Canon - PIXMA PRO-200

Nah this person is so wrong lmao. You can get a Canon Pixma that does 12x18 prints starting at $200 then a separate scanner or use your phone for scans.

Canon Pixma line for printing and get a separate scanner. Also you might not need a scanner anymore as your phone camera can handle scanning quite well - especially if you're just using the image to trace into vector etc.

That model will consume inks like there is no tomorrow (ink cartridges and not liquid inks), besides there's always a risk when buying used printers. If you are okay with high ink costs and only & only if the printer has warranty left, go for it, else check for ink tank based printers.

I'm not from Europe, but 1 thing is universal, any "Cartridge" based printer will be cheap initially but will drain a lot of money in refills vs. an Ink Tank which shall be a bit pricey but super effective in the long run. Do check this video - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1B71C6BV7k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1B71C6BV7k) (Not mine, but super helpful, was amazed that a fresh genuine ink cartridge runs out of ink even if you print blank, yep blank pages) You can check with companies like Brother, Epson, Canon based on which one provides the best after sales service, stick with ink tank based printers :) I'm using them (Epson earlier & now Canon) for the past 6-7 years and never had any issues, besides the ink cost and per page cost is also cheap! Had to switch from Epson as it didn't do borderless printing (Must have for me as I grew)

Canon and Epson are probably going to be your best to brands to pick from if you want true professional print quality at home. Canon makes their Pro line of printers (pro 200/300/1000) and Epson has the P700 and P900. Each will have their pros and cons, but overall you'd be happy with any of them most likely. These are not your regular inkjet printers you'd buy at an electronics/office store. They are proper professional photo printers. Canon Pro 200 will print up to 13" wide, so it would work for you very well. I think it's about $600 USD. The real question is, is buying a pro printer worth it for you? It's a combination of cost/savings vs a print shop and then the control you'll have over your prints. If this is for just printing your photos for personal use, then it's probably not going to be worth the cost. Printing A4 prints at print shops isn't THAT expensive. But buying a $600 printer and then spending a bunch of money on ink refills and potential wasted paper/ink, probably won't be a cost effective option for you if that's the goal. You'd either need to print a lot to hit a break even point for personal use, or just be that demanding in regards to your prints to want more direct control over how they come out, to make buying a pro printer worth it.

I have the PRO-200 it is excellent overall, easy to maintain, cheap to run, outstanding at color photos, can make great black & white, but you have to experiment with it. It is slow to prints, as expected for a photo printer. For a photo printer it is better. The Epson ET8550 eco-tank can double as a regular printer, it is much faster, and insanely, like out of this world cheap per print, it is almost free. The PRO-200 still will actually do a better job at B&W text, but it is just so slow, like 2ppm if that that for documents, while the Epson says 15ppm, which is still not super fast compared to laser B&W printers, but manageable. SO they are kind of different in purpose, but I know they get compared.

If the ability to print larger than A3 posters and banners appeals, have a look at the Canon imagePROGRAF TC-21/TC-21M. It's a 24" roll machine, so can do A1 & A2 or up to 24"-wide banners from the roll, and can additionally handle A3, A4, A5, A6 cut sheets. If you don't want to go as big as 24", have a look at the imagePROGRAF PRO-310 (A3) and PRO-1100 (A2) professional photo printers, or the PIXMA PRO-200S (A3) if you need to bring the price down. Paper weight is a complicated thing, as it's really the stiffness and thickness which matters. All of Canon's PIXMA printers will handle Canon's own photo paper up to 300 gsm, and their PRO-series photo printers will do slightly heavier stuff. Check the spec sheets for each model to get the specifics of what they say it can handle. The spec sheets tell you the maximum paper thickness that the machines will handle, which can be more important than the paper weight. In terms of photo paper quality, you might not really need to go above 300 gsm for business marketing. That gets you all the way up to Canon PT-101 Pro Platinum or LU-101 Luster paper from their professional grade papers. Their PRO-series machines will give you professional photo studio quality prints on their pro paper.

