Canon has introduced a brand new flagship product, the Canon ImagePrograf Professional-1100 – an replace to the practically decade-old ImagePrograf Professional-1000 skilled printer geared toward studios, skilled photographers and companies.
It boasts the very same bodily dimensions (723 x 435 x 285mm) and weight (32.4kg) as its predecessor, however don;t be fooled by its comparable look; inside it is brimming with new thrilling tech, comparable to 5G WiFi.
The Professional-1100 can print at sizes as much as A2+ or 17″. Nevertheless, utilizing paper roll, the Professional-1100 can now make prints nicely over twice as vast because the Professional-1000 may; whereas its predecessor may produce panoramas as much as 1.2m vast, the Professional-1100 can create panos as much as 3.27m.
The ImagePrograf Professional-1100 is designed for prime yields utilizing a variety of 11 inks and Chroma Optimizer. “By being utilized over the printed picture to cowl the bumps between ink droplets, Chroma Optimizer ranges the ink droplet top with a purpose to improve the glossiness and flatten the print floor, in addition to increasing colour gamut,” explains Canon.
Like its predecessor, the Professional-1100 takes 11 inks – every of which has a big 80ml capability, although they’re new PFI-41000 inks.
Dye is sweet for velocity, colour and vibrancy, however Canon says the colour can break down as shortly as inside seven years. The Professional-1100 as an alternative makes use of pigment ink, which is best for distinction, black and white prints, and likewise longevity. Canon claims that its prints have a lightfastness of 200 years (or 180 years on fantastic artwork paper), which is a major bump up from the standard 60 years.
The brand new Lucia Professional II inks are additionally stated to enhance darkish colours in addition to black density on artwork paper, by densely arranging coloring supplies to realize wealthy colours and enhancing fantastic gradation in darkish areas.
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The ink ‘wettability’ can be elevated for a greater protection of black pigment particles, and pigments have a decrease reflectance to enhance black density as nicely. This additionally helps to chop down reflections that trigger bronzing: a detrimental impact the place prints can look metallic.
The brand new inks even have wax added to them, to make them extra scratch resistant on shiny paper. This could minimize down on waste and likewise save time from having to make one other print, which may take a number of minutes. Canon courses the Professional-1100 as a medium yield printer, solely exceeded by Canon printers with bigger MegaTanks.
You may in fact use Canon’s Auto Replenishment Service to reorder ink routinely whenever you’re working low. That is set to 10% by default, however might be custom-made for every ink – helpful if you understand you are going to be utilizing extra of some colours than others.
Talking of print instances, the Professional-1100 makes use of the identical PF-10 head as its predecessor so its velocity is unchanged. An A2 (LU-101 colour) print ought to take about 3 minutes 35 secs, whereas an A2 (PT-101 colour or mono) print ought to take about 6 minutes.
Borderless printing makes use of a vacuum system and begins at A2 measurement, which is a bit limiting if you wish to print borderless at smaller sizes.
It is not simply the printer itself that has been overhauled, both. There are some helpful options added to Canon’s Skilled Print & Structure software program, together with enhancements to Crystal Constancy – which might now extract additional info from Canon cameras such because the EOS R5 and R5 Mark II, for proofing in sure environments or to stop highlights blowing out beneath harsh exhibition lighting.
There’s additionally a brand new Black & White print mode, the Chrome Optimizer now has a trio of settings (On, Off or Partial) and it helps a bunch of recent print sizes starting from 7×10″ as much as 12×12″.
Canon additionally acknowledges that customers won’t need to soar between software program applications, so its drivers will also be picked up in Adobe packages comparable to Photoshop CC and Lightroom Basic CC to streamline the printing course of.
One other new neat addition is the Customized Media Registration Circulate. This provides customers extra choices for the way lengthy the Professional-1100 holds onto paper when drying, in addition to the peak of the printer head.
Gross sales for the Canon ImagePrograf Professional-1100 are as a consequence of begin in September at a value of £1,099.99 (US and Australian pricing to be confirmed).
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