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I'm having a lot of trouble with this printer. Most of my work is printing portraits of children. I've found that the Canon Pixma Pro-100 has problems with highlights that are even the slightest bit over exposed. The printer can't handle the smooth transition from flesh color to white. Instead, I get a magenta halo around the white zone. My very old Canon i9900 never had this problem. The Pixma also seems to give pink flesh tones an unattractive jaundiced hue. I also had problems with the on-screen manual. There was an error that caused the printer to flash an orange warning light 10 times. When I tried looking up what this meant the manual jumped from 9 to 11 flashes without mentioned what 10 flashes meant. Also, when I try to do a manual print head alignment and follow the manual's instructions, nothing happens. No adjustment options are provided. Finally, the images seem to print out soft. This is the opposite of the i9900, which printed images sharper than what was on screen. I'm seriously considering returning it. UPDATE: After printing fifty 8 x 10 prints I've found the following: 1. Image sharpness is still a little soft. I have to over sharpen then deal with sharpening halos. 2. Printing is very quiet, but the printer is almost constantly grinding away between, before and after printing. It sounds like the printer is locked into constant cleaning cycles. It stops for a couple of minutes from time to time then starts up again. I'm concerned all this cleaning, if that's what it is, is going to eat up a lot of ink. 3. After fifty 8 x 10 portraits of caucasian faces against a dark blue background, the first ink to run out was gray. The next lowest ink was photomagenta. The rest are only half empty so it doesn't seen to use too much ink. 4. Prints come out darker, redder and yellower than what appears on my monitor. I found resetting the defaults to be very difficult, but then I'm not a printer expert. In the end I found that in Photoshop +20 brightness, -20 red and -20 yellow produces a picture that looks like the monitor image before these changes are applied. 5. I printed two copies of the same image, one right after the other and the second one came out noticeably darker. 6. In spite of all these problems I've decided to keep the printer. I'm getting acceptable results and the fact is that every printer is going to have its issues. I could pay a lot more and still have problems. Modern printers are not plug-and-play devices if you want to get good results. Unfortunately to do so you have to be willing to put in many hours of study and work. After a year with this printer I have come to the conclusion I hate it. I hate that Canon sacrificed the red and green inks in the old I9900 printer in favor of light and medium gray. Because of this I have yet to get a good red out of this machine. It always comes out orange. I hate that it runs so many cleaning cycles. I hate that instead of running a cleaning cycle when I turn it on, it waits until I request a print, forcing me to wait two minutes while it grinds away. I can't return it because too much time has gone by, but I'm looking for a new printer to replace it.