Canon pixma pro 100

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Any of you lovely people using the Canon Pixma pro 100 A3+ printer?

I'm umming and ahhhhhhing about doing my own printing and the pro 100 is on the shortlist, but as it's such a long time since I printed my own images I'm after some real world experiences.

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LOL what a coincidence, I looked for reviews yesterday lunchtime and found nothing :eek:

I'd be interested in hearing more about the real life speed and seeing how good the prints look. Whats the estimated cost of a complete ink fill.......Does each ink have a print head?.....will it spit 1/2 it's ink out doing a cleaning cycle if it's not been used for a day like the Epsons?


Soooooo many questions, but for the cost of the thing plus associated media I need to go into it with a clear head :bank:
 
Speed: Well, my printer resides in my upstairs studio whilst my PC inhabits the hallway downstairs. I clicked the print button on a colour shot at A4 size this morning. I then sat at my computer tidying up for no more than aminute or so. By the time I got to the printer, my print was sitting in the output tray.

The cost of a full set of cartridges is currently around £97 at WEX, but they are on offer. I think their usual price is around £140:gag:

The print head is separate from the cartridges.

One of the reasons I settled for this beast is that it is supposed to be economical with ink, needing fewer cleaning cycles than pigment ink. This is important to me as much of my output is on disc so I print fairly irregularly.

Hope this helps.
 
My old Epson 950 was a great printer for 99% of the time, that being the time when it wasn't cleaning it's own print head with nice clean expensive inks :gag: I think for that the ink was over a thousand pounds per litre! and you didn't get many cleaning cycles out of a cartridge.

I've mailed canon to see if they'll send a sample from it :)

The wifi aspect is a real plus point for me, I don't print much at the moment due to the aforementioned Epsongate saga and that compounds matters because the head gums up further :bonk: but being able to use AirPrint from my iPad and and have it in a different room should change matters a little.

I'm imagining that because of the wifi and airprint capability setting up both our macs to print as well as the ipads and iPhones is possible because it's just a network attached device?
 
Whoa...

Your comments on setting up WiFi/airprint etc. is way over my head!

I set up my printer on WiFi incredibly easily following the instructions on the supplied CD. If that had gone wrong I would have shouted, screamed, kicked the dog and gone to the pub!

However, it really was so easy.
 
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