Back in the day when it was released, the Canon S9000 color printer was an amazing large format printing device. The Canon BubbleJet S9000 was introduced to the market at the start of the year 2002. This was a time when it was hard to get a good device for photo printing unless you were a professional and prepared to spend a large amount of money. Because more users were interested in a device that supported larger media, Canon built this printer to offer A3 printing.



It produces high quality photo prints at a faster speed that most of its rivals. The drying of the ink is also significantly better due to a finer spraying of ink.



As for design, the S9000 is rather stylish, features a gray and silver casing and should fit quite well on any size of desk. Setting this printer up is as easy as it gets and you’ll even get a big instruction manual to make it even easier. The Canon S9000 color printer comes with six ink tanks that you’ll have to unwrap and stick into the print head cartridge. Then you’ll install the cartridge in the actual printer, connect the USB cable to the back of the printer as well as the PC and install the software. Within one-two minutes your printer will be installed and ready to work. Another good point of the S9000 is that it is a pretty quiet printer.

The main strength of this printer is printing speed. Compared to models released and available on the market in the same period of time, it’s extremely fast. It can in some cases print A3 quicker than its competitors print in A4. Printing quality is very impressive and well worth the money you are paying for it. As mentioned before the printer uses six-color ink and will achieve maximum resolutions of 2400 x 1200 dpi. The print head has 3,072 nozzles and is part of Canon’s Advanced MicroFine Droplet technology. It offers a lot of versatility when it comes to media size and can print on 4 by 6 up to 13 by 19 inch paper. With a 100 sheet paper feeder, you won’t run out of paper very fast, especially if you’re keeping this device for photo printing (which is what it’s best at). Media types include glossy paper, photo paper, high-gloss photo paper, transparencies, envelopes and more.



As an extra convenience the printer ships with a complete bundle of software that includes PhotoRecord, Image Browser or ZoomBrowser (depending on if you’re using Mac or PC0 and PhotoStitch. Software helps a lot for editing your images and will make the end result look more vivid and bright. The separate cartridges allow easy replacement and since you won’t have to replace them all at the same time you’ll end up saving some money. So if the printer’s price tag seems affordable to you, there isn’t really a good reason to avoid this printer. There are a lot of good parts to it and it’s high printing speeds will keep most users satisfied.