move. I think the Pro9500 will be a much more noticeable upgrade. I'd love to do more accurate B&W prints. I guess I'll continue to hold out and continue to squeeze more juice out of the i9900 for now.

I was about to cave in and go for the Canon Pro9000... I didnt want to wait for the Pro9500...

BUT... now I am looking into the R1800 and the R2400 Epson printing systems. Both Pigment based printers...

Anyone look into these? I hear the B&Ws off these are very good.

In all honesty, I'm not sure either would be a significant upgrade Malone.
The 9000 as you say is almost the same printer with similar dye inks,. (the the new Chromalife should be better for archival. It's sad that Canon would not allow the driver upgrade required to use these inks in the i9900 here in the US)

The 9500 is a switch to Pigment.. which might be seen as an upgrade, but again to me it's more of a "change" than an upgrade if you know what I mean.

think about what your motivation for switching is..

If it's to sell prints professionally and therefore offer more archival prints, and to use far more types of paper, then you want to go with Pigment.

I know a few people.. friends of mine, who own both pigment and dye... and they say both do different things... and put out different results.

I still have no idea which one I want tho =)

I dont know if I should just scrap the entire printer project and just keep going to costco, mpix, and local labs...

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #2574033
In all honesty, I'm not sure either would be a significant upgrade Malone.
The 9000 as you say is almost the same printer with similar dye inks,. (the the new Chromalife should be better for archival. It's sad that Canon would not allow the driver upgrade required to use these inks in the i9900 here in the US)

The 9500 is a switch to Pigment.. which might be seen as an upgrade, but again to me it's more of a "change" than an upgrade if you know what I mean.

think about what your motivation for switching is..

If it's to sell prints professionally and therefore offer more archival prints, and to use far more types of paper, then you want to go with Pigment.

You're right, Jake. I'm not doing this gig for a living so I shouldn't even worry about it. What I really need to put my money into is a new PC with a multi-core processor. Thanks for your input, guys.

I built a pretty sweet intel duo core system... as my work horse to my server...

Got to say... works wonders with photoshop.

StealthLude wrote in post #2574757
I built a pretty sweet intel duo core system... as my work horse to my server...

Got to say... works wonders with photoshop.

Oh! Yes! Yes! Do tell!

haha ok.

Systems a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz chip. ASUS motherboard (highly recommend.. this is the 3-4th system I used ASUS with and never once had a problem, + their boards are very robust... 2 gigs ram, and 500 gig hard drives on raid 1... Gaming graphics card and various other things... Calibration etc...

This is all here just to compliment my storage server, which holds a total of 2000 gigs =) 3Ware raid card, Windows Server 2003 SBS, few of hard drives and dual Xeon processors.

I used to use a laptop and a Mac G5 1.8, but this system is a wonder to use... Ive had my Kasperski anti-virus software start a scheduled scan on a friday, while editing, and didnt even knotice it.... On my laptop, photoshop is almost unusable with AV running...

filters apply w/o even really thining... you get the idea.

Now i need a printer! I think im going to wait for a Canon PRO9500...

StealthLude wrote in post #2574792
Now i need a printer! I think im going to wait for a Canon PRO9500...

I'm doing that aswell. I've got a i850 at the moment, so it will be a pretty big jump for me. Problem is, I've been waiting for bloody ages now ! I was going to get a i9950 (UK version of i9900) before they even announced the Pro Series, but then I thought they would release a pigment-based system, as Epson had one out for a while. So I waited and waited and waited etc.. Then they announced the Pro series, now I'm waiting and waiting and ... oh you get the picture.

I've seen some retailers quoting prices for them over here. Around £500 (about $930). I hope this means we'll be seeing them for sale soon !

Gary.

well Lord. im in the same boat as you. i have the i9900, and although i love the prints it puts out i like the idea of longer archival inks on the pro9000 (and i wonder if it can print 8x10 in bordless, which the i9900 cant do). on the other hand, like you said, doesnt seem like a big upgrade. the pro9500 is what ive been waiting for, but it seems like its never going to come! and will probably be quite a bit more pricy when it does. ill probably hold out for the pro9500, and keep the i9900 for quick stuff (since the pigment ink takes 4times as long to print).

Billginthekeys wrote in post #2581672
(and i wonder if it can print 8x10 in bordless, which the i9900 cant do).

Yes is can.

Rich

thebrewer wrote in post #2583500
Yes is can.

Rich

thank you so much. thats one of the main points ive been wanting to know. no one seemed to be able to answer me in the thread i made about that issue