Canon - PIXMA PRO-100

Is your husband really deep into photography? If so, scrounge FB marketplace for a working used Canon Pro 100. I bought one basically brand new in box with 2 sets of ink for around $200. One of the best things I could’ve purchased because seeing your work printed out is so nice in this digital era. You can print small 4x6s with cheap photo paper or fine art prints up to 13x19.

I have four printers in my home printing lab.  Epson Sure Color P900 - this is my workhorse printer for black-and-white and some color, depending on the tonal range and the paper.  Canon Pixma Pro 100 - much cheaper ink, but I am less happy with the black-and-white results, though I think it does extremely well with images that are predominantly, red or green.  Epson XP7100 - my day to day home office printer that does extremely high-quality 4 x 6 glossy prints with minimal fuss.  Epson Stylus Pro 3880 - much more expensive to run on Epson inks than the P900, but much more flexible in terms of utilizing third-party in including a wide gamut set of dedicated gray scale ink.  I do my own exhibition printing and have access to a 48 inch wide format Eason roll printer.  I share all of us because this is doable, if you are serious about high-quality printing and want the precise control over what paper and output you achieve, but be prepared for a significant financial investment in ink and paper.  I also have the benefit of being taught digital printing by a highly accomplished photographer who, like me, was a skilled dark printer before moving to digital. He also just happens to have work in multiple famous museums and collections, so his printing skills are indisputable. But even with that knowledge, sometimes it takes me two or three prints to completely dial in an image. 

I started printing a few years ago. Got a Canon Pro-100 and fill my own carts. Printer was cheap because Canon was giving them as a bonus for buying one of the expensive Canon cameras. Prints up to 13" x 19". I give prints to people if they like a photo. When you give someone one of these it's impressive. Got a wall hung with blank canvases and I pin the prints to the canvas.

Get the lawyer a laser printer. For your photography, a dedicated A3+ photo printer is a beautiful thing. I used a Canon Pro-100 dye based printer for years. Great output. I think the pro-200 is its successor. Recently I jumped to the Pro-1100 17” pigment based printer. Excellent again plus even better, to my eye, on matte and art papers with the pigment inks. The Pro-300 also uses pigment inks but is cheaper being a 13” model.

I have a pixma pro 100 that I bought like a decade ago and still use it to print black and whites on that same paper you're talking about, they look amazing.

I've got a Canon PIXMA Pro 100 that I've been using for over a decade. It puts anything from Shutterfly to absolute shame. I get all of my printing paper from Red River, which also makes a big difference when comparing to the online print places.

No, not with that budget and if you don’t expect to pay even more ongoing for consumables (ink, paper). I love printing with my Canon Pixma Pro-100, but it’s 40lbs., needs its own table, and a full inkset is >$100. Even if you just get a dyesub Selphy for 4x6 prints, you can only use Canon Selphy-specific paper/ink cartridges and this is [an Amazon listing](https://a.co/d/gSEILsD) of $33.58 for 108 sheets. $50 won’t go very far.

I got a used pixma pro 100 for $250. It was worth $1000 back when it was on the market 15 years ago but its still stunning. The issue is that the ink is crazy at $17 per cartridge, and there's 8 cartridges. I ended up buying precision colors 3rd party ink for $130 and it will last me for a while. I see a lot of diy sticker and print makers online use an ecotank or another kind of inkjet tank printer instead. The quality will be decent and the ink is a lot cheaper since it doesn't use cartridges.

I have been VERY Happy with the Canon Pro-100 I bought a few years ago. Total amateur but this thing rocks. I bought mine used and I see them in the $100-$200 range.

> 8500 Sitting in this thread printer shopping because my Pro-100 died after 8 years :( I could make an attempt to replace the printhead for a couple hundred dollars or just upgrade from a 13 year old printer. Sad day for me.