New Printer

[Martyn]

With my big five 'o' birthday I had to push the boat out somewhat and managed to get enough funds together for a new printer (with kind donations from my family and what I could collect together).

After hours of reading reviews, the mental torment of making a decision, reading more reviews, changing my mind, going through the whole process again I finally bit the bullet.

I have this afternoon collected and am now the proud owner of a Canon 9500mk2 (sorry Epson 2880). Looks to be a big beast and it's quite heavy.

Shopping around I found Jacobs had the printer for £499.99 which seemed to be a very reasonable price.

Now all of you who use this printer do you have any favoured paper? I have picked up a mixed box of Ilford Galerie paper from to try but wondered what you use.

Probably won't get the chance to rig the printer up till next week though.

Cheers

Martyn

[chimpy]

Martin for every day printing A4, I find Costco's own brand "Kirkland " paper is brilliant. It prints on my Epson 2880 with no problems, the paper is super glossy, fast drying and for the price of approx £13 for 150 sheets you can't go wrong. For my shots that are going for sale or exhibiting usually A3 or A3+ I use Canon pro paper it is expensive but worth it and for everyday A3 stuff I use Jessops glossy. Chimpy

[Alun]

Ilford gallerie classic pearl works well with my Pixma Pro 9000. Permajet papers are certainly worth looking at and the Oyster has a nice textured finish. NTH

[Martyn]

Thanks Alun,

I have been using the Permajet Oyster with my Epson R800 and got some good results so may give that a try again. Reasonable costs too.

I'll look out for the Ilford as well.

Thanks for the information.

Martyn

[Martyn]

Martin for every day printing A4, I find Costco's own brand "Kirkland " paper is brilliant. It prints on my Epson 2880 with no problems, the paper is super glossy, fast drying and for the price of approx £13 for 150 sheets you can't go wrong. For my shots that are going for sale or exhibiting usually A3 or A3+ I use Canon pro paper it is expensive but worth it and for everyday A3 stuff I use Jessops glossy. Chimpy

Thanks Chimpy, I presume you use a generic profile for these papers? The Canons I believe are good and was frightened off today when I saw the price of some A3+ Canon Pro Platinum paper. Not sure my images warrant that kind of cash.

Cheers

Martyn:-)

[chimpy]

Martyn, I just pick the profile for Epson glossy on the fast quality setting it does the job. I use to use really expensive papers for all my prints but I quickly realised that the average person couldn't tell the difference also the high quality setting just drained my ink levels at a rapid rate, at £100 ish a set that was a bit expensive. Chimpy

[David S]

I got the Canon Pro 9000 when I was your age! Really pleased with it after using Epson R800 and its jets that block every other time you use it. I use mostly Permajet Oyster and Matt. Just download the profiles from their site. Enjoy your new printer.

David

[Martyn]

Martyn, I just pick the profile for Epson glossy on the fast quality setting it does the job. I use to use really expensive papers for all my prints but I quickly realised that the average person couldn't tell the difference also the high quality setting just drained my ink levels at a rapid rate, at £100 ish a set that was a bit expensive. Chimpy

Very useful info chimpy many thanks......

I got the Canon Pro 9000 when I was your age! Really pleased with it after using Epson R800 and its jets that block every other time you use it. I use mostly Permajet Oyster and Matt. Just download the profiles from their site. Enjoy your new printer.

David

Thanks David, I have some Oyster A4 left over (only half a dozen sheets now) so will download a new profile for the Canon and give them a try.

Regards

Martyn