Pixma pro 100 replacement ink

Can anyone recommend peplacement inks for the puxms pro 100

Mike Lee's videos are excellent but there are some additional ideas that are good for a beginner.
The easiest part is the actual filling and the hardest part is getting that original ball plug out of the hole.
So, the first time is the hardest.
Additional items you should have handy and a few things that seemed critical to me.
Use thin disposable gloves or end up with ink-stained hands.
Have extra pushpins, if you heat them to form a hole in the original plug, the pushpins can deform.
After you use the heated pushpin, let the ball cool for a bit before trying to screw in the little screw eye.
Always use electrical tape to seal the vent on top before filling. Cellophane tape can be difficult to get off and tears.
I bought (from Precision) and used separate syringes and needles for each color to avoid washing while working and minimize color pollution.
The orange clamp has a rubber disk that is supposed to seal the ink access hole on the bottom. Well, it doesn't always seal. I used a nickel-sized piece of tissue on top of that plug and it caught all the ink that leaked.
Always, always reset the chip first to minimize potential of spillage.
The original plug is under the QR code on top of the cartridge so without poking around I just sliced the plastic layer in that area off and all went well.
Reaming the filler hole with the 5/32 drill is crucial; that makes an easily and perfectly seal-able hole for the new plugs.
Rinse out the syringe well and then, after blowing air out the needle to expel any water, leave the plunger and barrel separated to dry. I used filtered water to be certain there would be as little residue in the needle as possible.

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Pixma Pro 100 low ink warning

Does the Pixma Pro 100 auto stop when insufficient ink is available to print properly or is the 'low ink' warning all you get until the it doesn't print correctly?

Hi mrjcall,
The PIXMA PRO-100 will warn you when the ink is "low" and stop printing when the ink is "out". Keep in mind that when the low warning appears, you have about 25% of the ink left in your ink tank.
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Canon Pixma pro 100 Ink how to identify the black cartridges when label was accidently removed

I just started putting a new Canon Pixma Pro 100 printer together- I was not thinking and removed two of the grey (light), and grey cartridges labels. Now I do not know which to put in the slots, I cannot see any gradient by holding them up to the light, and the actual cartridge is not marked. I am soooo dumb, any suggestions.

You got a 50/50 chance. Go for it!
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PIXMA Pro-100 and Windows 8.1 Help Please....

Hello,
I will try to be concise
Spent all day on the phone for this without the same answer twice *sigh*.
I have been told and I have read over and over that YES, the Pro-100 WILL absolutely work with Windows 8.1.
Then...I find out that it's possible that it will NOT work unless I have 8.1 Pro Pack.
Is this true?
IOW...Is there anyone using the PIXMA Pro-100 with Windows 8.1 *without *Pro Pack just fine?
I ordered the printer yesterday before being told about this, and need to know if I have to cancel my order before it ships.
Thank you very much for any and all help.
Sherri
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Sherri,
I have been using the Pro-100 along with three of the printers it has replaced, the 9000, 9500 and 9500 II since Win 8.1 came out. They all work and work well with WIndoze 8 or 8.1. I use Photoshop and Lightroom so the OS really doesn't matter. If you do not have either of these, I will suggest you check into Photoshop Elements as an option.
With one of these mentioned programs you do not need any thing additional. Including the Canon software that comes with the Pro-100. But a couple of Canon's software is pretty good like the printing on a DVD. But PS, or PSE, is where it at for photos that are possibile by the Pro-100.
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Questions before I purchase a Pixma Pro-100

