<p>The Canon Pixma Pro-10 is the mid-priced model in Canon's outstanding range of professional A3+ inkjet photo and fine art printers. It takes ten ink cartridges with separate matt and photo black pigments, the usual cyan, magenta and yellow, paler photo cyan and photo magenta cartridges, red and grey inks as well as a chroma optimiser cartridge. This last cartridge coats your photos in a clear protective layer, which negates the tendency of pigmented inks to reflect light oddly and gives your photos a smooth, glossy finish by filling in the microscopic gaps between droplets of ink.</p><p>The addition of a grey ink tank means the Pro-10 is fairly well equipped when it comes to printing high-quality black and white photos, although it lacks the more expensive Canon Pro-1 and Epson Stylus Photo R3000's extra pale grey tanks, which makes those printers the first choice for black and white photographers who have the money to spend.</p><p>The printer uses colour profiles to ensure the best possible results on different paper types, and we were impressed by its natural rendering of subtle colour variations. You can also fine-tune these ICC profiles to produce images that look exactly the way you want them. In common with most other professional and semi-professional pigment printers, the Pro-10's prints lack the hyper-vivid oversaturation that's common to many consumer photo printers, but this can result in photos that look a little dull unless you take advantage of tweakable print profiles or post-produce your photos in an appropriate manner. However, even at default settings, we loved the fine detail and broad colour range of our prints.</p><p>Print speeds are a bit slower than the printers' more expensive sibling, the Canon Pro-1, and quite a lot slower than the similarly-priced Epson Stylus Photo R2000. An A3 print emerged in ten minutes and 35 seconds, while six 6x4in prints took ten minutes and five seconds and two 10x8in photos took 15 minutes and 10 seconds.</p><p><a href="http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/printers/1300606/canon-pixma-pro-10">Keep reading...</a></p>