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Product Tour Summary |
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 • A large, bulky printer
• Only three buttons on the front
• One paper tray, plus a single sheet feeder
• A flat paper path for printing on cardboard and other non-flexible media
• 8 Ink cartridges |
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Introduction |
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Setup & Software |
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Front
The Pro 9000 Mark II is a rather simple looking printer; there are no screens, only a handful of buttons and a single flashing light that warns of an error. There are three seperate paper input trays; the main one on the top of the printer, a front paper tray for loading large paper, and a flat paper tray on the back that can be used with thick card or fabric that can't be curved.
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Paper input tray |
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Power |
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Resume/cancel |
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Front feed control
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Front paper tray
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Paper output tray |
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Direct print port
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Back
The back of the Pro 9000 Mark II is as button and blinky light free as the front. The only interesting features are the USB port, the power socket, the wheels (which make moving the printer forward and back easier) and the rear paper path, which allows thick media to be printed without any bending. In the photo below, the main paper tray on the top of the printer is in its folded down position.
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USB port |
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Wheels for moving printer
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Rear flat paper path (in open position)
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Power socket |
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| The Pro 9000 Mark II with the paper trays in the open position... |
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| ... and closed. |
Ink Cartridges
At the time of writing, Canon sells a complete set of 8 cartridges for $104.99, and the individual cartridges are available for $15. You can pick up the complete set from Amazon for around $80, though, and the ink cartridges are the same ones used in the Pro 9000.
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| The Pro 9000 Mark II uses 8 ink cartridges |
The ink cartridges sit inside the printer in a tray above the print head. When you open the front of the printer, this try amoves out to the middle of the revealed space to provide easy access. Each of the ink cartridges can be removed individually, and a small LED light on each one identifies the one that needs changing when the ink runs low. There are 8 cartridges: green, red, photo magenta, black, photo cyan, cyan, magenta and yellow.
In the Box
The Pro 9000 Mark II does not come with a huge number of extra bells and whistles in the box:
• Getting Started manual
• Drivers CD
• Photoshop Elements CD
• Set of ink cartridges
One thing that is noticeably absent is the USB cable; you'll need to bring your own to print, as the USB ports on the front and back are the only way to send prints to the printer.
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