Canon - PIXMA PRO-100

Is your husband really deep into photography? If so, scrounge FB marketplace for a working used Canon Pro 100. I bought one basically brand new in box with 2 sets of ink for around $200. One of the best things I could’ve purchased because seeing your work printed out is so nice in this digital era. You can print small 4x6s with cheap photo paper or fine art prints up to 13x19.

Buy a used Canon pixma pro 100 or 9000. Yes they use cartridges but you can refill them relatively easily. More inconvenient than a new epson 6 color but Will fit your budget and have just as good if not better quality.

Operating costs on the Pro-100 are definitely higher. Learned that the hard way.

I have four printers in my home printing lab.  Epson Sure Color P900 - this is my workhorse printer for black-and-white and some color, depending on the tonal range and the paper.  Canon Pixma Pro 100 - much cheaper ink, but I am less happy with the black-and-white results, though I think it does extremely well with images that are predominantly, red or green.  Epson XP7100 - my day to day home office printer that does extremely high-quality 4 x 6 glossy prints with minimal fuss.  Epson Stylus Pro 3880 - much more expensive to run on Epson inks than the P900, but much more flexible in terms of utilizing third-party in including a wide gamut set of dedicated gray scale ink.  I do my own exhibition printing and have access to a 48 inch wide format Eason roll printer.  I share all of us because this is doable, if you are serious about high-quality printing and want the precise control over what paper and output you achieve, but be prepared for a significant financial investment in ink and paper.  I also have the benefit of being taught digital printing by a highly accomplished photographer who, like me, was a skilled dark printer before moving to digital. He also just happens to have work in multiple famous museums and collections, so his printing skills are indisputable. But even with that knowledge, sometimes it takes me two or three prints to completely dial in an image. 

I have a pixma pro 100 that I bought like a decade ago and still use it to print black and whites on that same paper you're talking about, they look amazing.

I've got a Canon PIXMA Pro 100 that I've been using for over a decade. It puts anything from Shutterfly to absolute shame. I get all of my printing paper from Red River, which also makes a big difference when comparing to the online print places.

Pixma PRO-100 have 8 cartridge... not bad

I own one and its fine. Is anyone else like me? Do you also hate pretty much every printer you've ever touched? I own a Pro-100 and it puts out great images when it wants to. Some stuff it will do wirelessly, others only with a cord, like if you want to actually print borderless 13x19 prints. I paid like $500 for mine so you got a good deal if you can stomach the damn thing. Pro tip: I've found the 3rd party ink to be just as good as the OEM stuff. Even the dirt cheap cartridges. Just search for the ink model number, CLI-42. I've seen sets as [low as $32 for a set of all 8 colors.](https://www.inkjets.com/products/canon-cli-42-8-pack?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc_shopping&utm_term=&utm_campaign=17969009689&utm_content=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17347137533&gbraid=0AAAAADljlrIFVFngRBZlVWN69HkP9i0QP&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_rPGBhCbARIsABjq9ceuaFRLihpOUv9BorEwYd_UBwyekg_6ZiHaR0tr7NV85IMj1S7fr80aAlOJEALw_wcB)

(Fyi full pack of Pro-100 ink runs $115 and gets easily the most mileage out of any other fine art printer I’ve used - and there’ve been times when these printers have made me my living. Pixma Pro-100 supremacy is very real.)

I got a used pixma pro 100 for $250. It was worth $1000 back when it was on the market 15 years ago but its still stunning. The issue is that the ink is crazy at $17 per cartridge, and there's 8 cartridges. I ended up buying precision colors 3rd party ink for $130 and it will last me for a while. I see a lot of diy sticker and print makers online use an ecotank or another kind of inkjet tank printer instead. The quality will be decent and the ink is a lot cheaper since it doesn't use cartridges.