Pixma Pro-100 – A Printer For Professional Users

The Pixma Pro-100 – the professional printer series that Canon has been selling is the logical choice for the studio photographers thanks to good print quality and fast print time at $340.5.

The design of the printer Pixma Pro-100 is similar to the other Pixma printer lines but the size of the machine is quite large. The chassis is made of plastic with 2 black and gray and look definitely sturdy.

The Pixma Pro-100 – the design with rugged black and gray

It has 2 input trays at the rear and 1 in the front paper tray pickup. The Pixma Pro-100 enables printing on plain paper from the material, professional photo paper… with the size from A4, A3 and A3 +, even in both CD-R label.

Two paper trays get back and pick one paper tray front to suit the paper size.

The current popular paper as Luster, Paper Plus Glossy II, Photo Paper Adhesive, Matte paper… is usually very picky and needs a printer profile for the paper to come with. If the machine is not suitable or does not have the profile of the kind of paper that, when printed images will be blurry, colors are changing. The Pixma Pro-100 has strong points of compatibility with common paper on helping users get high-quality prints.

Compatible with many different types of paper

The Canon Pixma Pro-100 supports data input up to 1,200 ppi to produce images with a resolution of 4,800×2,400 DPI, much higher than normal printers currently on the market index, DPI only about 1,000 to 2,000 DPI. It uses eight individual ink cartridges CLI-42 with a total of 6144 nozzles, 3PL ink droplets ensure minimum quality color display best while saving ink.

It looks extremely in high resolution and the ability to save ink.

The Canon Pixma Pro-100 also uses more gray boxes to help enhance radiance and depth to the images to ensure an efficient and sophisticated manner. Advanced technology in the continuous adjustment of ink jet printing as soon as the Pixma Pro-100 allows only takes about 51 seconds to complete A4 color prints and 1 minute 30 seconds to complete color A3 + prints. This saves a lot of time for the photographer, especially in the wedding photo studio. Do not waste time waiting, customers can view, select the image, edit and get instant prints.

The ink consists of 8 individual cartridges.

Color is also important when printing photos. For vivid colors, real pictures, the ink must have good quality, and it is best to use genuine inks to ensure longevity as well as quality printer prints. The number of taps increases the ink color mixing capabilities as quality and ensures best color display.

The machine system with simple buttons is managed through dedicated software.

Another valuable improvement on the Pro-100 line is the Wi-Fi capability; users can use the smart mobile device or laptop computer to print directly Pixma Pro-100 through wireless connection.

Also connected to the LAN, USB, the machine can also print photos through Wi-Fi connection.

For professional photographers, the photo printer needs more software support for users set the printing parameters to suit your purpose. Coming with the Pixma Pro-100, Canon gives users the software for both Mac OS and Windows OS for users easier management level and have a choice in style, color mode and a number other visual enhancements.

The Print Studio Pro software is designed for users of the Pixma printer line, which allows the user to set different print modes. Besides the Print Studio Pro is compatible with the image processing software like Adobe Photoshop or Light Room and actively help users more easily in image processing.

One other useful software is the Canon Color Management Tool Pro that allows the user to set the parameters of the margins before printing paper, paper size and image quality brings different effects when printing an image.

Technical specs

·         Printer Category: Ink Jet

·         Color or Monochrome: 1-pass color

·         Ink Jet Type: Photo All-Purpose

·         Connection Type: USB, Ethernet, Wireless

·         Maximum Standard Paper Size: Supertabloid

·         Number of Cartridges: 8

·         Number of Ink Colors: 8

·         Direct Printing from Cameras: Yes

·         LCD Preview Screen: No

·         Input Capacity (printer input only): 150 sheets

·         Network-Ready: Yes

·         Print Duplexing: No

·         Claimed lifetime for photos – dark storage: 200 years

·         Claimed lifetime for photos – framed behind glass: 70 years

·         Water/smudge proof or resistant: yes

·         Tech Support: Phone and online support

·         1 year warranty with instant exchange

·         Photos: high -quality settings – Adobe Photoshop 7

·         Average output time per print: 4″x6″ prints: 1:17 (min:sec)