by Canon
Platform:
Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / NT 3.5 / NT 4 / NT 5 / Me / XP / 2000 Server
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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
The BJC-2000 is incredibly compact, built for performance without taking up valuable desktop space. Prints crisp, rich black text, brilliant color, and spectacular photo output. You can even turn your BJC-2000 into a sheet-fed scanner with the optional IS-22 color image scanner cartridge. Includes Canon Creative Home Project software.