Canon's BJC-2000 Bubble Jet printer is a well-rounded unit aimed at the home market. This affordable model offers a terrific balance of quality and flexibility. In addition to its printing tasks, the BJC-2000 offers the option to add document-scanning capability.
The parallel-compatible BJC-2000 is quite compact. Paper feeds downward from the rear of the unit and ejects horizontally from the front. During printing, the output tray slides out, and slides back underneath the unit to save space when you aren't printing. A small door in the center of the case flips down to allow access to the ink cartridge. When you open the cover, the print head presents itself automatically. To remove the print head cartridge, you simply flip up a blue lever and lift it out. Canon uses an interesting approach--a removable print head that accepts separate black and tri-color ink tanks. This configuration also allows you to remove those two tanks and replace them with a single high-capacity black ink tank.
Top resolution from this printer is 720 x 360 dpi and rated speeds range from 0.9 ppm for fine mode color printing, to 5 ppm for draft-mode, black text. The BJC-2000 is designed to print on a number of different media, including T-shirt transfers, greeting cards, transparencies, envelopes, and plain paper. One of the unit's most distinctive features is its optional scanning head. This inserts just like a print head and immediately turns the printer into an 8 bit, 360 dpi, sheet-fed scanner.
The BJC-2000 comes with Canon Creative Home--a software bundle with different applications that let you print greeting cards, kids' stationary, and photos, as well as perform optical character recognition (OCR) and connect to the Internet. The BJC-2000 isn't the fast ink-jet printer on the market, but its design simplicity and bargain price make it a fine choice for your home.
Pros:
- Easy to set up and use
- Flexible and economical ink tanks
- Generous software bundle
- Scanning option
- Highly affordable
Cons:
- Relatively slow print speed
- Parallel cable not included
Product Description:
Canon has created a printer so versatile, it can even be used as a scanner. The BJC-2000 color inkjet printer not only produces color, monochrome and photo-quality prints, it also accepts a Canon scanner cartridge to turn it into a scanner. This color bubble jet printer produces three types of prints merely by changing ink cartridges. It produces vibrant color prints at 2 ppm at 720 x 360 dpi with the standard color ink cartridge. With the optional black ink cartridge installed, the BJC-2000 yields crisp monochrome prints at 5 ppm. Used with the optional photo ink cartridge, this printer produces bold, photo-quality prints. The Canon Drop Modulation Technology reduces graininess while enhancing fine color gradations for more precise images. Use the scanner function by installing the optional IS-22 image scanner cartridge, which fits in place of the ink cartridge and lets you scan in color at 360 dpi. The BJC-2000 prints on a variety of media, including plain and glossy paper, greeting card stock, labels and photo stickers, transparencies, T-shirt transfers and envelopes. The BJC-2000 prints on paper up to legal size (8.5 x 14 inches) and holds up to 50 sheets of paper in the built-in sheet feeder. It also accepts banner paper. The included Canon Creative Home software makes it easy to create customized documents and crafts with templates and clip-art libraries. For added versatility, the BJC-2000 includes over 300 TrueType fonts on CD-ROM. The BJC-2000 is compatible with PCs running Windows 3.1, 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0, and connects easily via a parallel port interface.
Canon BJC-2000 Bubble Jet Printer