Canon image. PROGRAF PRO 2. There is a separate article covering Installation and setup of the PRO 2. This looks at all the things you need to do to get the printer ready for printing. It incudes networking details and software installation. Canon Live View Software Microscope Pictures' title='Canon Live View Software Microscope Pictures' />Updates Sep. If you use some Canon software especially printer drivers and Macs, think carfully about updating to Mac. OS 1. 0. 1. 2 Sierra for the time being. Canon have published info about software incompatibilities. Oct 2. 01. 6 firmware update. Dec 2. 01. 6 Ink agitation info. Feb 2. 01. 7 Shipping the printer back. QP3/Micro/QuickPHOTO_MICRO_microscopy_imaging_software_phases.png' alt='Canon Live View Software Microscope Pictures' title='Canon Live View Software Microscope Pictures' />Frequently asked questions from Joe Kunkels Homepage,Biology Department, University of Mass. InformationWeek. com News, analysis and research for business technology professionals, plus peertopeer knowledge sharing. Engage with our community. Buying a PRO 2. 00. B H  Amazon. Adorama. Canon PRO 2. The PRO 2. Whereas the previous i. PF6. 10. 0, i. PF6. PF 6. 40. 0 showed a steady evolution in design, the PRO series of printers looks distinctly different links are to my reviews of previous models. The printer is bigger and heavier than previous models and has a much higher ink capacity those two boxes at the rear hold 1. The inks have been reformulated offering deeper blacks on photo media and have swapped the green ink of the previous models for a clear gloss coat or Colour Optimiser CO ink. One loss from the earlier models is a top loading sheet media slot. Sheet media now needs loading manually at the front, in the same way that the 4. PF8. 30. 0 I have here. All printers now can accept a 2nd roll unit, which can be switched between roll feed or roll take up. This is standard on the PRO 6. PRO 2. 00. 0 and PRO 4. You can see it being used in take up mode above. Ive recently reviewed the 1. PRO 1. 00. 0 printer which can be thought of as a smaller sheet only version of the PRO 2. All my print quality observations in that long review are applicable to the PRO 2. The basic features from Canon Full Specs at foot of articleUsing LUCIA PRO 1. A new 1. 2. 8 wide print head enables faster printing. Optional dual roll unit supports continuous paper feed or automatic take up of the printed output. Ergonomic design with a flat top surface for print checking and 3. LCD touch screen operation panel. Direct printing for PDF and JPEG file formats from USB memory stick. Wi Fi and wired connectivity. Guaranteed colour consistency between jobs and different production sites. High capacity hot swap ink tanks for uninterrupted printing. The Print Studio Pro plug in lets you print from software such as Lightroom, Photoshop and Canons Digital Photo Professional. Ill cover these features and more in the review. All testing here is with Apple Macs OSX 1. PC use is functionally similar. What do you get with the PRO 2. The printer is a hefty bit of kit and is likely to be delivered assembled like below, or in parts on a palette. Ive written up a separate article covering all the assembly and start up details, including loading up the 1. Feb 2. 01. 7  Ive written up notes about preparing the PRO 2. Some important things Id note for the potential buyer are the size of the machine, and the need for several people to install it. Once loaded with ink, the printer cannot be tilted to any significant degree, so ours was assembled by the supplier, but not set up in any way. This allowed the printer to be removed from the stand and taken through to the back of the house. Connectivity and software setup. The printer incorporates both USB and Ethernet wired connections. Ive connected this one up with an Ethernet connection at the rear. Wireless works as both part of an existing network, or you can establish an ad hoc network for connecting phonestablets. Hi Speed USB 2. 0. Base T Ethernet. Wi. Fi bgnDetails about network setup and configuration are in the assembly and start up details. The printer is easily controlled via the colour touch screen, which lets you scroll through menu screens with a simple swipe of the screen. The orange light above the screen is a warning light in this case its because some of the inks are low. Good, but for the fact the inks showed as low right after initial setup with the supplied 1. Ill come back to ink usage later, but Id just note that a warning light that is always on quickly loses its ability to grab your attention. Many of the screen functions are available via the printers internal web server. The ink levels shown are immediately after setup, where you can see that two inks are showing as low. There are many settings that you can change, but Id always suggest that if you dont know what a setting does, its a good clue that you might leave off any changes until you appreciate what it does. The printer utility option are similar to those offered via the printer driver configuration. A few feature of the driver setup Mac shown here should be noted. If youve the roll unit fitted, select it here, so that the option to use it will appear in your printer dialogues. Another place to check ink levels. The printer utility, which can also be launched directly, lets you access cleaning and other functions. The standard nozzle check print can be produced from here, although if the printer is in another room, you might want to initiate a test print once youre sure what paper is loaded nozzle checks dont look better on expensive paper. Microsoft Project Actual Work Column. The printer does a lot of minor behind the scenes checking and testing to ensure that you dont see any failed nozzles here. I should note that the Canon approach is to have lots of spare nozzles in the print head which are mapped out if they fail. This means youre unlikely to see any failed nozzle checks until the print head needs replacing. The new printers have one single print head unit for all colours, as opposed to the two in previous large printers. The printer is as yet too new a product to give any meaningful predictions about print head life, other than to remind you that all large format printers any make dislike long periods of disuse and that a printer used every few days is quite likely to be more reliable than one that is often left unused for weeks. Calibration and feed adjustment. The print head assembly has sensors built in to it that let the printer perform calibration checks. This ensures that your printer is working at a known standard of performance. It is NOT the same as ICC paper profiling and the printer cannot do this. Ive mentioned calibration in detail in the setup article, but do so again here since its an important step in ensuring optimal printer performance. It needs doing after initial setup and certainly if you replace the print head. Id also suggest doing it after youve had the printer for a few months and then at least annually. Some users in the pre press and proofing business will need to do things like this more often, but Im directing my comments mostly at photographers just wanting to make great looking big prints. The quickest way to launch many such functions is with the Quick Utility Toolbox software. Theres the front panel and printer web page too. Paper Loading and Media handling. The printer is primarily aimed at roll paper users. That doesnt mean that it doesnt work well with sheet paper, just that compared to the 1. PRO 1. 00. 0 it feels a little more cumbersome to use. Then again, you cant print a 3. PRO 1. 00. 0. Youll notice a cloth print catcher unit on the front of the printer. This can be reconfigured in a number of ways for different usage scenarios. The printer Im looking at here is a Canon test unit, and the design is slightly different to the shipping printers.