Exactly , I worked in the appliance manufacturing industry. We made more money on refrigerator water filter sales than we did on refrigerators. I'm sure the cartridges will be available for a long while.I'm sure that if ink sales are strong that they will continue for more than 5 years, as that's where their profit is. I get the impression that the printer business is very much on the "give them the razor, sell them the blades" model.
I think the actual Canon limit is around 26" but don't quote me on that. I know it is longer than 19" at least on the Pro-10.
While your waiting for Patrick's reply, try this:
In another defense of Epson... I moved in May, and had not used my R3000 since well before then. So it had probably been about a year of the R3000 sitting unused, turned off, hauled from one apartment to our new house, and set up yesterday. I networked my office there because I installed a number of things that work a bit better over ethernet (Epson P6000, 2 Fuji Frontier SP-3000s, and now my R3000). Just to sort of test the ethernet switch, I turned on the R3k to see if it registered. Once it was all powered up and showing up on my mac I though ah what the heck lets try it out. I had been doing some scans of recently shot Provia 6x6 chromes that day. I threw in some 5x7 Moab paper and sent a print from Lightroom using a custom profile that I had set up a while back. The printer did have a bit of an issue grabbing the paper at first, but after a 2nd pass through, it started working.
Voila! A beautiful little 4x4 print on matte paper, no head strikes, streaks, bands, or anything. I never even ran a cleaning cycle. I've owned this printer for around 4 years now, and it's always worked like a champ. I know a lot of people got burned with Epson products over the years, but it seems like the the last gen they really have left the common issues behind.
Thank you for that heads up, Precision already won the aftermarket ink war, even over my precious supplier, but was concerned about the printer sitting unused for a month of more. Thank you for erasing that concern.I use Precision Color for my aftermarket ink and am very happy with my results. In three years I have never had a clog and have gone 3-4 months between printing at one point and it printed very well without even a nozzle check.
Yeah, the new Epson P series printers are really good about not clogging. Though they do an auto clean every time you turn them on now. That may help. But they don't waste as much ink doing head cleaning as the old ones. Combined with the new orange, green, and violet inks, I'm really impressed with these printers. The color accuracy is astounding! Although, I did have to replace a head on my P9000 after only 2 years. I hope that's just an outlier and not a sign of things to come.In another defense of Epson... I moved in May, and had not used my R3000 since well before then. So it had probably been about a year of the R3000 sitting unused, turned off, hauled from one apartment to our new house, and set up yesterday. I networked my office there because I installed a number of things that work a bit better over ethernet (Epson P6000, 2 Fuji Frontier SP-3000s, and now my R3000). Just to sort of test the ethernet switch, I turned on the R3k to see if it registered. Once it was all powered up and showing up on my mac I though ah what the heck lets try it out. I had been doing some scans of recently shot Provia 6x6 chromes that day. I threw in some 5x7 Moab paper and sent a print from Lightroom using a custom profile that I had set up a while back. The printer did have a bit of an issue grabbing the paper at first, but after a 2nd pass through, it started working.
Voila! A beautiful little 4x4 print on matte paper, no head strikes, streaks, bands, or anything. I never even ran a cleaning cycle. I've owned this printer for around 4 years now, and it's always worked like a champ. I know a lot of people got burned with Epson products over the years, but it seems like the the last gen they really have left the common issues behind.
I own both and print almost exclusively black and white. Please review what I wrote in post #9 of this thread....We've got a neck to neck tie between the Canon Pro 100 and the Epson p600 coming down to the finish line...
In my experience, and I haven't tried it with my wife's Pro-100, I had issues finding suitable transparency film for dye based inks. And when I did get them to work, I found they didn't block out the UV light as well as pigment based inks. So if digital negatives is you main reason for getting the printer, I'd try to source a pigment based printer.Can anyone chime in on making digital negatives with either the Canon Pro-100 vs Pro-10? Or doing transfers using mod podge or gel media? I don't currently have an inkjet capable of printing decent images, but I've been considering it. I just want to be able to do more than just basic prints.
Yes... good point and very true... they have not updated the above sight, so we called Canon Support directly... and the Pro 100 has WIn 10 drivers that can be downloaded for Win 10 (32) or (64) bit at:site https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/...-inkjet-printers/professional-inkjet-printers the PRO 100 and Pro 10 shows Windows 7 SP1
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