CANON imagePROGRAF PRO-300 Wireless A3 Photo Printer, Black

Author: martin j ingram

Rating: 5

Review: I've wasted hundreds of £'s in the last few years, having pictures printed by some of the best known picture printing and framing businesses online; I've calibrated my monitor, downloaded all the correct ICC profiles, softproofed my pictures in Lightroom, before submitting my picture to be printed and framed. More often than not, a week or so later, a box would arrive which I would open, only to experience that all-too-familiar sinking feeling when I saw that the picture I had received was either too dark, too bright, lacking resolution, or any number of other colour related issues. I'd pretty much given up on printing my pictures and resigned myself to the fact that maybe my photo's were really just for viewing on screen. Deciding to approach things differently, I decided to give this printer a go - it's not cheap, but I figured that if I could master the art of printing my pictures myself, I'd save a lot of money in the long run. Setting the printer up was super-easy. Once all the inks were installed and the printer had spent a few minutes preparing itself, I hopped into Lightroom and re-proofed a recent picture using the Canon Photo Paper Pro Platinum ICC profile (there were 5 sheets of this paper in the box as a sample). A couple of minutes later, my first picture had been printed and the quality is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING - I've only printed 3 pictures so far and I can't stop looking at them and smiling inside - the quality is way better than anything I've received from a photo lab in the post. I've now sent off for samples of other canon photo papers and will experiment a bit more with different A4 papers, before I decide which A3 paper to go for. Now I'm looking forward to having so many more of my pictures up on the wall and a reliable source of prints at my fingertips - I do love looking at my pictures on screen, but there really is something special about seeing your work on paper. I am primarily a wildlife photographer who has invested many £000's on my camera gear - the £700 I shelled out on this printer feels like the best 'photographic' investment I can remember making. I don't ever really bother with submitting reviews on Amazon, but I feel so happy with this purchase, I felt that I had to!

Author: E. Hadjioannou

Rating: 1

Review: It did connect with my computer desk top straight away!, but it would not print! From the first it kept giving me error messages! Clunking and clinking! I was asked to remove all orange tape which I did! I was not asked to remove an orange hard plastic block! Which after long communications with BSNLUK found that the orange block had to be removed! Great I got my first print, but the quality was very poor! It was rather grey and not sharp as I would expect! I got back in touch and said I was not happy with the printing and for me it was not fit for purpose! After long backward and forward communication with BSNLUK I finally got the okay to return, but they were to test and if it was okay I would have to have it returned back to me or lose half the cost! I was sure that it was faulty and that I would get an exchange or refund! To my surprise I was told that they did tests and found nothing wrong! I could not afford to lose nearly £400 pounds and took their word that there was nothing wrong and that I would now get good quality prints! Printer was returned without the plug this time so I could not test until they separately return the plug! Plug it in anticipation now to see how it will print? I was getting error messages, it would not connect to any of my devices. Tried with phone, laptop, iPad but nothing. I went though a long process of switching off printer turning on, switching iPad, iPhone laptop on and off turning the router on then on and nothing! It was not recognising with Wi-Fi any device! By this time I was pulling my hair out! The Wi-Fi icon on the screen had a red cross which meant it was not working! A friend was visiting and we went through the whole process and found that the printer needed the password of the network! Could not understand why as it did not need this the first time round! We put in the password and low and behold it connected! Great! Will now print! The text was terrible! It was so poor I got in touch with canon and Canon asked to do an advanced print cleaner programme, which I have carried out previously anyway! I tried to carry this process again just to see it through! I am now getting an error message and it can’t carry it out as it has run out of ink!!! This is enough to drive a person crazy!! This is the most difficult purchase I have ever had dealings with.