Get the lawyer a laser printer. For your photography, a dedicated A3+ photo printer is a beautiful thing. I used a Canon Pro-100 dye based printer for years. Great output. I think the pro-200 is its successor. Recently I jumped to the Pro-1100 17" pigment based printer. Excellent again plus even better, to my eye, on matte and art papers with the pigment inks. The Pro-300 also uses pigment inks but is cheaper being a 13" model.

The pro 200 has a built in head. It may be easier to get to than in an ink tank printer but replacements are expensive. Among the three the g620 will likely be the cheapest to do a head replacement on as it uses two smaller cartridges for the printhead so youll only need to replace 3 channels at a time vs the printhead +cartridge/damper for 200 and 8550 where if one channel dies all 6 colors are getting replaced.

Also Canon PIXMA TS8750. A4 borderless, very much a photo machine, 6 ink. Individual cartridge-tanks, semi-permanent head. I.e. cheaper than the low end machines with combined cartridges because you replace inks individually and are not paying for a new head each time. Use XL cartridges for a much better cost per print. More expensive per print than the G600 bottle-tank, but that's not necessarily a huge issue if your volume is relatively low (the savings for bottle-tank machines really only become significant if you are printing high volume). It can still do excellent document printing, using the PGBK (pigment black). You'll get excellent results with genuine Canon photo paper, as the machines have profiles for it and you can tell them exactly what paper you are using. PT-101/PP-201 for glossy (pro/standard), LU-101/SG-201 for semi-gloss, MP-101 for matte. You can use third party art/photo paper, as long as it's not too thick, but the paper path isn't completely flat so really stiff paper could have feed issues. Or, breaking your budget, get the Canon PIXMA PRO-200S, which is the low end of their serious professional photo machines. 8 dye inks, A3+. Expensive to buy and run, but that's how it goes to get professional results. It's also better at handling thicker photo/art paper.

I just looked at my machine and that's the actual model. The driver just says 8700 series. I bought the 8720 like 4 years ago maybe more. I have a pro-200s now as well. I still use both. If you put its print side by side with the $550 pro-200s you will see the 8-ink system makes better pictures. That's just science. But, and I have run this experiment so many times. If you hold each print at random up individually, nobody is better than a coin flip at guessing which is which. Not exactly true. I chum around with artists and a few savants and people do exist that will see the difference. But just as often people will identify the cheaper systems prints as better. What I've found is that having a blending version of magenta and cyan and a light gray dye makes a tiny difference compared to simply adding a blending gray to a traditional cmyb ink system. The 8720 can be had for about $200. Canon inks are great but the knockoff stuff is nearly always just as good and stupid cheap. Canon inkjet photo paper is worth the money but other brands are nearly as good. 4x6 prints are great. But my printer paid for itself the first week printing 13x19 calendars. It's just a really absurdly fun size print, especially when you aren't paying a photo lab $25 each.

Current Epson models are garbage. The nozzles are always clogged. I own three at my shop. HP consumer grade are garbage. Try to find the budget for a Canon pro-200.

I'm not going to lie.... I literally hate printing at home LOL and coming from someone who HAS two printers 😭😭😭 dealing with smudges and hand feeding the paper eats up a lot of your time especially if you deal with thicker paper I use the pixma pro 200-s, but for you the ix6820 should do the trick

It's possibly the thickness (and maybe stiffness) that is the major issue, rather than the weight. The top feed on the PRO-200S is only rated up to 11.8 mil, but the manual feed (which has a minimum size of 8x10) is rated up to 23.6 mil. I.e. you may be a little over on the weight (which is never an exact limit, just a rough guide), but 18 mil is massively over on thickness for the top feed. You could maybe print 2-up (on 8x10 or 8.5x11) or 4-up (on 11x14 or 11x17) with that paper on the manual feed tray, then cut and trim. I'd suggest only buying a small quantity to test, in case the printer has other difficulty with that paper. 110lb is close enough to the 93lb rating for the manual feed that there's at least half a chance it may work based on weight. It's not really the weight that determines whether it will feed; it's the thickness, stiffness, and surface texture that really matter, and stiffness doesn't really matter if the paper path is flat. Edit: Looking at the specs for Aurora Art White 300, it's not 110 lb paper. It's 300gsm / 80lb on the spec sheet, which is comfortably within the PRO-200S spec sheet for the manual feed tray. It's just about certain that your problems are entirely down to the paper being 18 mil and far too thick for the top feed. 8x10, or larger, via the manual feed should work just fine, based on paper and printer spec sheets, but still just buy a test quantity until you see how it goes. ~~Edit2: I don't entirely recommend this, but you could also try the top feed one sheet at a time. Sometimes printers will manage to feed a single sheet in cases where the struggle to auto-feed a stack. While it is well over the printer's thickness limit for the top feed, it's right on the 80lb / 300gsm weight limit for the top feed.~~ I see you've already tried single sheets, after re-reading your post.

