Canon PRO-300 Long panoramic prints 

Thanks!

Thanks! I've a huge (10+ foot long) canvas print of this image (on a custom stretcher) on the wall outside of my office, at the top of the stairs.

Thanks - glad it's of interest. Do check the articles as well, since I've only done videos for a year and the articles go back to 2003!

Thanks - glad it was of help for you. Custom sizes can be an issue.

Thanks for that!

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Thanks! If you've not seen it, do check the main [written] PRO-300 review www.northlight-images.co.uk/canon-pro-300-printer-review/ It has links to all related articles/videos for this printer.

Thanks - glad it's of interest

Thanks!

@@KeithCooper I waiting for my canon pro300, anything I should expect or be aware of?

Nothing in particular, but do read the actual [written] review - there is a lot more info than in the videos (it also gets updated as needed)

Unfortunately, there are only limited print sizes that will allow borderless printing - these are listed in the printer specs (at the foot of my review)

Yes - the max width is set by the printer mechanism, and the max length by software - for this printer it's 990.6mm

Glad it was of interest

See the list of all my PRO-300 stuff at www.northlight-images.co.uk/canon-pro-300-printer-review/ Profiles are just installed on your computer system, not the printer.

Thanks you so much

This was several ago. I believe it was from Fotospeed in the UK, or it could have been Epson gloss. Not many suppliers cover 13" roll media.

Thanks - glad it was of interest! I do actually do prints - drop me a line at Northlight Images? It's something I've printed at a variety of sizes - a big canvas is on the wall at the top of our stairs, since it's where I stayed with Karen during our honeymoon ;-)

Thanks IIRC - use the 'others' paper size on the printer

@@KeithCooper Thanks for that, will look into it

@@KeithCooper Hi Keith, on the video Canon Pixma PRO-200 printing panoramic images up to 1 metre long, you actually answer it at the 6min mark. So all good. Thanks for your help

@@KeithCooper Hi Keith, I have found some rolls of paper but they are Epson S041338 329mm Premium Semigloss Photo Paper Roll. Where do I find the ICC profile, is it from the paper supplier for the Canon Pro300 or from Canon for the Epson S041338 329mm Premium Semigloss Photo Paper Roll? Thanks for your help so far. Great videos and documentation by the way. Regards from Wayne (Australia)

Well, you won't ever find Epson profiles for one of their papers on a Canon printer... Look at the paper specs and find a similar one from Canon - then see if they do profiles for the 300 Check also my main [written] pro-300 review for profiles I created@@cherryw56

Been re-checking what I did (it was last summer) I've just noted that the paper I used was 10" (254mm) In making various custom sizes, 330x990 fails but 329 x 990 works It seems that the max width is set to the same as specified for A3+, so 329mm not 330 mm Does this help? - it seems 330 needs the rear manual feed

@@KeithCooper You are on spot on Keith! I have now tried a 329 width and it works and it also allows selection of paper type and top feed. I did manage to produce a 330 wide using back manual feed but could not choose correct paper. Again, thanks I will contiue to enjoy your videos which are very useful, regards Ian Crowson (I bought the Pro 300 after watching one of your videos and have found it really good)

You may find that the exact custom size needs tweaking - but it works easily enough. However, if this is new to you - practice with smaller custom sizes first - much less paper to waste when you get it wrong ;-)

@@KeithCooper okay Keith, btw hat kind of wrong usually occured when we set it not too precise? Will it damage the printer?

No, just wasting paper/ink - almost impossible to damage the printer this way

No, just make sure that I had the right printer ICC profile. This is an Image I've printed many times before, including a huge version on Canvas upstairs in the house. The secret is good colour management - I've lots of articles all about this. These videos are a very new feature for me and designed to support the written articles. A very good one to start with would be Better photography through printing your photos There are ~1200 articles on the Northlight site - I've been writing them since 2004 - the videos were started in Aug 2020 ;-) I am going through articles to see if I can make short video introductions for more of them, but I'm still mainly a photographer and writer ;-) Hope that's of some help?

@@KeithCooper Thanks for getting back to me . I visited the Northlitght website & book marked to revisit for sure. I think I know where the article will go & would have to agree. I'll try to get to it this week, Thanks. By the way, very nice image & what caught my attention was the detail in the mountains on the lower left of the photo.

Very little - this printer doesn't do the more advanced cleaning of the PRO-1000 for example. In this respect it's pretty much identical to the older PRO-10S - that's been around for a while, so there should be a lot more info to find? I only tend to get brand new printers for a relatively limited time, so my usage is not really typical and doesn't give me a chance to build up longer term ink usage data.

Not an issue I've seen at all with the 300 with any of the papers I tested. My personal opinion is perhaps that if someone produces and sells prints using a paper that is so easily marked, then their title of 'professional printer' might be at risk ;-) With any printer model you have to evaluate what papers work well and that's definitely not a good sign. I always suggest to start perfecting printing on some basic papers before trying more varied ones. That and to remember that sometimes a paper just doesn't work well, no matter how great some people might say it is ;-) BTW if you're doing long prints like in the video, take care over the paper feed at the start and end, since that when the feed can be affected by the size of the paper.

@@KeithCooper Thanks Keith, thats great advice. I've never done printing so this will be my first shot into it.

Hope it goes well - I've lots of articles on the Northlight site that go into a lot more detail than the videos, which might be of relevance...

Sorry, what do you mean by this? The printer is 13" width

@@KeithCooper is these printer can print borderles panoramic images exactly 13" * 39"?

@@QK23 No, borderless is only an option for preset paper sizes (A4 A3 etc.) for custom sizes you create a custom media size and print at that size. Borderless was not an option I saw - see the detail in the print setup in the video.

@@KeithCooper Is that possible using epson expression photo hd xp-15000?

@@QK23 No For borderless prints like this you need a roll paper printer

The max custom length for a page is specified at 990.6mm - why they couldn't make it a whole metre I just don't know

@@KeithCooper Thank you. Doesn't seem rational, does it?

@@KeithCooper I'll see if I can fond a conversion table to inches.

it's 39" - 1m is 39.4" No, using an imperial measurement for the spec is very unusual for a non-US only product. I'm old enough to be able to use both systems - I still make better guesstimates in inches than metric, but long stopped doing any calculations or construction in imperial.