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 colour prints, as well as three levels of black for true black-and-white photographs.

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.

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.

The Pro9500 MK II is available now and retails for $1,599.