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Ease of Use (8.00)
Simple printer control buttons and well designed drivers and software make the Canon Pixma Pro 9500 an easy printer to use. There is a small learning curve when printing on nonstandard media, as the front-loading paper tray takes a minute to get the hang of. Ink cartridges can be monitored without effort, and replacement of cartridges is just a plug-and-play action.
Value(7.00)
The Canon Pixma Pro9500 is comparably priced with the Epson Stylus Pro R2400. Even though the HP B9180 offers larger volume ink tanks, the price per milliliter is more expensive than the Canon printer.
Comparisons
 The Epson Stylus Photo R2400 is the Pro9500’s nearest competitor in price, for $849.99 each. Both use pigment inks, with different ink combinations. The Epson is know more for high quality black-and-white printing, which is aided by the extra gray inks—light black and light light black. (How can black be light??). The Pro9500 has only one gray tank. The two black inks, matte and photo, have to be manually switched on the Epson R2400, while the Pro9500 employs an automatic system for this change.
 The HP Photosmart B9180 sells for $699.99 and also utilizes pigment inks, but it employs one less cartridge than the Epson. In this way, its ink configuration is more similar to the Pro9500, except that it lacks the red and green inks. Inks are available in 33-milliliter cartridges, more than twice the size of the Canon cartridges (and who knows about the Epson cartridges?). The B9180 also has network connectivity, a feature the other three printers on this list lack.
 For users who may not be able to swing the $850 price tag, the Canon Pixma Pro9000 offers eight-color, dye-ink printing for $499.99. Being dye ink, the colors are more vivid and punchy, and users will have to accept the attendant increase in contrast that comes with that. Otherwise, this printer produces very good quality prints.
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