Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-300 Wireless Color Wide-Format Printer, Prints up to 13"X 19", 3.0" LCD Screen with Profession Print & Layout Software and Mobile Device Printing, Black, One Size

Over the past 20 years I've gone through two Epson 13" photo printers: a R3000 and a SC P600. Both died due to ink clogs. Not wanting this to happen again, my research led me to the Canon Pro-300. It has a much shorter ink path from cartridge to print head than Epson, and the print head is easily removable. Hopefully this will result in less clogging for an infrequently used printer.Compared to my old Epson SC P600, the Pro-300 is smaller, lighter, easier to feed thicker fine art paper, allows creating custom paper names for 3rd party papers, and has separate printheads for photo and matte blank ink, avoiding having to switch inks. I know the Epson SC P700 has many of these features, but I've had it with Epson.So far I've printed on Canon glossy photo paper, as well as Hahnemühle Photo Rag, Photo Rag Baryta, and Photo Silk Baryta. Prints were all beautiful! The Hahnemühle-supplied ICC profiles and AM1X (used to configure paper in Media Configuration Tool) files work well.The Media Configuration Tool used to manage 3rd party papers is extremely clunky to use. It force-updates the printer and prompts to update the driver with every change you make. I would much prefer it made no changes until given a "save" command. But fortunately, you won't have to use it very often. Once a 3rd party paper is configured, you can use it from both the printer's LCD display as well as from your computer as if it was a first party Canon paper.I really like the Canon Professional Print & Layout Software. It has plug-ins for both Lightroom and Photoshop, and I find it much easier and more intuitive to use than Lightroom's Print module.Setup of the printer is time-consuming (took me about an hour) but straightforward. The LCD display shows you pictorially what has to be done at each step.The PRO-300 is a great printer and I recommend it!

After careful reviews of Canon Printer, I settled on the Pro 300. A step above the 200 without the shock price of the 1000 ( there is now the 1100). I chose because of the high quality of Canon Inks and that it offered fairly rich darks. Now that I have had it for over a year I thought a review was in order. I am very happy with this printer for my photography. I included one picture with this review (the rest were too large since I save in .tiff format). Though not an ink hog, it does make liberal use of the available colors and I have had to replace the Gray and Photo Black. I chose to set up auto replenishment with Canon so replacement cartridges are sent automatically. If you are looking for a printer for your photography needs that will give you the vibrant colors and exquisite dark you long for, this is the one for you. Set up is easy (I use wireless) and it works seamlessly with my Mac mini M1. You won't regret it.

I've only had this printer a few days, and I've only printed a few items, but I'm very happy with it so far. It's quiet and it prints precisely. Setup went okay, with only minor struggles, even for this very technologically challenged person! 😃The ink has hardly gone down. I was surprised because from others' reviews, I thought the initial setup would drain it nearly 50%. So this was a nice surprise.It prints very slowly, but that's not a huge issue right now. And anyway, it prints so well I can forgive that little inconvenience.I hope to come back and update my review in a few months or so, when I've had more time to try it out.

So far, the Canon Pro-300 has surpassed any expectations I might have had. It’s been conservative with ink. I have replaced cartridges for black and gray but I’ve printed a few B&W pieces and expected that. The color representation is stunning. Printing on high gloss photo paper doesn’t hurt. It’s my first Canon printer and it was over my budget, but I get prints I like without paying a professional printer for copies I often don’t like. The savings will come. I’ve printed a few 12x17 inch pics with it and that was equally great. I haven’t printed on any CD’s yet but still having fun with printing artwork. Ink is at this writing around $120.00 vote all ten cartridges. Two cartridges of ink for my cheaper HP printer costs the same. That printer is ok but geez, the ink has always been expensive. So, yes. I recommend this printer. If you can afford it, buy it. If you’re like me you’ll probably make a few mistakes so you might want to print some practice pics on cheaper paper. It’s a great printer.

Giving this a 1 because Canon's tech support is from the Stone Age and I haven't been able to get around their MyCanon BS.This printer will make a noise at 80% of the page, and then the page will slip. It will sound like crunching. The bottom of the page is destroyed every time. For 3 months I have been printing and avoiding the lower 20% of the page. I tried to contact Canon, their forums say this is a hardware issue and to call them. Calling them asks for the MyCanon ID. I signed up for it twice. It wants a different ID. The phone call hangs up on me after 45 minutes.So I did this multiple times, wasting valuable work hours, just trying to navigate a bad phone system, a horrible forum, etc. They will not help you unless you are registered to ten different services, they won't even take your call. I don't have the time to deal with it. The print quality is great for the top 80% of the page but I will never buy another Canon. I should be able to call, provide a SN for my product, and get help, without being registered for multiple Canon services.They try to push the app on you, it's all bloatware BS. This product does not work correctly and I don't have hours to sit on the phone to prove I own the product only to get hung up on. No thank you Canon. You used to be a good company when you made cameras, but I bet nowadays you need to download multiple apps and sign up for multiple spammy services to take a picture. Horrible way to run a company.Now I cannot sign up for MyCanon or even get into it.