"Margin 35" on Canon Pro 9000/9500

There are lots of questions about the phenomenon known as "Margin 35" on Canon Pro 9000 and Pro 9500 printers. Basically, when you choose any of the fine art media settings on these printers, the margins are locked at specific minimums. The important part is that the leading and trailing edge margins are set in stone at 35mm (1.37"). The logical reason for this setting is that Canon is worried about head strikes on thick media which can curl upward a bit under ink load.

The discussions online have focused on workarounds to fix the problem. The only real useful solution we can find is to use the Matte Paper media setting with fine art papers as it does not have margin restrictions.

Red River Paper uses this setting for profile production with Aurora Fine Art. If you are using another fine art paper, it may make sense to have a custom profile made using the Matte Paper setting.

New Canon Profiles Posted

The Polar Matte profile for the Canon Prograf iPF5000 is now up.

For the Canon Pro9000, profiles for Aurora Fine Art White and Natural, as well as Dourian Art have been posted.

New Canon iPF5000 Color Profiles Posted

A few more Canon iPF5000 color profiles have been posted.

Premium Matte
GC Matte
Denali SemiGloss
Denali Gloss
Polar Arctic Satin
Polar Arctic Gloss

Coming soon Polar Matte

Color Profiles - Canon Pro9000 posted / Epson 3800 in production

Most of the color profiles for the Canon Pro9000 are now up. Art paper profiles will follow early next month.

Epson 3800 profiles are in production at this time. We hope to have them posted in early Jan.

Canon Pro9000 profiles are here