Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-300 A3 Plus Colour Photo Wireless Printer - 10-Pigment Based Ink Technology - Borderless Printing - WiFi & Ethernet Connectivity - Professional Photo Print

Brilliant printer. Expensive, but if you want great photo quality over a range of paper types then this is it. I am an amateur photographer but I bought it because I was preparing images for an international print competition. This printer already comes with pre-programmed profiles for a wide range of papers and I was able to experiment in order to select the best paper for my images. Image quality is sharp. It uses a 10 colour ink system and I was surprised to find that the price of a full set of genuine Canon inks was not much more than that of a four colour pack for my old HP printer which is nowhere near the quality of the ImagePROGRAF and only prints to A4. The ink also seems to be lasting quite well. Installation was very simple from the Canon website. You do have to be prepared for it’s larger size and weight but this also means that it is much more sturdily built than cheaper printers. Note that I have given five stars for “touch screen” as the control system but it is actually a scroll though menu system. Five stars still because it is very easy to use.

After reading many reviews I decided to get this for home use as I really like to be able to print my own photos.It is NOT a cheap printer, but can print close to 1 metre long panoramas by 330mm wide.It is heavy (15kg).Ink costs are seriously higher than a small A4 lightweight printer.Don't consider this printer if you are not prepared to put in the effort required to get good prints.Read/watch many reports first.But I love it!Having said that, it IS brilliant!

This is a really good printer. The quality of the photographs it produces are excellent. The inks are pigment-based, and when combined with the right papers, they will last for a very long time (200 years).You should calibrate your monitor and only use genuine Canon inks for the best results.I am very pleased - love it!

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.

I needed a printer to take my artwork to the next level and it was a minefield researching all the options, which is why I came on here to help fellow artists not make the same mistake I did; my head was turned by an all-in-one because I wanted a scanner aswell as a good printer, so I opted for one that comes well recommended in reviews. What a disappointment! The dye ink just didn’t give the durability needed for art prints and the pictures were fuzzy and dull (my work, on the whole is very vibrant and saturated). It also bleeds when wet, which is no good at all if you’re crafting and need to use PVA. I returned that model and decided to go for this Canon which uses pigment inks, they are more expensive to replace but they are worth the money. Some reviews will tell you that dye inks are more vibrant and quite durable, but you can see from my photo that is not the case - the larger print on the left was done with the Canon and the smaller one on the right with the Epson that I sent back. They were printed on heavy matte fine art inkjet paper. In real life the difference is even more remarkable, I am astounded by the quality this Canon produces. I’ve only had it for a few hours so still playing around with test prints, but I am so happy with it I had to break off to write this review. Every print so far looks just like the original canvas, the textures are so lifelike you have to touch them to check it really is a flat piece of paper! I’ve had to save up long and hard to buy this printer, and I’m going to have to do the same and wait to afford a separate scanner, but I don’t regret my decision, the Canon is a game changer and worth every penny.

Really good print quality but the cartridges are expensive and only 18mils.