| Canon PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Printer |
 The PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II printer takes advantage of Canon's professional proprietary Lucia brand pigment-based inks for long-lasting, professional-quality prints. The PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II printer uses Canon's dye-based inks to produce brilliant, gallery-quality prints up to 13 x 19 inches on a variety of fine art papers and glossy media. "Canon is known among professional photographers for providing the right capture and output tools to manage their photographic creations and the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer continues to deliver on that tradition with its superior quality and archival life," said Beryl Thomas, Brand Manager -PIXMA, Consumer Imaging Products Group, Canon Australia. "With the growing number of enthusiasts capturing professional-quality photographs with digital SLR cameras, it's only natural for photographers to want to maintain creative control over their photos by printing the images themselves on products like the new Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II. These professional and emerging photographers understand and appreciate the creative control that Canon provides over image quality, from capture to output."PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer The new PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II Photo Printer features ten pigment-based ink colours - photo black, matte black, grey, cyan, magenta, yellow, photo cyan, photo magenta, red and green - allowing users the benefit of a wide colour gamut for stunning colour prints, as well as three levels of black for true black-and-white photographs. The Pro9500 Mark II delivers rich detail, texture and tone as well as extraordinary colour reproduction in the green, red, yellow and orange colour ranges, resulting in breathtaking photo art. Employing the Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology along with a sophisticated 7,680 nozzle print-head structure, the Mark II model provides significantly faster production times delivering one-and-a-half times faster print speeds on A3+ bordered prints than earlier models. The printer's matte black, photo black and grey inks reduce metamerism and provide high-density blacks and truly neutral monochrome prints. Metamerism is an effect in some printed black-and-white images where composite grey inks (achieved with combinations of cyan, magenta and yellow ink) make image areas appear a different colour hue under different lighting conditions (such as sunlight, fluorescent light and incandescent light). This aberration is due to the differences in spectral reflectance properties of each of the composite colours. PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer The eight-colour PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printer - cyan, magenta, yellow, photo cyan, photo magenta, photo black, red, and green - delivers a high gloss and vivid colour experience rivalling that of positive film for photographers. The Pro9000 Mark II's impressive quality and speed are the result of the Canon FINE print head technology coupled with Canon's high-performance, high-density 6,144-nozzle print head, which is capable of producing nearly invisible ink droplets of just two picoliters. Thanks in part to an enhanced double encoder system for media control, the PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II achieves three times faster print speeds over its predecessor, producing a bordered A3+ size print in approximately 83 seconds. Software A new Easy Photo Print Pro feature incorporated into the PIXMA Pro models is Canon's Ambient Light Correction technology, which helps reduce the perceived colour difference caused by different light conditions between printing and viewing or display environments. Compatible with Windows Vista, Ambient Light Correction allows users to optimise print colour for the lighting conditions under which the final print will be shown. Through the software, users can adjust colour to various levels of lighting conditions from daylight at 6500K to a warm white fluorescent lamp at 3000K for optimal viewing. Both the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II and the PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II Photo Printers come bundled with Canon's proprietary Easy-PhotoPrint Pro software and now with Adobe PhotoShop Elements, an advanced photo-editing software tool. Easy-PhotoPrint Pro, which is a software plug-in designed for Adobe applications such as PhotoShop CS, CS2, CS3, or PhotoShop Elements 6 along with Canon Digital Photo Pro (DPP) software, permits one-click image transfer, simple setting controls for colour management and allows users to configure printer settings once for images on multiple sheets. A helpful feature, Easy-PhotoPrint Pro facilitates the printing of RAW image files (as a high-quality TIFF or JPEG) without having to save directly from applications, like DPP. Pricing and Availability The Canon PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II ($TBC) will be available through Canon dealers nationally from June, while the PIXMA Pro9000 ($TBC) Mark II will be available from July. For more information, customers can contact Canon on .      
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About Canon
Canon Australia is a leading provider of advanced, simple-to-use imaging solutions for businesses and consumers. Canon's Australian R&D company, CiSRA, develops customised solutions for local customers, and exports digital imaging technologies for use in Canon products worldwide. Canon has ranked among the top-three US patent recipients for the past 17 years, and had global revenues of around $US44.9 billion in 2008. Canon Australia also operates Canon Finance Australia, which offers one-stop shopping for customers wanting leasing or finance services.
