Canon imagePROGRAF iPF9100 - 60” Printer

Overview
Built to put advanced printing technologies into the hands of artists and photographers, the new 60" iPF9100 will help to fulfill your creative potential like never before. With the iPF9100, Canon delivers impressive 60" colour output, strength in paper handling and speed in output - everything a professional needs to productively and efficiently create enhanced colour materials. The iPF9100 printer is designed to fulfill the needs of any digital artist looking to create captivating images from capture to output. The iPF9100 is equipped with a unique pallet of 12 colours to deliver a broader gamut for greater tonal range and more precise colour reproduction. The new ink formulation for Black, Matte Black, Gray and Photo Gray reduces bronzing while providing stronger ink adhesion to the print media, resulting in better scratch resistance without any additional protection. The iPF9100 incorporates the 12-colour pigment ink system with LUCIA™ inks, the L-COA controller, along with an 80GB hard drive. The Canon L-COA processor, which is dedicated to the imagePROGRAF, is designed to optimize the best quality output at the highest possible speeds. Vivid, breathtaking, long-lasting prints are achieved by combining these advanced technological Canon achievements.

Its built-in features put the power to produce at your fingertips. Designed for reliability, simplicity, and above all, quality, the iPF9100 is the professional's answer for superior quality prints. The new iPF9100 printer is equipped with the ability to recalibrate itself to the original factory settings and apply any necessary adjustments across the printer's media types. The result - a more predictable printing platform where results can be consistently achieved. The iPF9100 has opened a world of new possibilities with Canon's workflow solutions that simplify printer operation and expand the creative options for large-format photography and fine-art applications.

Features
• 12-Colour Pigment Ink System - Canon's LUCIA pigment ink offers excellent colour fastness and stability with a remarkably wide colour gamut. LUCIA ink minimizes bronzing and graininess
• Built-in Calibration - Equipped with a built-in calibration feature to help you consistently achieve superior results
• Automatic Switching Between Black Inks - Utilizes automatic switching between Regular Black and Matte Black Ink, helping to eliminate wasted ink and time of swapping out ink tanks
• Print Head System - Dual print head system with a total of 30,720 nozzles
• Borderless Printing - 4-sided edge-to-edge printing, only with roll media
• Efficiency & Speed - The iPF9100's built-in 80GB HDD processes jobs fast, maintains productivity and enables easy unmanned printing
• Non-firing Detection and Compensation Function - When clogged or non-firing nozzles are detected, print head cleaning cycle is automatically executed. If the nozzle remains obstructed, the iPF9100 will automatically compensate by re-routing the ink to functioning nozzles

12-Colour Pigment Ink System - New LUCIA inks
The iPF9100 printer's ink set is comprised of 12 colours: four standard process colours with Photo Cyan and Photo Magenta; plus Red, Green, Blue, Matte Black, Gray, and Photo Gray. This unique combination creates a broad colour pallet and delivers exceptional print results. The iPF9100 printer's LUCIA ink is specially formulated to reduce graininess and bronzing and resist scratching and fading. Black, Matte Black, Gray and Photo Gray have been reformulated to optimize black ink density for exceptional monochrome photo-quality output. Based on the type of media being used, the iPF9100 printer automatically chooses the correct black ink to achieve the best print results.

Built-in Calibration
The iPF9100 printer is equipped with the ability to recalibrate itself to the original optimal factory settings and apply any necessary adjustments across all the printer's media types. This creates a stable, predictable printing platform on which superior results can be consistently achieved. The system has built-in calibration sensors that accurately detect variation in print heads and measure the density levels of the inks and make necessary adjustments to return calibration to the original factory settings.

Dual Print Head System
Engineered for speed and advanced image production, the iPF9100 boasts Canon's dual print head system to lay down ink with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Unlike conventional printers with a single print head, the iPF9100 uses two high-precision, high-density print heads with a total of 30,720 nozzles. It lays down precise 4 picoliter-size ink droplets to produce sharp detail and excellent image quality. The superfine 4 picoliter-size droplets produce delicate colour gradations and high-definition. The twin lines of nozzles for each colour on the new print heads enable the iPF9100 to minimize the number of printing passes and still maintain print quality. The two 1-inch iPF series print heads each boast 6 colours with 2,560 nozzles per colour. That's a total of 30,720 nozzles. More nozzles mean more ink is ejected with every pass of the print head, no matter what print mode or media. It gives new meaning to "high-speed output."

L-COA Controller - New Print Controller
Like other powerful Canon systems, the iPF9100 is built around the innovative L-COA (Large Format Printer Common Architecture) processor. When it comes to speed and accuracy, the L-COA processor is in a league of its own. By intelligently processing print data and directing the high-precision, high-density print heads to deposit ink, the system ensures image clarity and colour accuracy, even for complex graphics and colour-rich photographic images. Combined with Canon's dual print head design and the most ink nozzles per colour in the industry, the L-COA controller helps achieve phenomenal print speeds.

