Canon Pixma Pro-200

£455/$599 An improved dye-based printer

Canon’s Pixma Pro-100S has long been our favourite A3+/13-inch pro-grade printer for creating photo prints on glossy paper. Running on eight dye-based inks, including black, grey and light grey, it delivered sumptuously smooth glossy prints with immaculate colour rendition and very good tonal expression for blackand-white photographic images.

A new and improved range of inks aims for greater colour space, superior vibrancy and deeper reds, blues and blacks. There’s also a new three-inch colour LCD screen and compatibility with Canon’s excellent Professional Print & Layout software, as well as wide-ranging fine-art media from the likes of Canson and Hahnemühle.

Performance

Print speeds are very quick and, as is often the case these days, the difference in print quality between standard and highest quality modes can look fairly negligible. Even in standard mode, the Pro-200 delivers fabulous photo print quality.

Print speed

It’s a very fast printer in all quality modes, and prints are pretty much touch-dry on output.

Ink cost

Dye-based inks are often cheaper to produce, but running costs are a little higher than for the Pro-300.

Tech focus

Print size: A3+/13-inch Resolution: 4,800 x 2,400dpi Inks: Dye cyan, photo cyan, magenta, photo magenta, yellow, black, grey, light grey Interface: USB 2.0, Ethernet, Wi-Fi

Digital Camera verdict

The Pixma Pro-200 is simply the best in the group for printing on glossy photo paper, and represents a sizeable upgrade over the older Pro-100S model.