Haven't spent any time over here on the printer side of the forum and I didn't see my questions posted so I will post them here hoping they aren't repeat questions.
Been researching photo printers and found the Pixma Pro-100 to suit my needs. This will be my first "photo' printer. I will be printing high res images from Lightroom (hopefully the plug-in works great).
1. Since I will be a light user (maybe printing once a month or even every other month), I'm concerned about plugged print nozzles or dried up ink. Does anyone have any experience on plugged nozzles or dried up ink? I do have a Canon iP100 for work which gets light use (also about once every other month) and I have not had any plugged nozzles so I'm optimistic that I will not have issues with the Pro-100 but I sure would appreciate some experienced feedback.
2. I see the printer comes with "Setup" ink tanks. Any idea how much printing I can get from these or should I just buy a set of ink tanks right up front?
3. Which refill set of tanks? If I'm only doing color printing, should I just buy the 5 color set plus black? I'm assuming the 8 color set (which includes the two shades of gray) are for gray scale printing. Once I get rolling, I'll obviously buy whatever is most economical but right now I don't know.
4. Paper - I see Canon has listed their paper plus all tested compatible paper on their web page. I do have some HP photo paper (not listed as compatible) that I would like to use up. I used this in the past on standard inkjet printers including the Canon ip100. Any idea how this paper will hold up on the Pro-100? Paper is HP Premium photo soft gloss and HP Premium photo high gloss. Of course I can try it but rather not waste ink if someone out there knows better.
5. I'm sure this is a dumb question for most, but is it best to print from RAW or convert and print JPG?
Thanks in advance, appreciate any feedback.

If I were going to use LR 4 to print, I would let it do it's thing with the proprietary file LR uses. I would not try it from a RAW or convert to tiff. Not to say you can't get good results but to lessen any more issues into it until you get comfortable with the new printer.
One thing about LR, remember to set your page size in the "page set-up" tab first.
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PIxma Pro 100 - Lightroom Incorrect image sizing for select paper sizes

I am trying to print from Lightroom to the Pixma Pro 100 using the A3+ Paper size (13"x19") In Lightroom, the page and printer setups are all correct (verified by Adobe's Tech support) and in the Print Preview area, everything looks great and ready to print.
Yet when I actually print the image to A3+ paper (and the image nearly fills the entire paper area) the resulting image is serverly cropped on the paper. In fact is looks like it is cropping the image to 8.5x11, which obviously, only uses a portion of the 13x19 paper size. It seems that Lighroom or the Canon Printer drivers are not respecting the selected paper size and defaulting to 8.5x11.
Here is a link to an image of what the print out looks like:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mylwpsns0uvr4io/2013-05-20%2009.00.15.jpg
This does not happen when printing from Print Studio Pro, nor from Photoshop itself.
I've dealt with Adobe Tech support and Canon - both are point fingers at each other. Meanwhile I am unable to print anything on larger paper sizes.
The Pixma Pro is the only printer connected and I've re-installed drivers and checked for updates. Still the same. At this point, any comments on the situation would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Bruce Johnson
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Bruce Johnson
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I am experiencing something like this as well.
I do almost all my printing in A3+ and I do it all directly from LIghtroom. No problem til sometime this summer (post firmware update). Now whenever I set it up for 13 x 19 (and LR shows that it is 13 X 19) the finished print is actually 7.5 x 11 on the 13 x 19 in paper.
Incredibly frustrating as I go through time, paper, ink, and tech support (at Canon and Adobe) trying to resolve this.
Last week a Canon technician walked me through a complete reinstall of the printer and then it worked again. This week it's back to the same mess, and neither a reinstallation of the printer today nor an update of my LR solfware resolved the problem.
I learned today that I am able to print the correct size using Print Studio Pro, but I have never used it in the past and I'm reluctant to switch from the functional LR to Canon workflow I had going (where I knew how my printing specs would come out)

