Review on 🖨️ Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000: Professional Photographic Inkjet Printer (17 x 22-Inches) - Ultimate Precision and Performance by Kristen Smith

Since there is so much confusion here I should start the review with that. When you first set up this printer and install ink cartridges before you print anything, all of your ink levels will only be about 50%. It is in order! It's not because there's anything wrong with the printer, or because Canon made it cheaper and included cartridges that were only half full (as far as I know). Each ink cartridge is connected to the printhead by a long flexible tube. You can see them all by opening the printer's service cover. Before you can print anything, the printer has to fill these tubes with ink. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of ink, so you start all levels at around 50%, but that's about it. If you run out of ink and put in a new cartridge, it won't happen again because the tubes are already filled with ink, allowing you to use the full capacity of the cartridge to print photos. Edit: I can confirm this now as I just put my first replacement cartridge in this printer. The ink level displayed on the printer is considered full when a new cartridge is installed. It won't shrink in half like the original original cartridge you install when the printer is new. Also, I've since learned that the printer actually has separate ink tanks inside the printer, so they're also part of what needs to be refilled when the printer is new, and why your new cartridges start at 50% when the printer is new is. . Now that it isn't, I have to say I'm really happy with this printer. The print quality is excellent and works perfectly. Forget all the frustrations and shortcomings you usually associate with printers. The thing just works. I don't know what else to say about that. I've even used roll paper (which I cut beforehand as this printer doesn't print directly from a roll of paper) and the printer prints on paper that has been folded through operation with no problem. roll. It features a vacuum feed system that you'll find on most large format printers, so it helps feed paper even if it's not quite flat when it feeds into the printer. I was also very satisfied with the ink consumption. I leave this printer on all the time and usually print something about every two weeks. I have printed a total of about 16 photos with this printer, most of them large 16" x 24" with a margin of about 1" on all sides, and none of the ink cartridges are empty. Again, remember this is with cartridges starting at about 50% due to what I mentioned above. At the moment the black and gray cartridges are running low (about 10% now) as the photos I printed were usually very dark night photos. But they're still not quite done. Edit: I just ran out of my first ink cartridge, the photo is black, but that was only after I'd printed about 25 prints, almost all 16x24" with a 1" margin. And that's with cartridges rated at 50 % have started. Not bad! The only problem I've had with this printer is that I can't get the Canon Accounting Manager software to work when connected to the printer via Wi-Fi. It seems to be working when I connect it directly via USB.This is software that gives you an estimate of the cost of each individual print based on the cost of ink and paper used by the printer.I called Canon tech support and they couldn't get it to work either. For what it's worth, I use a Macbook with this printer. Windows users may be lucky. So it would be nice to have one, but the rest of the printer is so good , that I still give it 5 stars. Update: I am still very happy with this printer. However, I'm becoming more and more aware of the importance of using this printer frequently. The longer you don't print, the more ink is used to clean the printhead when you print again. And it seems to waste a lot of ink if you don't print for weeks. I would suggest typing every day if possible. But it can be anything, even a tiny dot of the same color on a piece of paper, and you can use the same piece of paper every day to do this. It's just very important to print something (everything) often if you want to save a lot of ink. I'm pretty sure people who say this printer uses a lot of ink aren't printing very often. And in this case, a lot of ink is consumed. You can tell it's been too long since you've printed something because when you send a job to the printer, it takes a long time to "set up" (it makes a series of noises) before it actually prints paper pulls. in and prints. If the printer barely hesitates and starts printing shortly after you send it a job, it means you've printed enough. Also, I don't have that particular need to have an accounting manager, which I mentioned earlier. On the printer's control panel, you can see in the job history exactly how many milliliters of ink were used by each of the most recent jobs in the job history. If you want to worry about the cost of each print, you may need an accounting manager. But it's enough for me to look at how much ink a job uses from time to time and I can get a pretty good idea of how much a print of a certain size will cost. Going back to what I said earlier, I realized that printing a tiny dot of ink on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper costs about five and a half cents in ink, assuming you're a new typist and not using a lot ink from it to clean itself before printing. I think most of that ink is just used to keep itself clean and not just to print a small dot on a piece of paper. more economical than all the ink a printer uses if you let it dry for too long without printing anything. So first of all, use this printer often and it will do you good, even if it means printing just a tiny dot on the same piece of paper every day. This printer doesn't like long periods of non-printing.