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Print Speed Summary |
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 • The Pro 9500 Mark II is a very slow printer
• Printing documents on plain paper is also slow; about half a page a minute
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Product Tour |
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Performance |
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Photo Print Speed (1.00)
The Pro 9500 Mark II is not a fast printer, by any stretch of the imagination; in the highest quality printing mode, it took a lengthy 11 minutes, 24 seconds to produce the largest print size it can handle (a 13 x 19 print). Smaller prints took a long time to come out as well: we measured the time to produce a 10 x 8 print at 4 minutes and 17 seconds, and a 6 x 4 print took1 minute and 50 seconds. That makes it the slowest printer we've tested by a long chalk: the Canon Pro 9000 Mark II could produce two prints in the time that the 9500 Pro Mark II took. do For more on how we test print speeds, see this page.
| Canon Pro 9500 Mark II Photo Speed Comparison |
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Canon Pro 9500 Mark II
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Canon Pro 9000 Mark II
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Epson R1900
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HP B8850
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Canon Pro 9500 Mark II
Photo Print Speed Score Comparison |
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Document Print Speed (0.67)
Printing in the highest quality print mode for plain paper (which the driver refers to as High), the Pro 9500 Mark II is not a speedy device: it managed a snail-like print speed of 0.56 pages per minute, which is even slower than the Pro 9000 Mark II. At the Standard quality setting, it was quicker; we clocked it at 1.08 pages per minute in this mode, which is better, but still pretty darn slow. But, to be fair, this printer isn't really designed for printing documents on plain paper; it is a photo printer, and low-end laser printers are cheap enough that you could buy one of them as well if you need to print plain paper documents a lot.
Canon Pro 9500 Mark II
Document Print Speed Comparison |
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Canon Pro 9500 Mark II
High Quality
0.56
Pages Per Minute
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Canon Pro 9000 Mark II
High Quality
0.88
Pages Per Minute |
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Epson R1900
Normal Quality
2.06
Pages Per Minute
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HP B8850
High Quality
1.78
Pages Per Minut
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Canon Pro 9500 Mark II
Document Print Speed Score Comparison |
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Print Initialization (6.0)
Like most inkjet printers, the Pro 9500 Mark II has to stop every now and then to clean the print heads; if it didn't do this, they could get blocked as the ink dries in them. The Pro 9500 did seem to do this a bit more than most, though: it did so before any print that was more than a couple of minutes separated from the one before, taking a 15 to 30 second pause while the print clanked and thumped as it cleaned the print heads. It also puased mid-print occasionally while producing a large print, which made an already slow printer somewhat slower.
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