The Canon CLI-42 cartridges for the Pro-100 are 13 ml each, and Amazon UK is selling the eight-pack for £86, so £0.83/ml.ĭisclaimer / limitations of my knowledge: we have a Pro-100 at work, so I've printed on that. Amazon UK is selling them for about £13 each, so £1.18/ml.
I cannot readily determine how much the iP8750's corresponding Canon CLI-551XL cartridges hold, but the U.S. In any case, the presumed most economical option, the 378XL / 478XL multipack gives you 60.5 ml of ink, with an Epson store price (not at Amazon UK directly) of £113, so £1.87/ml. at least, Epson appears to have taken the odd step of having different ink colors come in different cartridge capacities at, it shows regular-capacity cartridges as 4.1 ml (cyan, magenta, and yellow) or 5.5 ml (black) and extra-large-capacity cartridges as 9.3 ml (cyan, magenta, and yellow), 10.2 ml (red), and 11.2 ml (black and gray, or grey to those of you who print in colour).* I suppose the idea is to make capacities proportional to average use, so for the average user printing average prints, the cartridges all get consumed at the same rate. prices, the Pro-100 would be slightly cheaper on ink.Įven aside from offering regular and "XL" ink cartridges, in the U.K. Of course the Pro-100 uses eight inks, four of which are light varieties, so I'd expect its consumption to be somewhat more-but its ink is cheaper, see below. So I think the most logical basis for estimating ink costs is money per volume, pounds per millilitre in your case.
Also, the data below suggest to me that the Pro-100 may work out somewhat cheaper to run, from an ink standpoint.Īs of just now, the XP-15000 is £300 at Jessop's and £287 at Amazon UK the Canon iP8750 is £200 at Jessop's and £199 at Amazon UK and the Canon Pro-100 is £359 at Jessop's and starting at £376 on Amazon UK.Īs far as ink costs go, IMO it is both logical and slightly supported by some evidence that all else being equal, a six-color printer like the XP-15000 would use a bit more ink than a five-color printer like the iP8750, but the basis for that belief is weaker where both contain an equal number of 'light' colors (one, gray = light black). The Pro-100 is more robustly-built than either of the others, but it is also larger, if space / fit is much of an issue. However, because the XP-15000 is so new, probably fewer ICC profiles for different papers are available now. All of these printers use dye inks, so I doubt there would be much difference among them for performance on various paper types. Presumably by this same measure the XP-15000 would have a slight edge over the iP8750. It gives you eight colors of ink instead of five or six, which should tend to give you both a somewhat larger gamut and somewhat smoother tonality. IMOPO, stretch your printer-purchase budget just £72 past the XP-15000 and get a Canon Pro-100S. The XP-15000 is quite new, having only been announced barely two months ago, so expect reports to be few and far between. Ease of use, in particular colour management (I print from Lightroom and set the colour profile from there).The print quality (on both lustre type paper and "parchment" type art paper).As a replaceme t I am happy to stick to modern dye technology, but want to print to A3 and am aware of the steep cost of genuine ink.ĭoes anyone know of a comparison between the two?
I use Permajet paper and only use Epson genuine inks (bad experience long time ago with 3rd party inks). My printer is aging and I regularly use it to print up to A3 for camera club competitions, and am currently using it to prepare my RPS L panel.
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