Collection: Canon Pro9500 Ink Refill

All PGI-9 colors used in the Pro9500 are pigment inks, and our PGI-9 inks are Lucia compatible pigment inks to match. The set covers all ten colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Photo Black, Photo Cyan, Photo Magenta, Red, Green, Gray and Matte Black. These inks work in both the PIXMA Pro9500 and Pro9500 Mark II.

Our current set is neutral enough that black and white printing does not need an ICC profile.

No modification is needed. Reset the chip first if you use the resetter. Then place ink on the outlet pad and let the cartridge draw it in until it stops absorbing, or until it weighs about 32.5 grams. If you fill by eye, remove the excess ink before you reinstall it.

Refill original Canon cartridges. They are the only ones built properly for the Pro9500: internal springs meter the ink and mixing fans keep pigment from settling. Sponge-based cartridges cannot handle pigment settling.

Before each fill, gently agitate the bottle or rotate it end over end a number of times so the pigment is evenly mixed.

It is strongly recommended. The PGI-9 resetter is USB powered and resets the chips on all 10 colors to full, so the printer estimates ink again and warns you when a cartridge runs low. It comes in the Standard Kit and is sold on its own.

Without a reset the chip keeps reading empty. You can still print, but you must make sure every cartridge has ink, because printing with an empty cartridge can permanently damage the printhead.

Yes. We offer free custom ICC profiles for the Pro9500 and Pro9500 Mark II with our inks, covering papers from Red River, Canon, Staples, Kirkland and InkPress.

Every profile is made in-house with Argyll CMS and an X-Rite i1Pro2 spectrophotometer. Use Relative Colorimetric rendering intent. Each download includes lighting variants for different viewing conditions, and the listing shows the paper setting to use in the Canon driver.

Find them on the Pro9500 ICC profiles page.

Yes, and it is good practice. Every cartridge change sends the same amount of ink to the waste pad, whether you change one cartridge or ten.

Refill and reset every partly empty cartridge in one session. Reset before you fill, and keep the chip on the resetter until the light turns solid.

When you choose Matte Photo Paper in the driver, Canon prints black with Photo Black ink, so the black is not as deep as you might expect.

Choosing a fine art paper media type uses Matte Black instead. The trade-off is that the driver keeps larger borders on the sheet.

Almost certainly not. Most print problems on refilled Canon printers come from a cartridge, not the printhead.

Run a nozzle check to find the color at fault. A cleaning cycle or two clears most streaks. If one color stays weak, service or replace that cartridge.