Canon BJC-2100 Bubble Jet Printer
Details
- Availability:
- No longer available through SilverGelatin.net
- List Price:
- $49.99
- Average Customer Rating:
- 3.0 out of 5
- Manufacturer:
- Canon Computer Systems
Features
- Lightweight, compact design for portability
- 720 x 360 resolution in color or B&W
- 2-sided duplex printing for Windows users
- Built-in USB and parallel ports
- Mac and PC compatible
Description
The BJC-2100 color bubble jet printer is the perfect choice for printing letters, full-color Web pages, beautiful photos or personalized birthday greetings. It handles everything with ease and offers superb 720 x 360 dpi quality at a truly great value. Connect in seconds to any USB-compatible Mac or PC and you're ready to print anything with impressive results.Advanced design makes the BJC-2100 printer exceptionally easy to use. You can load ink cartridges quickly, thanks to a drop-in loading system. Turn your printer into a color sheetfed scanner with the optional IS-22 color image scanner cartridge. Enhance image color and quality, convert photos to illustrations or add special color effects with the push of a button. And Windows users can print on both sides of a regular sheet of plain paper with the unique duplex printing feature.
The Canon BJC-2100 Bubble Jet is an ideal companion for your PC as well as your notebook or Powerbook--a printer so compact that it's easily moved, providing portable flexibility and dependability for printing anywhere you go. Whether on your desk or as part of your mobile office, the lightweight BJC-2100 offers easy operation with drop-in four-color ink cartridges and a 50-page sheet feeder to support continuous printing, all in a 5-pound package.
The Canon BJC-2100 provides clean black text at up to 5 ppm, while color prints up to 2 ppm, although the quality of this value-priced model is less than that of its more expensive Canon siblings. It supports a wide variety of media, including plain paper, banner paper, envelopes, glossy photo cards, greeting cards, Bubble Jet transparencies, T-shirt transfers, and more. You'll get prints of black text and dynamic color in high-quality 720 x 360 dpi. Also, replacing ink cartridges is quick and easy, thanks to drop-in loading.
Connect to any USB-compatible Mac or PC in one step and you're ready to print, whether on a business trip, a writer's retreat, or even at your home desk. The Canon BJC-2100 Bubble Jet portable printer ensures that there is no wait to print your drafts, presentations, contracts, and reports. Plus, with the addition of the optional IS-22 Color Image Scanner Cartridge, you can turn the BJC-2100 into a sheet-fed scanner. Windows users receive the extra benefit of two-sided printing, courtesy of a duplex printing feature.
Included in the package are a CD-ROM with printer drivers and American Greetings Creatacard software, a color ink cartridge, and power supply. Canon offers a one-year limited warranty on parts and labor.
Spotlight customer reviews
7 Years old and still going strong
[ Posted: 2006-04-15 ]
We got this printer new for [...] so we did not expect much. This printer is one of the only printers that has the capability to plug into old and new computers with both types of cable interfaces. If you do your own ink refills, this type of cartridge can be refilled in about 30 seconds, with no mess. Other types take 20 minutes or more with a huge messy ordeal. We can count on this printer in emergencies when any of our 4 home computers fail. One word of caution, if you don't use it at least once a week, you will need to clean the cartridge in rubbing alcohol (place a Tablespoon of rubbing alcohol in a small dish and let it soak for 1 minute, dry it with clean paper towel). It will be good as new. We are still on our original cartridges - 7 years of abuse! Don't waste your money on new cartridges.
Junk
[ Posted: 2006-01-03 ]
Bought brand new out of the box, locking lever was broken , fell into printer when first set up, unit hopelessly broken,returned to seller for refund.
great price great print
[ Posted: 2004-01-30 ]
i actually wanted to buy an epson c43ux but since it was out of stock, i decided to buy the canon bjc 2100sp. the dpi is quite low for a printer these days and also the epson model had much higher dpi. but then since i am was only print color photos once in a full moon and most of my needs would be for text prints, i settled for a canon printer. the installation was a jiffy even with a parallel port and we were up and away in just over a minute. the text prints are nice but the super economy mode prints are too light and need good lighting to read but i suppose, that must be expected when you are printing in super economy mode. well the ink cartridges are cheap and there are no three color cartridges like in some epson and other brand models. there is only one cartridge for the color and one for ink. the color prints are not that good.
One other thing to note is that the printer is not that clunky or cheap looking as the epson c43ux model which i originally intended to buy.it is compact and saves desk space.
Overall a good prnter if your needs include heavy text printing and that occasional photo prints.
Price-4/5
physical durability-4/5
ink costs-4/5
print speed-2/5
design-5/5
Do not buy this printer
[ Posted: 2004-01-14 ]
I bought this printer for my 85-yr-old mother to use with her iMac (OS 9.2). From the outset, there were problems. The drivers provided on the CD did not load properly, and the printer has never printed the way it should. I had to download drivers from the Canon website, which did not work either. Getting support from Canon was close to impossible and we are now going to junk a printer that ultimately printed a grand total of no more than 100 pages in its short demented life. I am not a helpless computer user, but I have never encountered so many problems with a printer. Maybe ours was a lemon, but I would not recommend this printer.
Couldn't be any worse
[ Posted: 2003-09-09 ]
I'll never buy another Canon printer again. I recieved this useless pile of junk as a wedding gift. It refused to print. At all. No test sheets, nothing.
So I PAID to call their inane tech support to fix THEIR problem. Spent an hour on the phone. The result? I get a "factory refurbished" printer in exchange for my new one. As I expected, the factory refurbished unit failed shortly after the 90 day warranty expired. At least I didn't pay for this piece of rubbish.