!$ Canon Pixma Pro9000 Professional Large Format Inkjet Printer 9995A001

There's a real flaw in the PixmaPro 9000, that Canon simply does not want to address...



This thing is advertised as an 8 color printer... that is, it's an 8 color printer only if you use it as a paperweight on your desktop.



Canon's strategy, as has become obvious to those who have struggled to deal with their Tech Service department, is that to "advertise" capabilities, and then not deliver, will result in enhanced initial sales, then deny issues exist, when they clearly do.



The issue? Red and Green ink. They simply are not used.



Try printing a pure Green or Red section. 100C + 100Y, or 100M +100Y... and what? Zero Green or Red ink expended...



Try converting to RGB space, and put down 255R or 255G... same result... Canon squirts copius amounts of C,M and especially Y down, and while the Red & Green inks sleep, they collect ink cartridge fees to finance the Pixma Pyramid scheme. For heaven's sake, even the Photo Cyan and Photo Magenta are guzzled at a rate 100 times the Red and Green ink meters nudge down...



Canon's explanation is that the Green and Red inks "extend" the color gamut of photo images... slightly... only under certain conditions... and certain paper types... and certain paper sizes... sometimes. Right. They even claim that their Red and Green inks are NOT represented by any known combination of CMY inks, or an RGB value. Wow. Green is not Green. Red is not Red.



Too bad for you (as far as they are concerned) if you decide NOT to be blind stupid happy campers and refuse to drink the Canon Koolaid... Red and Green Koolaid...



In reality, you will expend 40+ cartridges of the 4 color process inks, for every Red or Green cartridge expended.



Can it be overriden? No.



Do alternate drivers or color profile settings exist that tweak it out? No.



Do you consume enormous amounts of CM&Y ink carts making process reds and greens? You betcha.



So why, for crying out loud, are Red & Green inks marketed?



To minimize ink saturation on heavy R/G color sections?



Nope.



To save enormous amounts of print head firing, by laying down 2 picoliters of R instead of 2 picoliters of M plus 2 picoliters of Y to make a RED dot on the paper?



Nope.



You figure it out. Canon has their (our) cake and they eat it too... pay them extra for an 8 color printer, and STILL buy their ink by the bucketload.



What a business plan. Do they hear the Voice of the Customer? No way.
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More Detail For Canon Pixma Pro9000 Professional Large Format Inkjet Printer 9995A001

• Maximum 4800 x 2400 dpi FINE print head technology
• Support for fine art paper up to 13" x 19" with two separate paper paths, including front feeder for heavyweight paper types
• Professional printer features using Easy-PhotoPrint Pro (Plug-in software for Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2)and (CS3 and CS3 Extended.
• New printer driver with advanced color controls