Pixma Pro 100 printing setup error

I'm new to printing, I just got my Pixma Pro and so far have had terrible results. 1/10 times I get beautiful prints, the rest are terrible, washed out and like they have a grey film on them. I think its either a colour management or paper management issue. I'm trying to use 8.5 x 11 " Canon Pixma Photo Paper with Matte finish. I'm printing with Photoshop. I have the same problem whether I click on Photoshop handle colour or Printer handle colour, but the 1/10 nice prints were acheived manually setting the paper to "glossy" under the print settings menu in Photoshop CS6 rather than selecting Matte which is what the obvious choice is.
When I chose Photoshop handles colour management I get the same grey prints no matter what Printer Profile I select. Though it seems most logical to chose Matte Canon Pro - 100 <LU> 3 Photopaper because thats what I'm using, again the 1/10 nice prints were acheived selecting Photopaper Pro 3 <PT> Platinum.
I don't understand how any of this works. The picture I am trying to print is here, nice blues and greens. http://www.flickr.com/photos/27816471@N06/9076033417/in/set-72157634198994950 it just looks grey and washed out when I print, sort of like the printer is 1/2 out of ink but it says its not. Blacks and greys are good.
what do I do? I know its operator error but I can't re-produce any of the environment to get decent prints from this so i'm considering junking or returning. really dissapointed.
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It is very difficult to determine which side of the matte paper is the printing side.
Before you decide you have printer/printing problem get some glossy photo paper and try with that.
John Hoffman
Conway, NH
1D Mark IV, Rebel T5i, Pixma PRO-100, MX472

Pixma Pro-100 archival qualities

I am interested in the archival qualities of the photos printed from a Canon Pixma Pro-100 using Canon inks and photo papers. Are test results available?

With genuine Canon photo paper it'll be: 20 years in open air, 30 years in a glass frame and 300 years in an archival photo album.

I purchased a Pixma Pro-100. My prints do not reflect the edited images from CS6/LR5.

I just got a Canon Pixma Pro-100 printer. I'm running CS6 and LR5. My monitors are calibrated, my color space is Adobe RGB (1998). I want the Photoshop /LR to manage my color. I (believe) am using the correct profile for the Canon paper (Pro Luster). However, my prints do not reflect the edited versions I am viewing on my monitors. The colors are darker, dull, a bit on the reddish side, and not as vivid as what I am expecting. Is there anyone out there who can guide me to the proper way to set the up my printer and color space? I this is very confusing to me.

You don't need any additional gadgets to set up your monitor(s) and the printer. Mostly you will just frustrate yourself and waste a lot of ink and paper. Stop wasting your time with them, too.
You do need to get three things set carefully. You need the brightness, the contrast and the grey-scale set right for the printer.
Big point to remember you are dealing with two completely different types of color. One is light and the other is dyes. They will never match exactly except for maybe one or two colors at a time. I generally shoot for flesh tones as that is what people notice mostly.
Always check the details and never let the printer do any color managing. All Canon printers I have worked with have a reddish bias. You can not or at least it is very difficult to get rid of it. Canon engineers seem to prefer a warm tone in their printers.
I curently use three of the Canon Pro printers form the 9000, 9500 II amd the 100. All are great printers. But right now what you are seeing and what you are sending to the printer is different. These need to match or you need to know what to adjust in PS to make them match. Don't use LR to print, it isn't as good as PS and it will be different. If you must, stick to either/or but not both. I prefer PS.
Always shoot RAW and use ACR to convert in either LR or PS but I always print from PS.
Let me know how you get along.
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Pixma Pro-100 Leaving Smudges/Streaks on last part of 13x19" print

Hi guys, I am in desperate need of help as I have several customer orders that I can't fulfill because my printer just stopped functioning correctly today. I have a Pixma Pro-100, and I have printed several hundred 13x19" prints with it. Today, it started adding black smudges/streaks on either side of the last few inches of every 13x19" print. I cleaned the printhead, aligned it, cleaned the nozzles, and even took the printhead out and cleaned it using the "soak in shallow water" method, before letting it dry completely. It still produces the same black smudges/streaks on either side of the last few inches of the prints. When I remove the printhead after a print, I can notice what looks like black ink build up all around the bottom brown part where the ink sprays out from the printhead. I've tried wiping it off with an alcohol wipe and reinstalling the printhead. Nothing seems to work. I should also note that the sponge that soaks up excess ink inside the printer seems to be really full of wet ink. I tried soaking up as much as I could with paper towels and got quite a lot of it out of there. It seems to me that this couldn't be the problem, though, because the smudges are on the printed side of the paper and not the rear side. Can anyone help me, please?

