Talk to me about pigment printers...

[The Hat]

I use my second 9500 strictly for applying the Gloss Optimiser for all my glossy prints, the added bonus is you can fit a Printer Potty to a 9500...

 

[GrantCee]

the added bonus is you can fit a Printer Potty to a 9500...

From my perspective that's an advantage. The 9500 is moving up in the rankings!

Do you know if anyone has yet made a B&W ink set for the 9500?

 

[The Hat]

From my perspective that's an advantage. The 9500 is moving up in the rankings!
Do you know if anyone has yet made a B&W ink set for the 9500?

I got news for you, a B&W ink set is not needed on the 9500, it has black, grey plus red and green to help produce a very neutral shade of black and white in a print, but you will need a good profile and excellent paper to get the best results from it.

It also has the Matte black which can also be used with a chip swap to get even darker shades if that’s required...

 

[GrantCee]

I got news for you, a B&W ink set is not needed on the 9500, it has black, grey plus red and green to help produce a very neutral shade of black and white in a print, but you will need a good profile and excellent paper to get the best results from it.

It also has the Matte black which can also be used with a chip swap to get even darker shades if that’s required...

Do you feel the addition of the green cart helps the B&W tonality over that of the PRO-10?

I've read about rechipping the matte black on the PC site.

(Oh, and a question I wanted to ask: given the bladder and spring inside the PGI-9 carts, have you found there's a limit to the number of times they can be reused?)

 

[The Hat]

Do you feel the addition of the green cart helps the B&W tonality over that of the PRO-10?

I am in favour of as many colours as you can get in a printer, but saying that, Canon did alter their colour ink set on the Pro 10 to alleviate the need for the green cartridge, but were they successful, I really don’t know.

I've read about rechipping the matte black on the PC site.
rechipping is a nice little neat cheat that can save a lot of time and bother if used properly.

(Oh, and a question I wanted to ask: given the bladder and spring inside the PGI-9 carts, have you found there's a limit to the number of times they can be reused?)
I trail tested the PGI-9 cartridges and did fifty empties and the same refills and I am still using that same test cartridge sever years on, I have filled these cartridges 100’s of time and have not had one failure as yet, some of the chip past away from use dough..

 

[palombian]

I have 2 9500 MKII's (plus a new spare printhead) and a lot of ink.
In addition the ink counter can be reset (and a potty connected), so they can print forever.

The inks sold now by precisioncolors are the best I found (color match with OEM, adherence, drying, are very good, the gloss difference is still a bit higher than OEM - although it is there too hence the addition of CO in later models).

IMO the highest gamut is achieved on glossy paper, followed by lustre.
There are high gamut matte papers but they are expensive (nonsense for a refiller ?).

I have some old stock of glossy not suffering from gloss differences, but new papers (cheap and expensive) have it.
It is much less on lustre, and evidently absent on matte.

So price/performance printing on lustre is the best choice.

I am preparing a test to overprint with Pro10-CO in a dedicated printer, but this doubles the processing time and ink cost.

If a PRO-10 was not € 600 (plus new ink) here in Europe I would consider to dump the 9500's second hand and switch.
Although I doubt glossy is the same as with dye ink.