The thought of Canon printers usually reminds me of when I used one of their Bubblejet things, the ones where the ink would run off the envelope if you took a printed letter out in the rain. Horrible things they were. But times have changed. Canon is now taking on the might of Epson in the printing stakes.

Luminous Landscape has an excellent review of the Canon ImagePROGRAF iPF5000 Printer: ‘This is a 12 ink, pigment-based, 17″ carriage photographic printer capable of printing in 16 bit mode. It is physically large, moderately priced (for what it does), and, as will be seen, surpasses just about every other fine-art inkjet printer yet available, in terms of both image quality and convenience of features. …With the iPF5000 they have taken aim squarely at the Epson 4800, accurately targeting all of that printer’s flaws, and in some ways surpassing its well recognized first-rate image quality.’

If you’re printing fine art, water soluble pigments are definitely persona non grata.