Cannon Printers

I purchased this printer after a very bad experience when I traveled away from home and needed to print out a simple document.So I had my laptop and I saw those ads about a business that offers to be your office away from home.Well, I could not get the document printed out.So I did my research and purchased the BJC-50 since it was the smallest portable printer available at the time (the two Canons and a HP version).My BJC-50 is about seven years old and still works.It worked well with my laptop and Windows 98 and now with my laptops using Windows XP.

PROS:
The BJC-50 is the smallest available travel printer for printing documents and prints at a relatively acceptable speed.

The BJC-50 printer includes a LiON battery which makes for truly portable printing.I’m amazed how long a charge lasts and the battery pack is inside a battery compartment in the printer (not externally like the HP Deskjet 460 series).Well, the LiON battery is piggy back attached to the HP 460.I’m guessing that HP recommends removing the battery before traveling.You don’t need to do that with the BJC-50.Just remember to slide the power lock switch on the right side of the BJC-50 to prevent the printer from accidentally turning on when traveling.

CONS:
The REALLY BAD part of this printer is that the ink cartridges, once opened, do not last very long.The color cartridges dry out faster than the black cartridges.And the ink cartridges do not provide feedback to indicate the amount of ink remaining in each cartridge.

The printer is relatively loud when it is printing.

You need to be careful when feeding the paper otherwise the printer ejects the paper.

I cannot get the IS-12 Scanner Cartridge in the BJC-50 printer to communicate with the IS application under Windows XP even though Canon’s web site and the Readme file says it is supported (there is a configuration issue somewhere).This is more effort than its worth for now.

SUMMARY:This is one temperamental printer.While it provides convenient printing on the go, I think it takes more effort than it should just to get something printed.

I’m purchasing a HP Deskjet 460WF.I’ll let you know how I like it soon.

Product Description
The Canon BJC-50 is a lightweight, portable printer with print quality equal to their inkjet printers. The BJC-50 offers two convenient features, especially for portable printing. For taking your computing on the road, the BJC-50 comes with a battery. It also has a wireless IrDA interface for cable-free printing. The Canon BJC-50 comes with TrueType fonts, and resident bitmap fonts. It’s capable of printing envelopes and transparencies, and with the optional auto sheet feeder, it has desktop printing capacity. As with other Canon products, the BJC-50 has an optional Color Image Scanner Cartridge that quickly converts the printer into a desktop scanner. Simply insert the cartridge into its slot and the BJC-50 becomes a sheetfeed scanner in just minutes.

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The price to performance ratio is excellant.Print speed and quality appear to better that other more expensive vendors. The rebate has expired on this product on 7-10-99.The rebate did influence my decision to buy. The printer is still a bargain at this price but I am disappointed in themarketing of this product with the rebate prominently mentioned.BuyerBeware!

Product Description
Now you don’t have to spend big bucks on a color printer to get big features. The BJC 1000 series takes today’s most useful and popular color printer capabilities and packs them into its compact, state-of-the-art design, yet still delivers the best printing value in its class. It’s the perfect choice for budget-minded families and students.It’s never been easier to add brilliant color, crisp black or even photo-quality to your documents. The BJC 1000 series handles it all with ease. Set up in seconds and start printing everything from greeting cards, school reports and homework to notes, letters, memos and Web pages. Its sleek design looks great anywhere and its compact size fits on any desktop.

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I have nothing but good things to say about the BJC-80.I’ve had it for two years, use it almost daily (mostly for color graphics printing) and it’s still going strong.It travels well and is very convenient to use. Black and white print quality is excellent and color print quality is outof this world.I have the battery pack and use infrared with my Thinkpadnotebook (something about wireless printing that can really impress aclient!).I also use the scanning adapter – works fine on the road, but Iprefer a flatbed scanner for most jobs.

Product Description
Canon BJC-80 portable printer is an ideal traveling companion. You get big inkjet printer performance from this small unit.The BJC-80 outputs black text at a fast five pages per minute (ppm), and color at two ppm, both at resolutions of 720 x 360 dots per inch (dpi). Canon includes some powerful printing technology in this portable printer. Its Drop Modulation Technology provides crisp, black text and rich, vivid color. The Canon BJC-80 is not only a powerful portable printer, it also quickly converts into a sheetfeed scanner. Simply insert Canon’s optional Color Image Scanner Cartridge and the BJC-80 is scanning documents into your computer in minutes. For added convenience, the BJC-80 includes an IrDA wireless interface for cable free printing. It’s powered by either an included AC power cord, or optional rechargeable batteries with power to print up to 200 pages.

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