The Canon Pixma Pro-100 is the entry-level model in Canon's Pro range of A3+ printers, aimed at semi-professional and professional photographers and printers. It uses the same ChromaLife 100 inks as many of Canon's smaller A4 inkjet printers and MFPs, which have always done well in our photo quality...

I am very happy with the Canon Pro 100. I've own HP Photosmart printers in the past and this one beats all of them for quality of the picture matching what I shoot with my DSLR.

Excellent quality prints and an affordable price are what makes the Canon Pixma Pro-100 a terrific photo printer.

Print size up to 13x19; Excellent output quality; Black inks generate excellent monochrome prints

Large and heavy; Slower print times

With smartphone photography, an ordinary consumer photo printer will do a decent job printing out selfies or photos from Facebook, in 4 x 6. But if you’re using a more advanced camera, like a DSLR with a bag full of lenses, the typical home photo printer won’t do you justice if you want to take advantage of all that high resolution. The Canon Pixma Pro-100 ($499) is a serious photo printer for those serious about their photography. It probably won’t give you the same quality as one of the prosumer photo printers in the $1,000 price range, but someone would have to look very closely to see any difference. And, the price will appeal to pro photographers on a budget or home users looking to add some oomph to their printed images. Keep in mind that the Pro-100 is a specialized printer designed to turn out great looking photos from high-resolution files. It’s not for churning out pages and pages of homework. The printer has very few noticeable controls on its attractive (well, we think so) ...

Print size up to 13x19; Excellent output quality; Black inks generate excellent monochrome prints;

Large and heavy; Slower print times;

Quick, vivid prints. The Canon Pixma Pro-100's dye-based inks should last "decades when framed, or over 100 years in an album," TechRadar.com says. Pros generally prefer pigment inks for their longer lifespan and subtler skin tones, but for vivid, colorful photos (flowers, sunsets), dye prints...

Very good photos up to 13 by 19 inches; Eight ink cartridges; including three monochrome inks; Fast; reliable printing; Dye-based inks can be more vibrant than pigment inks

Small ink cartridges aren't for high-volume printing; Dye-based inks fade faster than pigment-based inks

This 13x19-inch wide-carriage model uses eight inks for vibrant colors and deep blacks. Just know that, if fade resistance is a key concern, this is a dye, not pigment, printer.

Superb photo quality; Support for oversize stock; Dye inks for vibrant colors and deep blacks; Gray ink enhances shadow detail and monochrome images; Support for wireless connectivity and disc printing

Dye-based inks are less fade-resistant than pigment ones; No LCD

Following his test of the pigmented-ink PRO-10 in the last issue, Trevern Dawes turns his attention to its dye-based cousin, the Pixma PRO-100 which replaces the popular Pro9000 Mark II.

I just got this a few days ago and it does all I ask of it . I go through printers like water and this one is built like a tank. I can only see good things from this. Set up was tough I am a mac user and it did not like most of the software.

Any doubts that the Canon Pixma Pro-100 is a heavyweight piece of kit will be dispelled the moment you (attempt to) take this A3+ printer out of the box. It's astonishingly hefty – so much so that the first thing we did was lift the lid to see where Canon had hidden the bricks.

The key to the PIXMA PRO-100's high performance is the Optimum Image Generating System. Canon has developed this technology to analyze each and every photograph through a range of factors like grain, tone gradation, black density and color hue to reproduce the truest image based on the photographic...