Canon Pixma Pro-10S

£535/$700 Better than most pigment printers on glossy paper

The Pro-10S looks virtually identical to the Pro-100S, but ditches its sibling’s eight dye-based ink cartridges in favour of nine pigment inks plus a ‘chroma optimizer’, which aims to give a smooth finish on glossy paper.

Unlike in the Epson SC P600, the Canon printer has individual channels in the print head for both photo and matte black inks, so there are no issues of wasting time and ink when swapping between media types.

Performance

Excellent output quality combines superb accuracy for colour prints and fabulous definition for black-and-white photo prints, without any unwanted colour casts.

Results are wonderfully non-reflective on matte photo paper and other specialist media, while printing on glossy paper looks smoother than with any other pigment-based printer that we’ve ever used.

Nine ink cartridges are supplemented with a chroma optimizer for smooth glossy output. The front manual feeder can accept specialist media of up to 350g/m2.

The Pro-10S runs on pigment-based inks.