Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-300 A3 Plus Colour Photo Wireless Printer - 10-Pigment Based Ink Technology - Borderless Printing - WiFi & Ethernet Connectivity - Professional Photo Print

Brilliant printer. Expensive, but if you want great photo quality over a range of paper types then this is it. I am an amateur photographer but I bought it because I was preparing images for an international print competition. This printer already comes with pre-programmed profiles for a wide range of papers and I was able to experiment in order to select the best paper for my images. Image quality is sharp. It uses a 10 colour ink system and I was surprised to find that the price of a full set of genuine Canon inks was not much more than that of a four colour pack for my old HP printer which is nowhere near the quality of the ImagePROGRAF and only prints to A4. The ink also seems to be lasting quite well. Installation was very simple from the Canon website. You do have to be prepared for it’s larger size and weight but this also means that it is much more sturdily built than cheaper printers. Note that I have given five stars for “touch screen” as the control system but it is actually a scroll though menu system. Five stars still because it is very easy to use.

Purchased when Canon were about to introduce an updated version (310) so had the benefit of a price drop. Expect newer version as good in quality.When you buy these higher end printers expect to pay out a lot in replacement bespoke inks. Eek! it can go through the ink quite rapidly. Mainly as Canon insist on cleaning the head regularly, agitating as they call it. I've just been printing b&w yet it still goes through all the other inks even when they aren't apparently being used (scratches head). This I think is a factor of the rival Epson printers also. Tip: regularly just print out the nozzle check rather than an actual image to save on ink.However the results are stunning.I found it can be slow to print initially but but once it gets its act together is fine and sufficiently quick. Not to noisy either. Yet to have a paper jam, 300+ images.It's not enormous but big enough, place it on a very sturdy cabinet as it has quite a pronounced sideways wobble if not.Hopefully it will last.

I've wasted hundreds of £'s in the last few years, having pictures printed by some of the best known picture printing and framing businesses online; I've calibrated my monitor, downloaded all the correct ICC profiles, softproofed my pictures in Lightroom, before submitting my picture to be printed and framed. More often than not, a week or so later, a box would arrive which I would open, only to experience that all-too-familiar sinking feeling when I saw that the picture I had received was either too dark, too bright, lacking resolution, or any number of other colour related issues.I'd pretty much given up on printing my pictures and resigned myself to the fact that maybe my photo's were really just for viewing on screen.Deciding to approach things differently, I decided to give this printer a go - it's not cheap, but I figured that if I could master the art of printing my pictures myself, I'd save a lot of money in the long run.Setting the printer up was super-easy. Once all the inks were installed and the printer had spent a few minutes preparing itself, I hopped into Lightroom and re-proofed a recent picture using the Canon Photo Paper Pro Platinum ICC profile (there were 5 sheets of this paper in the box as a sample).A couple of minutes later, my first picture had been printed and the quality is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING - I've only printed 3 pictures so far and I can't stop looking at them and smiling inside - the quality is way better than anything I've received from a photo lab in the post.I've now sent off for samples of other canon photo papers and will experiment a bit more with different A4 papers, before I decide which A3 paper to go for.Now I'm looking forward to having so many more of my pictures up on the wall and a reliable source of prints at my fingertips - I do love looking at my pictures on screen, but there really is something special about seeing your work on paper.I am primarily a wildlife photographer who has invested many £000's on my camera gear - the £700 I shelled out on this printer feels like the best 'photographic' investment I can remember making.I don't ever really bother with submitting reviews on Amazon, but I feel so happy with this purchase, I felt that I had to!

This is a really good printer. The quality of the photographs it produces are excellent. The inks are pigment-based, and when combined with the right papers, they will last for a very long time (200 years).You should calibrate your monitor and only use genuine Canon inks for the best results.I am very pleased - love it!