It's a tricky comparison because they are designed for different things. The PRO-200S is very much a pro level photo machine, but it's probably not the one a pro photographer would choose unless they were just starting out. The pro photographers would go for the PRO-310 and PRO-1100. The PRO-200S is a bit like the Canon EOS R50 or R10 camera with enthusiast grade lenses (rather than the L-series professional lenses and the higher models of EOS R cameras). In pro photography terms, it's more of a serious starter/enthusiast level machine. You don't have to use a Canon EOS to get good results with it, photos taken on a good Nikon or Sony (or others) will work equally well. Excellent photo printing is perhaps the most difficult type of printing, so it will naturally do an excellent job at document printing (but you wouldn't want it as just a document printer). For general business marketing, the photo quality on pro level Canon photo paper will be absolutely fantastic. It's also not really intended to be a high volume machine, although it's certainly quite capable and well built. It's a 2400 dpi machine. The ET-16150 is a business document printer, for high volume (by inkjet standards, but really high volume is still the domain of laser printers) business document printing. It will also, I assume, do a pretty good photo on Epson's photo paper, but nowhere near the professional level photo quality of the PRO series. The Canon equivalent would be something from their MAXIFY GX series. It will be cheaper to run than the PRO series. The ET-16150 is a 1200 dpi machine. The major difference between them is the PRO-200S is an 8 ink machine, for wider colour gamut and more accurate colour, and the ET-16150 is a standard 4 ink CMYK machine. One of the 6 ink Epson EcoTanks would produce higher quality photos. I guess it comes down to how important the photo quality is for you. If that's the most important thing, it probably should be the PRO-200S. If high volume business document printing is the most important thing (and things like big input trays for plain paper, duplex, etc), with just "good" photo quality, it probably should be the ET-16150 or a MAXIFY GX. If you really are going to be printing just an average of "An average of around 10 pages a day" (so roughly 200-300 pages per month, depending on how many days a week), that's not really high volume (the PRO-200S should be fine with that, and the ET-16150 has a recommended duty cycle of 3,300 pages per month so quite light use for it). On that low volume and some desire for excellent photos, I'm thinking the PRO-200S may be the better choice for you, as long as you don't mind it not having duplex (you can always do manual duplex, printing the odd numbered pages, then loading the paper back in to print the even numbered pages). If you later decide you want to print a high volume of something like leaflets or flyers, and you have gone for the PRO-200S, keep it for printing the good stuff and get an appropriately sized EcoTank, MAXIFY, or laser for the volume work. There is also the whole paper weight/thickness thing, so be sure not to forget to double check that on whatever you choose (the PRO-200S will handle anything from Canon's own photo paper range, and some others). Both Canon and Epson have been around for a very long time, I reckon both do very good printers. Personally, I prefer Canon, and part of my interest is photo printing, so I'm slightly biased towards them as a very highly respected photography company (they started out in 1933 as a precision optical instruments / camera company, and are used by a lot of serious pro photographers today). They are also well respected in printing from small to massive production machines. The results from my EOS camera on my PIXMA TS9550 are simply excellent.

Nah this person is so wrong lmao. You can get a Canon Pixma that does 12x18 prints starting at $200 then a separate scanner or use your phone for scans.

