I Finally Got a Photo Printer: Canon imagePROGRAF Pro-1000

I bought a Pro-1000 and it used up the supplied ink very fast. Much too fast for my liking. Given it was 500+ to buy new inks I put it back in its box and that's where it's been for 4-5 years. I'm not sure how easy it would be to get going again and fear it is clogged up with dried ink.

Love the video, it's really well presented and helpful for newbies like me. I didn't know what "dynamic range" was so I looked it up and I think it has more to do with camera lenses and not paper, but either way I learned it because of this video.

Where does the ink go in the cleaning cycles?

Prints are cool until you realize it cost $300 apiece the frame it

Well done, Nick. Always enjoy watching your videos. I've been using the pro1000 since 2016, and using Canon's printing utilities rather than printing from Lightroom. Lately been printing on Canson papers with their ICC profiles. I don't keep a big supply of inks on hand, just order a replacement as soon as I get the alert (!) when printing. Usually can go for several more days before actually running out. B&H or Amazon can typically deliver next day. As for feeding the curled paper into the printer, after letting it sit flat overnight, I hang the paper over a towel bar mounted on the wall behind the printer, and then feed it into the printer, as I'm pretty limited on space. But I still hover over the printer making sure it goes through the printer smoothly.

Ink. How much? UV ink fade?

This was far too entertaining and hilarious for a printer review. You’re rad dude keep it up!

Awesome video buddy! Such a great insight into the background work

Printing regularly certainly helps prevent the ink drying in the print head. Grrr.

Thoroughly entertaining :))

I'm looking at spending my pocket money on this bad boy, would you say its better to buy a reel of photopaper material and cut cut it to size as required than buy a4,a3,a2 and so on?

Crazy Nick Carver.

With due respect, anyone still on their installation inks may not have had the printer long enough to comment on print frequency or its efficiency. I've found the MC-20 maintenance cartridge to be the highest consumable. I can let the printer sit for a couple weeks between jobs (I'm a hobbyist) without significant ink loss ($) in cleaning cycles. My advice to anyone considering the printer is to buy a complete set of inks upon purchase and double up on the chroma, the MC20 and the photo grey and black. That should leave you set for a fair long time.
Nick, do you mount any prints? After I dove into the joy of printing I found myself with loads of inked paper stuck on walls with thumb tacks. Not all that appealing. So I began mounting prints on artist canvas. Again, not very satisfying. I'm not interested in building a framing studio so I decided to try dry mount on Dibond. I thought I had it dialed until I found 3M 568 adhesive film has been discontinued. If you have any experience or plans on going down that road I would be very interested in what you care to share. And White Gloves... everyone needs to buy white gloves.... really.

I would love one of those test pieces, the one with the colored cactus and the black and white lol

curled paper: what if you cut the paper to the size you needed and lay it out and cover it, and maybe weigh it down. for a day or 2?? 🤔

Nick, can you please tell me what straight edge you are using?

Tomorrow I'll buy a pro1000 thanks to you Nick.

Next step should be to stop shooting film and just get a point and shoot pocket camera.

Great info/review. Thank you

I also own the Pro-1000. My first choice were the Hahnemühle papers. Unfortunately I didn't get the results that I hoped for. Not with the Hahnemühle ICC Profiles nor with custom ICC Profiles that I got from a service for my specific printer and these papers. I then tried Canson papers and those prints ended up really nice. It's just a great to have full control over the complete process. :)

Thanks for this video Nick, I'm looking at getting an Image Prograf Pro 1000. I normally outsource most of my prints, however I think its finally time lol.

Great presentation! It's been years since self printing and I am getting into Iris Photography as a new business model and am not sure where to begin. I want to offer prints to those having their Iris photographed. There would be lots of cool shadows and lines as the highlight of such photos. I don't have the needs you do and wonder if you can think of a paper that would make an Iris pop with detail. I'm thinking luster for the most part. Thanks!

This is my favorite comedy channel.

"Damn girl" hahaha

Wow. You made a 15 minute video on a photo printer and I actually stopped everything else and watched every second. Good work. Now, off to give plasma and hope Canon does layaway.

Can I ask which other printers you were choosing between and why you choose this against, let's say the equivalent Epson that doesn't use the ink cartridges?

lot of money for that kind of boring pictures...

