>>4249163>but the allure of archival quality prints gets me hornyyou and canon's marketing department. I chose the 200 over the 300 because pigment seems to be a meme. dye is pretty long living and i don't think anyone will care if your print lasts 30 or 100 years. also pigment prints tend to scratch very easily.
if I wanted to go pigment I'd choose the 1000 anyway because the price difference to the 300 is only like 200 euros and the 1000 can print larger _and_ the ink is cheaper in the long run because bigger cartridges.
but I don't care as I'm very happy with my 200. I mostly print b&w on hahnemuehle photo rag baryta (for prints I really care about) or on ilfords studio matte (very cheap yet very nice results for the price).
for color - which I don't do often - I just take canon's platinum pro and go full kitsch bombastic color mode.
picrelated is some color prints on ilford studio matte (the small A4 ones). just test printed them when I got the printer and hung them on the wall.
tldr - don't listen to youtube and forums retards telling you that you NEED pigment becaue they're full of shit. there's a reason why canon has the 200 pro and the 300 pro - dye and pigment are two different media and none is really better than the other
check out keith cooper's youtube channel - he compares the 200 and the 300 and he's based and not one of those gearfag retards