I have the same general problem. I have performed the roller cleaning several times, the bottom plate cleaning maybe 30 times with various weights of paper, I have ink streaks and excessive ink on prints of about 3/16" x 2-3" streaks x 3 to 4 of them groued in upper left corner, and misc spots. I recently chnaged ink cartdriges (canon) becasue the black was not printing correctly. So I repalced all of them and now the splotches/streaks occur.

Canon Pixma Pro-100 printer ejects 3.8 in of a 4X6 paper and prints only 2.2 in of the image printing from Photoshop CS6, I'm sure I set everything correctly - what could I be missing?

Using Mac Pro running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) & editing & printing from Photoshop CS 6.
Have new Canon Pixma Pro-100 printer and set it up yesterday. First thing printed was a
document from MS Word (a letter) 8.5 X 11 plain paper - this came out OK. Next I fire up
Photoshop and open a 4 X 6 inch image to do a test print. I set it up in the print dialog as
4X6 paper, Canon's Pro Glossy paper profile, rear tray, standard print quality, Photoshop
manages the color. I load the paper in the rear tray close the covers and hit print. Now, when
it starts to print the printer moves about 3.8 inches of paper out of the printer and starts printing
on the remaining 2.2 inches then spits the paper out. It does this in Photoshop (any image it doesn't
matter), and it does it printing from Capture NX. I have been able to get it to print on the paper
correctly using Apple's Preview program but that that's not going to do me any good. I was on
the phone with Canon tech support for about 2 hours and they were completely puzzled suggesting
I would have to use Canon's printing apps instead to print - that doesn't do me any good either.
I want to be able to print from Photoshop. Any one every heard of this or experienced the same
problem? Thanks JamesD!

Hello again. I recognize that a print is good if you like it and bad if you don't, despite what others might say, but I will at least share my experiences. They might help you or others who are following this thread.
My monitor is calibrated with Spyder 3. Gamma 2.2, 6500K, 83 cd/m^2. Contrast at 50%; brightness about 52%. My monitor lets me choose blackness level - it defaults to 50%.
When I print the test image I linked to above, using Lightroom, with no adjustments, my technical output is as follows:
Middle step wedge shows twelve disticnt steps. Whitest step is color of unprinted paper.
It varies from paper to paper, but I can discerne at least the 252 step and on some papers 253 - telling me I have good highlight detail.
On the black side I discerne 8 or 10, nothing lower. (That sounds like what you are reporting).
Artistically I am very happy how my print looks - nice red strawberries, good flesh tones, etc.
One my monitor, the on-screen image is almost identical to the print. I am surprised that you can see the 2 wedge step on screen at a very similar brightness.
I also checked out this B&W test image:
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/bw_printing/bw-test-image-2.html
You are probably aware of this since you are printing with Print Studio Pro, but others may not be.
You can print a series of test images:
find the one that best suits your taste, enter the calibration values in PSP, and save them as a custom setting. Then, each time you want to print recall the setting.
You can do a similar thing in Lightroom using the printer driver and User Templates.
There would be some one-time trial and error to that approach.
John Hoffman
Conway, NH
1D Mark IV, Rebel T5i, Pixma PRO-100, MX472

Unable to center a print on 8/5 x 11 inch paper with Pixma Pro 100

I've been using a Pixma Pro 100 for just 3 weeks. No matter what I do or try, prints on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using the manual feed tray are not centered. In portrait orientation, the margin on the leading edge short edge is slightly less no matter what size the image. For example, if the leading edge margin is 1/4 inch, the opposite margin is 3/8 inch. If the leading edge is 7/8 inch, the opposite margin is 1 inch dead. The long side margins are equal. I'm using Photoshop Elements 9.0. I've tried printing out of the edit space, where "center print" is an option, but I realize now that this just centers the image in the window representing the print, that it does not center the image on the page. I have not notice this problem with smaller size paper, such as 4 x 6. Any suggestions? I have not tried loading the paper in the internal or "rear" tray because I thought the paper path with the manual feed would be straighter. Besides, I'd like to be able to use the manual feed with even larger paper and get centered prints.
P.S. I just tried selecting "borderless" print in PSE 9 with a custom image size smaller than the paper, e.g. 7 x 9.8 inches, and crop to fit. Just looking at the preview, this seems to have resulted in equal margins left and right, top and bottom (the L-R margins are different than the T-B margins of course). I was unable to make any of the necessary adjustments in Canon Print Studio Pro - I could not figure out how to unlink the height and width of the image.

