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Choosing between the Canon PRO-200 or PRO-300 13" desktop photo printers

We are comparing peaches to apples now. Yes, both are fruits. Both, 200 and 300 are getting good reviews. They are both incremental upgrades to already good printers. If the difference between dye and pigment ink is not important for you, get the dye ink printer and make your life easy (and...

Don't compare the Pro 200, which is the Pro 100 replacement and thus is using dye inks and not pigment. General consensus is, that the Pro 300 upgrade is incremental. If you can get a good deal on Pro 10, that would be probably the way to go, especially if you are saying that Pro 300 is too...

Pro-1000 has a user-replaceable and much more durable printhead, and non-pressurized ink system, so it is very much different, but for occasional printing and small formats it is too expensive, too high-maintenance, too wasteful and much harder to refill than the venerable Pro-10.

This depends on how much ink you have left and how much you love the printer. But the general notion from the smart people on this thread is to either step down do Pro 10 / Pro 10s which can be easily refilled and gives almost identical results, or if you are bold enough, go up to Pro 1000 or...

Quite contrary, as of yet I love my Pro-1. Also, thanks to it I will never start smoking, never start drinking and never ever touch gambling. Everytime I buy a cartdridge, I say this is my cigarette money, this is for all the beer I did not drink last month, etc. :) I am only afraid that once...

Jose just got a second piece last week, so he might be changing his opinion (or not). While he hates this very expensive girlfriend, he is still willing to get his hands dirty with her... old love never rusts!

AFAIK Octoink gives discount on their inks if you send your OEM carts in. Shipping them to Jose Rodriguez would make him happy just as well, although I don't know if he still buys them in - the market is dwindling. He used to sell modified carts that accept the 3rd party one-time chips. There...

Shout out to @Martin_1979 I am also a Pro-1 user from Slovakia, Bratislava. And I know some other people using Pro-1 here, too. Anyway, I would never-ever put non-OEM cartridge inside the Pro-1 printer. They are significantly different in their built-quality, and they WILL kill your printer...

Hi folks, I have promised to get back. It took some time, but I got back to the issue and here are the conclusions: the difference between using A4 and A5 sheets for calibration seems to be negligible (tried when calibrating Pro Platinum paper) scaled-down A5 sheets are harder to scan...

I will take a look, thanks!

I will give it another try, now when I know how to check the quality of the profile before I print test image, it does not cost more than a minute of time. Maybe its because I am still not comfortable with the sliding of the device over patches instead of reading patch by patch. I feel like the...

If somebody is interested. Especially in the density response chart you can immediately spot the error. Great way to check your profiles even before you do a test print. You can also see the deeper curve on the custom profiles compared to the generic (bottom left corner of the density chart)...

I have i1DisplayPro I bought some time ago, back during the time I did not think I will be printing. To me, i1Studio just feels so "basic". But higher tier devices for hobbyist are clearly beyond sense. And it is an improvement over nothing, allowing me to get the most out of my printer.

I just did reprofile it like you have suggested - in a very low light environment, main computer screen off, on stack of white paper (I did not use matte but other photo paper, not luster), I did not scale the patches down to A5 and went for full A4. The profile is now almost perfect (improved...

Thanks for the extensive information, even though it is not a piece of great news, I will try to reprofile

On of the reason I got i1Studio was, that I was not very happy with the performance of my printer (Pro-1) on the Pro Luster Paper (using only OEM inks so far). After I have created the profile, I could see the reason - more vivid colors, cleaner yellow and actual blue instead of purple. However...

@The Hat so I did and try what I could. Did not get the rich black under any other combination, it seems that the Matte fine art paper is the only one where the printer dares to put more ink :-/ But great advice on scaling A4 calibration sheet to A5 - works without complaints. Thanks!

@The Hat oh, please I forgot - where to turn off that Paper detection? Thank you!

Thanks for the advice! I will try and re-profile, I will also try to print the profile and control sheets on A5.