The pen segment had me crying, so funny

I am 76 years old so have been in the photo business for a "few years". I did a lot of 2 1/4" square and 4"x5" black and white and color photography but finally switched over to mostly digital about 18 years ago. I had a few of the Epson printers like the 3800, 3380, etc. but found them to be more likely to clog and spit ink even with frequent use. I decided to switch to the Canon Pro 1000 about 1 1/2 years ago. It is a superior printer with some serious engineering in it. It does require doing some tricks to save ink and ensure consistent work. Ignore the people who say a 1000 uses a lot of ink. When it is new it draws ink from the cartridges into the feeder tubes so once they are filled the cartridges will be about 50% used.... but that doesn't mean all that ink is dumped into the dump tank. Also.... the next cartridges will not need to fill the tubes again so will show a more realistic amount of ink left. If you turn off the machine each day it will go through a full purge, etc. cycle the next day and waste ink. There is an option in the setup to NOT auto shut off after so many hours of non-use. I also got a small Uninterruptable power supply that ran about $100 that I plug the printer into. It won't handle the print operation itself although haven't tested that.... it is solely to keep the power on in the event of a power failure.

To keep the heads perfectly clean and unclogged I print a very small print every day. To ensure this when away for a few days I use QImage which has a utility to auto print a test print once a day. The QImage print can be reduced to to half of a 4"x5" print and uses a tiny amount of ink through all the nozzles. I also MUCH prefer to print using QImage which seems to yield better prints than through Photo Shop directly although Qimage can be run from within PS or externally. I am also an astrophotographer so print a lot of 16"x20" prints. That Pro 1000 yields prints that are spectacular. Most of my work from photowork but the printer is terrific with art reproduction. I love that I can switch from glossy or semi gloss to fine art paper and never have traces of the photo black polluting the matt black ink parts. That was a major issue with my Epsons.
Recommendation...... make sure you get the latest Firmware update so you can have access to new features such as the maximum pano width now which is around 44" as I recall. I am not sure but it seems the latest firmware also improved the ink handling so wastes less than before.

If you want to get all the ink out of your cartridges I recommend getting a digital weight scale.... mine was only around $25 and very accurate. You can remove and replace any cartridge so what I do i after the low ink warning comes on.....remove the tank and weigh it. I replace when it gets down to 45 grams. If it is above that you just put it back in the machine and it will show you the remaining ink left and not reset to a high number.

Love Nicks work, He made a video about Tintypes and glass plates which I can not find any more can anyone help? thanks

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Nick, did you take down the segment on the glass behind the glass with the plantation drink. I can’t find it anymore. I hope not. Stay strong my friend. Don’t let the pussy liberals rule your life.

Im a hobbiest photographer and was looking at budget printers for me to give family my prints. Dony know why I stumbled across this $2000 printing set up

awesome. how do you get it to print that long? outside the specs?

I knew this was going to be a good video when you came out wearing the white gloves.

You definitely should have a colour darkroom. The image quality is unmatched. It’s surreal seeing a large darkroom print from medium or large format

Good luck. Hope you enjoy printer clogs.

You're funny mate :) nice vid, subscribed

Haha I was about to say the one stage left is to develop your own film. I am happy for you but I feel sorry for your wife 😂

Though your binman must have a killer collection of images on his wall now haha.

I own the Epson SC-800 which is also a 17" printer and to minimize clogged heads run the nozzle check weekly. I'm guessing Canon has a similar utility. Also, I've been told that when not in use for more than a few days, Epson printers should be turned off but Canon printers left on.

So entertaining, great sense of humour mixed in with solid photography. Kudos ✊

👍🏾👏🏾📸Great work. Bruh, you a trip. I love your sense of humor. Phelix

I thoroughly enjoyed this video!

Fun to watch!

I've been wanting to upgrade from my Pro-100 to the Pro-1000 for several years. You may have just pushed me over the edge!

Hahahahaha, what an entertaining video! 😂 thanks so much, Nick!

How about if you put Phototop on it?

If you want 8” roll printers, check out DNP printers, they are WAY more economical, but the quality is just as fire

congratulations, now get a enlarger and a darkroom and stop pretending.