"... that is a remarkably unhelpful and condescending response."
Condescending or not, however, it is still most likely PSE that accomplishs this task. I don't use PSE anymore since I switched to Lightroom. Hence the suggestion to find a PSE forum.
But it is the software that let's you move or put the photos where you want them to print.
A PSE forum may be able to show you how to do this. Example below, if I want two 5x7s in oppoiste corners, it is done easily in LR.
If I wanted one photo centered it is a simple click to get the adjustment "squares" and move the photo. (Bottom picture)
BTW, I am not worried.
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I have a Pixma Pro 100. Does anyone know what printer setting I would use to print on 11 x 14 paper?

I'm trying to make 11 x 14 prints but I'm unsure what what size to set it as in Photoshop. I'm using Epson paper which works fine with the printer I just don't know what settings to use.
Thanks.

Go into the OnScreen Manual and search for page P010. That will give you instructions for custom paper sizes.
John Hoffman
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1D Mark IV, Rebel T5i, Pixma PRO-100, MX472

Pixma Pro-100, ICC Profiles, etc

I'll try to make a long story short. About 5 months ago I bought a Canon T3i camera. Didn't like the prints I got at department stores, bought a PIxma Pro-100. Did some more research, realized I need to calibrate my monitor, bought a Datacolor Spyder Pro 4.
My question(s) are about the software used to get the prints. I don't have PhotoShop, and I don't want to buy it. I have PaintShop Pro, but realize I can't use that. My computer is Win7. I don't know cameras, but I've been in IT for 30 years. I know computers.
I am not pleased with the prints I've gotten so far. The colors all look weak (for lack of a better word). Everything I've read about the Pro100 says the colors should be rich (saturated). Mine are not.
I first tried the software that came with my camera. Digital Photo Professional. It works with the Canon plugin, Print Studio Pro. It seems that it recognized, or loads, the ICC profiles for the Canon paper I use. It doesn't seem to recognize or give me the option to pick an ICC profile for my monitor.
I called Canon support. The guy I talked to recommended Easy-PhotoPrint EX software. Said it should have come on the CD with my Pixma. It did not. That software does not use the Canon plugin. And seems more limited. He said it works well with Canon cameras. Honestly, he seemed like he was BS'ing me the whole time. If you don't know the answer, it's ok to just say so, is my feeling.
Ok, it turned out to be a long story. Can someone help me? This printer I have does not measure up to everything I've read about it. I've spent a bunch of money to get good prints from my Canon camera. I don't have that, not even close. What do I need to do??
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The answer depends on how you are printing. If you use Canon Print Studio Pro it does all the appropriate adjustments after you pick the option in CPSP.
If you are printing from photo software there will generally be an option to either let the printer manage the printing or have the software manage printing. In the software managed printing option you would choose paper profiles in the softwarer and in the printer driver set color management to None.
Here is a good resource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlV7cqqladQ&feature=youtu.be
John Hoffman
Conway, NH
1D Mark IV, Rebel T5i, Pixma PRO-100, MX472

Canon pixma pro 100

Hi guys,
I've just received my new canon pixma pro 100 printer & I'm having problems setting up. When powered up the printer instantly made a grinding noise. Switched it off a few times but the print head holder failed to slide along the rails. All stoppers & tapes have been removed so nothing to obstruct the set up process.
Can anyone help or had similar issues?
Thanks in advance.

You are possitive there is no packing or tape left inside? 100% sure?
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