“The Canon drivers have given me no problems on Mac OS X (so far, and AFTER I figured out that, just like when printing to any printer, I needed to convert my working colors to the Canon’s ICC profile) and I get many more options from the print dialog within Photoshop than I ever got with the Epson. My old Epson would have to cycle through the cleaning of the heads (of course after making a bad print to realize the heads needed cleaning, I remember that I needed to clean the heads) for 5-8 cycles, wasting a ton of ink, between print times like this. Plus, since I don’t regularly make prints, I’ve noticed no clogging of the print heads in between prints, over a time span of 4-5 weeks. Also, remember to turn off color correction in the printer dialog box! “As far as speed, I can print a 13×19 print in about 1.5 minutes and that blew away the performance of my dated Epson 2000p. Once I did that, my color prints are spot on to what I see on my screen. Personally, I have to admit that I’ve given up fiddling with color printers as I have had splendid results working with online printing service Snapfish, but fellow members of the Front Range Photography Society have shared their own experiences with this particular printer, notably fellow blogger Gregg Lowrimore, who offers up this commentary: “On my own Canon PIXMA Pro-9000, I found that I needed to use (read: convert-to) the Canon ICC profiles to get accurate colors from my files.
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