Canon Pixma Pro9500 Mark II A3+ Colour Photo InkJet Printer

I chose the Canon 9500 (mark 1) after directly comparing it with the HP9180 and Epson 2880 using a test file. nb the annual Focus on Imaging at NEC is well worth the entrance fees to do this sort of comparison.
The differences were small and your preference could easily be different to mine.
However, the quality of prints I got when I started using it at home were superb - so only minor complaints (eg rather noisy clunks when it starts grabbing the paper and expensive ink).
What is worth commenting on is that for complicated reasons it was turned off about a year ago and left unused. I asked the Canon tech at FOI this Spring what should I expect when I restarted it (!) as I was concerned that the pigments would have settled out and blocked everything requiring a major set of cartridge and nozzle replacements.
In practice I just ran a nozzle clean and everything is back up just as good as before.
So, I recommend it as a professional piece of kit.