Canon BJC-2000 Bubble Jet Printer
Details
- Availability:
- No longer available through SilverGelatin.net
- Average Customer Rating:
- 2.5 out of 5
- Manufacturer:
- Canon Computer Systems
Features
- 720 x 360 dpi resolution
- Color and black printing
- Scanning option
- Compact design
- Includes Canon Creative Home software package
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'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
Spotlight customer reviews
Da Best For Me
[ Posted: 2008-05-23 ]
I've had one of these BJC 2000's ever since I dumped my HP printers years ago. Low priced. Very reliable and long-lived. Great home printer--not recommended for office environment. Fairly slow, and inkjet printouts will smudge if wetted. It ain't a laser jet! Cheap printing supplies. I wish they still made new ones.
I Would Like To Put This Canon Printer In a Catapault And Hurl It Into A Dumpster!
[ Posted: 2005-10-17 ]
I have this Canon BJC 2000 printer, received it as a gift and it worked fine for a short time but than became a real headache, an absolute nightmare and I see by reading these reviews that I'm not the only one who had problems with this printer. The printer worked good for a short time but then the nightmare of paper jams, lousy print, etc began. You try and print something and the printer totally screws up and you get lines that are so bad you can't read the words or it will start printing then shoot the paper out as if it finished printing or needed two pages and half of the recipe or whatever you are trying to print will come out with half of the print missing or blurry or wih lines through it so to get a decent print you wind up wasting a lot of ink and paper and it just gets worse and worse. I like the review by the guy who also dislikes this printer and said he would like to shoot his Canon with a cannon. I wouldn't mind shooting my Canon with a cannon either and actually I would like to put this Canon printer in a catapalt and hurl it into the town dump!
BJC = Bad Junky Canon
[ Posted: 2005-03-21 ]
I really don't like this printer. Though, it's good in some ways. The printer doesn't use that much ink, so you don't have to buy printer ink very often. Plus, it does a quite good job cleanig itself.
Now for the negatives, which are much more important than the positives. First off, I have a LOT of paper feed problems. A lot of times when I put 5 sheets in it takes the whole entire 5 sheets. Another problem is the print-out quality. Even on the best setting and on high quality paper, the print is still low-quality. It has white lines all over the picture. Also, man is it SLOW! It's the slowest printer ever! It takes more than 3 minutes to print out something that covers half of the paper. Half! The whole paper takes 6-7 minutes depending on the color of the document or picture you choose to print. Of course, there is a draft mode (a.k.a. poor quality), which is pretty fast (about 30 second a full sheet of paper), but is almost unusable because it's quality is horrid! It has white lines on the paper and it has little ink on it. Even though it does a good job cleaning, cleaning takes a little while too. Also, this printer is not new. Were not in the 90's anymore people! There are probably printers for lower price that work much better. Which leads to my next complaint. Install on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS 9, and Mac OS X are a pain! The operating systems listed above are pretty new and aren't supported by the OS, so it's a PAIN to install or uninstall.
Overall:
Pros:
- Don't have to buy ink often.
- Good cleaning.
Cons:
- Bad paper feed.
- Bad quality print-out.
- Very slow at printing and cleaning.
- There are better printers for less price.
- Bad install.
- Bad uninstall.
Recommendation: If you see it at a yard sale for less than $20 and you don't care much for quality or features, buy it. But other than that, DON'T BUY! Not worth $70.
Save your money! Please.
[ Posted: 2003-05-20 ]
Within a few months after purchase printer head died. Thought I was just unlucky, forked out a cool [$$$] for a new printer head(my second bad move). Printer head this time lasted about a year and a half with minimal use. Consumption of ink is excessive and therefore costly.The number of bad reviews for this printer sums it all.Just because it says its a "canon" do not be fooled.Buyer beware!
Medium quality and works for a couple of years
[ Posted: 2002-12-04 ]
I liked this printer in the begining. But it used a lot of ink and the ink was costly. Then I bought a box of cartridges from a supplier. But alas, by then the printer stopped working. I thought head was dirty but no. I guess head has worn out in two years even though my usage was very little. A box of cartridges is going waste. Then I bought a Lexmark Z13 almost at negligible price after rebates. I have heard that it doesn't have same problem. I am thinking to get a re-fill kit for it.