Well, I was given the ipf5000.
It needed ink and 1 new head.
I know it was not used a lot, and one can easily check how much it was used in service mode.
I had to wait three days for the head, after I started to change head in the dialogue and had to turn it off because I had not gotten the new printhead yet, and the other head did not clog even though it was not parked right. (red ink was not enough for this process, as it wanted to fill new ink..)
Then it started with alignments by itself, printing on paper and aligning, after two cleanings, and has worked fine since. But the ink bronzes much more than the epson ink.
This has cost just a little less than buying a new Epson SC P800.
Is there an old thread on ipf 5000? So that I do not highjack this thread.
I read canonipf.wiki and they give the link for downloading the 5100 driver for OS X 10-8 from canon europe. On the other mac I tried a newer driver but it is missing important things so I think they are right about which driver to download. (the newer driver is missing the image showing where to load the paper and which way it prints) (I find three drivers in the add printer dialogue)
I only tried it from Lightroom, so I did not try the photoshop plugin yet I think, unless it was what I got from LR
But would the ipf5000 driver be just as good?