How many prints can you expect to get out of the Pixma Pro-10?

[pafoto]

It'd be really helpful to know for full colour and for B&W - full ink cartridges. Appreciate your help.

 

[Howard Moftich]

this should have the numbers you want............

Cost of Inkjet Printing Canon PRO-10

Real world cost of inkjet printing for Canon PRO-10

www.redrivercatalog.com

 

[Mark McCormick]

this should have the numbers you want............

http://www.redrivercatalog.com/cost-of-inkjet-printing-canon-pro-10.html

If the Pro-10 is anything like my Pro-1, your mileage will vary insanely by freqency of use and number of prints made in each session of use. Red Rivers' numbers are based on continuous non stop printing, and thus do not reflect how much ink is actually going into the waste tank under more normal usage scenarios. For my Pro-1, if I don't print something every two days, it will initiate a preemptive cleaning cycle before making the first print, and this cycle consumes several ml of ink. If the Pro-1 is left for over a week, that cleaning cycle gets more aggressive and consumes even more ink. The printer uses simple clock timer rules to figure out when and how aggressive a preemptive cleaning cycle it will run. The service manual also indicates that 45 days of non use will initiate a major cleaning cycle. I checked that consumption by weighing cartridges before and after this major cleaning took place, and it was a whopping 48 ml of ink down the waste tank! And you can turn off your Canon Pro-1 or Pro-10, but don't unplug it from the wall, or it will lose it's clock setting and thus initiate the super heavy cleaning cycle even if it hasn't been 45 days.

So, your ink consumption question is nearly impossible to answer correctly without a lot of knowledge about your intended usage, ie., it heavily depends on your frequency of use and the number of prints you make in each printing session. The more often you use the printer and the more prints you make every time you use it will help greatly to put more ink on paper and less ink down the waste tank. Almost daily use is the only way to keep the cost per print more in line with Red River's findings. The Canon Pro-100, however, being dye-based inks rather than pigments doesn't suffer from these preemptive cleaning cycles like the Pro-1 and Pro-10 use in order to keep themselves clog-free. The Pro-100's numbers will be much more in line with the Red River findings even for those who don't print very often.

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Mark McCormick

http://www.aardenburg-imaging.com