I'm not from Europe, but 1 thing is universal, any "Cartridge" based printer will be cheap initially but will drain a lot of money in refills vs. an Ink Tank which shall be a bit pricey but super effective in the long run. Do check this video - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1B71C6BV7k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1B71C6BV7k) (Not mine, but super helpful, was amazed that a fresh genuine ink cartridge runs out of ink even if you print blank, yep blank pages) You can check with companies like Brother, Epson, Canon based on which one provides the best after sales service, stick with ink tank based printers :) I'm using them (Epson earlier & now Canon) for the past 6-7 years and never had any issues, besides the ink cost and per page cost is also cheap! Had to switch from Epson as it didn't do borderless printing (Must have for me as I grew)

Canon Pixma line for printing and get a separate scanner. Also you might not need a scanner anymore as your phone camera can handle scanning quite well - especially if you're just using the image to trace into vector etc.

If a scanner is not important then you may want to look at the Pixma Pro-200 that would be in the same price range as the Epson as the Color Accuracy is rated superior compared to the Epson and prints up to the same 13x19 max print size. However, if the built-in scanner is a show stopper, then the Epson would be the better choice over the G620 if you're wanting to print gallery quality prints..

Yes. I use a Canon Pro 200 and print regularly. I have a pretty fair sized portfolio of A3+ sized prints. Nothing like pulling out and actually handling a good sized print of your work. It really is the completion of the photographic process. Some go on the walls, some just get pulled out and looked at once and awhile.

I did not wait too long to get the 200 when I found it 50% off. It's going so well, so very glad I jumped into printing. I love curating the paper type to the image and have been told through class work at CPW that I seem to have a knack for it. It has become my favorite part of the entire process outside of just getting out to shoot. My signature prints are 13 x 38 pano papers from Red River. Hand down, I think the 200 is a great entry level pro printer to get started.

Roller marks problem how to fix: Get better quality paper (also some printers if you select thick paper on configurations, also make it leave less roller marks, don't know if this is the case). Or Get a printer that is more focused for photos. (right now the cheapest are the canon G5/6XX series). If you don't find them, then the Epson ET8500/8550 (they do still leave some roller marks but with better quality paper they are fine). Or the epson ET 8100/18100 (it's ink does not have lightfastness). I only recommend ink tank printers for most uses cases. If you are going for pro level printing and going to sell them for high price then there are the Canon Pixma Pro Line, and Epson Surecolor p700/900. About your brother, well i don't recommend because it's a cartridge printer(seriously this black that you used could easily be like 3-5% of all of it's black ink). I would return if still possible. And purchase any ink tank.(If you won't print like 40+ documents pages or 5+ photos a month then it's a fine printer, more than this only if you convert it for ciss or use somekind of compatible cartridge). Edit: Ohh and about consumer level printer that you want mostly for documents, and then some photos. Canon Megatank GXXXX series. And Epson ET 2/4XXX series, then you will compare price and what they offer, like duplex, in case of epson a4 borderless as well. IF you want fewer features but better photos, some epson have 4 dye ink that are better for printing on cheaper glossy ink (you can check if their black tank is the same size as the colored tanks, if it is the same size then it's ink is dye).

I have not had any problems printing B/W with the pro 200. I've been quite happy with the pro 200.

Exactly as mentioned above; - CP1500 is perfect for 10x15 prints and it is cheap to run. approx 0.33€/print - G550 or G650 are a great option if you don't want to deal with any cartridge printers as they both work work bottled ink - PRO-1100 seems overkill in this scenario, it prints up to A2 - PRO-200S or PRO-310 are better option as they give you more control over your prints with more colors to work with. Or if you find a PRO-300 on the cheap. Go for that. They are both cartridge printers. The cost of running is higher the a G650 but you do get better color reproduction. I hope this helps!

I have a Canon Pro 200 and I love it. You can do what's called a pattern print to fine tune the settings for every print you do, so you don't waste paper and ink testing full size. I can get exactly the result I want. Get whichever Canon Pro printer will fit in your budget, I'm pretty sure you'll be happy!