Print Plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® and Digital Photo Professional - An export print module
These export modules allow users to directly process and print RAW image files from DPP or Adobe Photoshop. These plug-ins are export modules that bypass the operating system's dependent print driver, allowing processing of 16-bit RGB images directly, which dramatically increases gradations and as a result, overall image quality.
New added features:
• Full screen preview
• More print quality selections
• Categorized paper type view
• Roll paper layout view
• Bi-cubic enlargement

Printer Driver 2007
The imagePROGRAF printer driver works with both Windows® and Macintosh® operating systems offering exceptional, high-quality prints through easy usability and accurate colour. The printer driver incorporates existing imagePROGRAF features along with new, easy-to-use functions. The monochrome photo mode produces neutral, high-quality monochrome images with the primary use of the Black, Gray and Photo Gray inks. This mode helps to ensure minimal shifts in colour that are commonly caused by the use of colour inks in black and white prints, thus outputting neutral tones with smooth gradation. Another easy-to-use feature is the free layout feature2, which allows for custom nesting of separate images and documents.
Features:
• Web links (Support tab) - An html-based utility that provides access to websites through the printer driver
• Categorized Media list - Media names are organized in a hierarchical tree structure
• More detailed page preview - provides a clearer and more intuitive preview
• Scan to Copy - imageRUNNER enlargement copy
• 14 preset document profiles (examples are Poster, CAD, Photo)
• Automatic print quality options dependent on print application and media
• Borderless printing
• Saturation Adjustment
• Easy Setting/Advanced Setting/Print Setting
• Monochrome Photo Mode Support for Adobe RGB
• Free Layout feature

Digital Photo Front-Access
Digital Photo Front-Access has been developed by Canon as a utility to import images from a camera, memory card, USB, etc. and incorporate them into software applications such as PosterArtist and Photoshop.

• Auto image retouching
• Ability to open in PosterArtist and Photoshop
• Support for JPEG and RAW images
• Simple configuration of print settings by means of the printer driver

Specifications
Printer Type:
Print Head: PF-03
Technology: FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering)
Replacement: End user replaceable
Number of Nozzles:
Nozzles: 30,720
2,560 Nozzles per Colour
12 colours total
Nozzle Pitch:
1,200 dpi
Non-firing nozzle detection and compensation
Print Resolution (Up to):
Colour: 2,400 x 1,200 dpi (Max)
OS Compatibility:
Windows®(2000/XP/Vista 32/64bit)
MAC(OS9,OSX)1
Standard Interface:
USB 2.0 High-Speed
10/100 Base-T/TX
Optional: IEEE 1394 (Firewire®)
Ink Droplet Size:
4 picoliter
Ink Capacity:
330ml per colour (Optional 700ml)
Ink Types:
Ink Type: Cyan, Photo Cyan, Magenta, Photo Magenta, Yellow, Black, Matte Black, Gray, Photo Gray, Red, Green, Blue
Buffer/Ram:
640 MB, 80GB Hard Drive
Media Width:
Cut Sheet: 8" - 60"
Roll: 10" - 60"
Media Thickness:
Front Loading Manual Feed: 0.07 - 0.8mm
Roll: 0.07 - 0.8mm
59 Feet (18 meters)2
5.9" (150mm)
515mm (JIS B2), 1, 030mm (JIS B0), 594mm (ISO A1), 841mm (ISO A0), 10", 14", 16", 24", 36", 42"
Paper-Feed Method:
Roll Feed: One roll, front output
Front Loading Manual Feed: One sheet, front output
Languages:
GARO (Canon Proprietary)
Noise Level (Approx.):
Operation: 51 dB (A) or less
Standby: 35dB (A) or less
Acoustic Power: 6.7 Bels
Physical Dimensions:
90.5" x 30.2" x 45.0"
Weight:
Approximately 362 lbs. with stand
Power Source:
AC-100-240V (50-60Hz)
Power Consumption:
Maximum: 190W or less
Standby 6W or less
Power Off: 1W or less (Compliant with Executive Order)
Operating Environment:
Temperature: 59¡ - 86¡ F (15¡ - 30¡ C)
Relative Humidity: 10-80% (No Condensation)
User-replaceable items:
Print Head (PF-03), Maintenance Cartridge (MC-08), Durable Rotary Blade (CT-06)
Ink Tanks PFI-301 (330 ml) / PFI-701 (700 ml): C, M, Y, PC, PM, R, G, B
PFI-302 (330 ml) / PFI-702 (700 ml): BK, MBK, GY, PGY
Software Included:
Printer Driver 2007, Digital Photo Front-Access, Print Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Print Plug-in for Digital Photo Professional, Printer Driver Extra Kit (Free Layout, imageRUNNER Linking Function)