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Monochrome Printing
With three dedicated monochrome inks – Photo Black, Matte Black and Gray – the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II offers a new level of quality in professional monochrome printing. Reduced Metamerism
Conventional printers create light gray areas using a combination of CMYK inks. The reflective properties of these inks vary, causing the appearance of printed colours to vary under different light sources – an issue known as metamerism. The PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II produces gray colours with one dedicated gray ink. This stabilises reflective properties so that prints look superb under any light. By minimising the use of colour inks for monochrome output, the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II produces neutral tones with stabilised gray balance. Smooth Gradations
Grayscale-converted images from D-SLRs can contain thousands of individual grayscale tones. The PIXMA Pro Mark II series of can make use of 16 bits per channel printing . This extends the 256 levels of grey available from a standard GDI+ printer driver (8 bits) to over 65 thousand levels of grey (16 bits). Coupled with the PIXMA Pro9500 Mark II's dedicated gray ink, this allows you to reproduce a wider range of grayscale tones with smoother gradations and finer detail than was possible before. High Contrast
The high density Matte Black ink adds higher contrast when printing on fine art papers: images retain their original impact. Photo Black ink is similarly optimised for printing on high gloss and semi-gloss papers. Software Support
Monochrome output capabilities are complemented by the printer's software. Select a special “Grayscale mode” through the printer driver or Easy-PhotoPrintPro to perform simple monochrome conversions that take full advantage of the printer's ink system, and emulate a classic darkroom print. Advanced features include toning (cooltone, warmtone & custom toning) and pattern print function – where either brightness/contrast corrections or toning corrections can be previewed in a printed pattern. [1] When printing from Windows 7 or Vista using the XPS printer driver, or from Mac OS 10.5 upwards using the CUPS printer driver.
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