You should have a close look at the Canon PIXMA PRO-200S. It's cartridge rather than tank, but the Canon PRO printers seem to be quite highly thought of by some of the YouTube photographers. 8 inks, rather than 6 with the tank printers people have been suggesting, so better/wider colour gamut. It will be more expensive per print, but that might be ok if you are going for high quality over high volume, if you can build that into your pricing. Borderless photo printing up to 13" x 19" (A3+). If you're a Canon photographer, it's certainly not a bad thing to have a Canon printer. It's a step down from the PRO, but I love the photo prints I get from my Canon EOS camera on my PIXMA TS9550.

Normally one of the 5/6-ink Canon PIXMAs would be my recommendation for high quality home photo printing, using only genuine Canon ink and high quality photo paper. Canon's own photo paper is excellent and works superbly with their ink, as you'd expect, but some people choose to go with a high end third party brand photo paper instead (Canon even sell some high end third party photo paper alongside their own). With a larger budget, one of Canon's PRO-series machines would be the next step up. The PIXMA PRO-200S is the prosumer/enthusiast model with 8 dye inks. The imagePROGRAF PRO-310 is the professional photographer's A3 machine with 10 pigment inks. The imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 is the professional photographer's A2 machine with 12 pigment inks. There are also large format imagePROGRAF PRO-series roll-fed machines from 24" to 60" width, but those would be beyond your budget and a long way beyond what you describe. You really need good pixels, and a lot of them, to get the best results printing on A3 or A2. I'm sure those machines would do excellent work with a high res photo from an exceptionally good phone, but they really need images from a Canon EOS camera (or a high spec Canon PowerShot), or something equally good, to get the best out of them and perform to their full potential. Now, in all honesty, a Canon PIXMA G500/600-series (A4), TS8700/8800-series (A4) or TS9500-series (A3) can do a superb job with a high quality image. Those are the 5/6-ink machines 1 step below the PRO-200S. I've got a Canon EOS camera and PIXMA TS9550, and the prints I get on A4 and A3 Canon photo paper are excellent. That could be all you need. Sure, the prints I would get from my EOS on a PRO-series would be a step closer to perfection, but I love what my PIXMA can do with a good image on good photo paper, and it was relatively affordable. If you don't already have a good enthusiast/pro level camera, I would spend that $1,500 on one of the Canon PIXMAs a step below the PRO machines and the remainder on a PowerShot or EOS R50/R10 starter kit (don't get the R100, it is still a good camera, but a generation behind on the image processor and kinda the no-frills model to entice people into the EOS ecosystem).

I enjoy shooting and then tweaking in Lightroom/Photoshop and then I print out the best from the session to show my wife and family. The real good ones I frame but not too often. And pictures of family and friends I hand out. Sometimes I do a few prints just to check out my post processing. So as your efforts progress you may be printing regularly. Canon has the SELPHY which is about $130. I have the Canon Pixma Pro 200 which cost about $600.

Nothing quite so satisfying as hanging prints you've made yourself up on the wall. Dunno if you want to go this route, as the Pro-200 is [more of a PITA to refill](https://precisioncolors.com/PC65.html) than my ancient Pro-100, but I went the [PrecisionColors](https://precisioncolors.com/) inks refill route. I just top up my carts every month to avoid any printhead damage. But, I used to restore vintage fountain pens as a hobby, so playing with syringes, chip resetters, and checking for water/air-tight seals and inkflow is actually fun for me. YMMV. Wildly.

I picked Pixma G650 as in the price category I don't know any other that would have 6 inks instead of standard 4 CMYK. But your budget is higher so probably go for Pixma 200 (not 200s) as that is great photo printer that even professionals use still.

If it's just small ones for memories that would be fine (thing family photo album). If you want nicer quality or larger your better getting them printed somewhere or a much nicer printer. That obviously comes with my h larger expenses. To be clear though on nice printers the main expense is ink. I own a Cannon Pro 200 and regularly print on it and for me this is a hobby in and of itself. I enjoy regularly printing for myself or making nice prints as presents for friends and family. But I really would treat it as a separate hobby. If you just want a few snaps printed every now and then you financially much better paying for it to be printed it elsewhere.