Mike, thanks.  Yes I have retained the 2022.119 version as I had my fingers burned a few years back!   I will go ahead and try the demo, especially as the photo club season starts early September and printing starts with a fury.

Unfortunately my Canon Imageprograf 1000 died after less than 2 years due to a design fault and Canon would not do anything about it so am running on older (and only A3+) Canon Pixma Pro 9000 mk ii which paper manufacturers have stopped supplying ICC profiles for newer papers and in some cases remove dthem for older papers!

Will soon get a new A2 printer but perhaps not a Canon.  Shame we have little competition nowdays for printers with (at the amateur end) only Canon and Epson.  Each ahve their drawbacks.

Mike, I already have QIMage v2022.119 and the AI feature cannot be tested as I cannot install a DEMO version over my current version.  I am asking as I am considering another year of support/upgrades or even a lifetime licence (missed the discount so might have to wait for Black Friday or next promotion).

Oddly though I have had QI installed for a number of years I have not yet printed through it.  The idea of the AI setting up the printer sounds a real time and brain saver for me with many other competing time constraints.

Is the forum dead or dying as many posts have not had life for years?  I thought this was where QI U users asked questions and discussed issues?

Does no one not even Mike know the answer to this one?

Can anyone point me at a list of supported printers for the new AI feature.  I know it only supports Canon and Epson but does it support my rather old and clanky Canon Pixma Pro 9000 mkii?   Sadly some paper manufacturers are removing or not bothering (with new papers) to produce ICC profiles.  As such I now only buy from those still providing those profiles.  Lost sales for some.

Robert,
           I think you are correct in that no one knows.  What you quote in you original post are known facts about the Imageprograf Pro 1000 which is a massive ink consumer and waster.   A fine printer in itself apart from its increasingly dubious reliability with many having to be scrapped due to mechanical breakdowns and extortionate repair costs.

A Pro 10s is at least two models down and considered (by Canon) a consumer printer and as such may not have the over zealous automatic and undefeatable cleaning cycles of the Pro 1000 since I am sure even Canon know that consumers are not printing every day or often every week?

I did own the Pro 1000 but I would advise anyone contemplating buying one to buy elsewhere.  It is still on a table next to my desk here and I have just sold over a £1000 worth of ink cartridges on eBay.  It is scrap but hardly used.  The new Canons (200 and 300) are also a waste of a purchase as the ink cartridges are too small.  As such I am moving to Epson as soon as the P900 is proven and available.  The jury is still out on the former and the latter does not occur until 2021.

I ran my Pro 1000 attached to a UPS as switching it off at night and on again triggered cleaning as did the 60 hour cycle.  It was /is a nightmare!

So I am afraid I cannot answer your question either but I would guess if the Canons with tiny ink volumes carried out the same shameful cleaning cycles of a Pro 1000 then you would be buying Canon ink cartridges often?  You may well know the answer yourself by now and I am sure many would want to know?

Are the new Epson P700 and P900 printers supported by current version of QU?

Looks like this forum is dead or whoever cant be bothered to comment/reply? 

Hello All
 
    Does anyone know if a Canon Imageprograf 1000 is kept powered up and a nozzle check/purge page is printed every 2 days if a major clean and loss of ink can be avoided?  Jose Rodriguez (on YOUTUBE) appears to state that the trigger perion for the pro 1000 to be 60 hours but it cannot be avoided?

I was hoping that a scheduled purge page within the 60 hour period might avoid the issue.  I was only getting about 40 A3 photographs printed from £600 worth of ink!   I am considering trashing the printer and buying something else.

Hello Mike

Is it possible or even useful to add the option of triggering a nozzle check on a schedule?  I realise that the purge page is sophisticated and designed/crafted to fully exercise all it needs (especially Epson) but it does seem to use a fair wack of ink?  Do the Canon printers need as much ink laid down?