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A review by C.Laslett on Canon BJC 1000 March 31st, 2001
Author's product rating:
Picture quality
Satisfactory
Printing speed
Slow
Colour sensitivity
Poor
Ease of use
Easy
Value For Money
Satisfactory
Advantages:
Cheap
Disadvantages:
Expensive to run
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
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I bought this printer as it was one of the cheaper models on the market(about £55), and being a student, that was quite appealing. However, the money you save initially is soon spent on buying expensive cartridges. The Canon's own make are very overpriced (about £20-£25), and few, if any, of the cheaper companies (e.g WHSmith's own make) produce cartridges for this model.
The printer itself is fairly slow and will only take one cartridge at a time, either black or colour. It comes with a colour cartridge which can print black by using the other three colours, but this is very costly. A container is supplied with the printer so that you can store one type of cartridge whilst using another, however I found that after a few weeks the ink dries out and the cartridge must be replaced.
As a plus point, the printer is both easy to use and install. It's compact size means that it fits quite neatly on the desk, however it doesn't have a tray to collect your print-outs so you have to catch them before they fall on the floor and smudge.
I have found that the printer jams up more often than you would expect and the print quality isn't always that good. To be quite honest, it really isn't worth saving a few pounds on buying this model. You might as well splash out on a decent quality one as you will save money in the long run.
Advantages: CHEAP, SMALL Disadvantages: ONLY GOOD FOR LIGHT USE
I bought the Canon because it was cheap (yep, let's be honest. here, I'm a penny-pincher!). I got it for £30 with my PC package (which was NOT cheap!), from Currys.
I am impressed with the fact that this printer is quite small, and so can go just about anywhere. It is also quite light, making it easy to move it around. It can be quite loud, but you get used to it after a while. It is quite slow if you are printing anything in fine print, and can ... ...the reviews I have read you can get a much better printer for just £30-40 more (the RRP on the Canon BJC-1000 is around £55).
I would reccomment that if you are going to use a printer a fair bit, spend a bit more and get a better printer. ...
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Advantages: Cheap start-up price. Disadvantages: Expensive cartridges and only one cartridge at a time.
...is the second of two canon printers that I have owned and on the whole I have found it to be good. I will admit that when I purchased it I was only attracted to it because of its price. It was very cheap when compared to the other brands that were available at the time (it cost about £60 from Dixons about two years ago). However after getting it home and setting it up it struck me that there were several other benefits to it.
Compared to a lot of ... ...to use it. Original Canon cartridges are very expensive to buy but it is possible to purchase clone cartridges much more cheaply, I have been buying recycled cartridges from Dixons which are still quite expensive but a lot cheaper than the Canon originals. Alternatively it is possible to refill the cartridges yourself using ink that can be purchased from a huge number of supplies. This is possible because unlike most modern printers the cartridges ...
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...perfects a quality of expressing - raster structure becomes less observable, picture - more saturated.
If you need a home printer mainly for printing a text and uncomplicated graphs, Canon BJC-1000 can become a nonbad choice. Considering its small size, its painlessly possible will "put" practically in any interior. ...
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I bought a Canon BJC-1000 printer when on a tight budget and was pleasantly surprised by its performance. The Canon BJC-1000 is a very good budget printer, offering a print quality which will be more than good enough for the average home user. It is easy to setup under Windows 98, simply a case of running the CD and I have never had a problem with paper jams or such like.
One of its major weaknesses is however, its speed. Printing a large document ... ...Another problem is that the Canon BJC-1000 is one of those printers which requires you to switch the ink cartridges around if you intend to print in colour or in black and white, there is no space provided for both cartridges at once. True, this is not too much of a problem and if you are not too worried about ink expenditure then the colour cartridge prints in black as well by mixing the colours. Overall though it is a very solidly designed printer ...
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Advantages: Cheap to buy, reasonable running costs Disadvantages: For the home user/students
...from the floor! The Canon BJC 1000 will also print on envelopes, transparencies, greeting cards, plain paper, glossy paper, iron-on transfers, photo paper, high-gloss film, fabric, glossy photo paper and glossy photo greeting cards. She has never had a paper jam yet!
Print quality - Max Resolution B&W 720 x 360 dpi - 360 x 360 dpi colour - is good for such a cheap printer, and although at up to 4 pages a minute in Black, printing speed is slow compared ... ...the small home user.
Genuine Canon ink cartridges are £16.39 colour and £14.18 black from buy.com (30/03/01) and seem to last and last.
Buy.com currently has a BJC 1000 bundled with a Canoscan FB3303 scanner for £84.95 which is excellent value for students or the small home user. ...
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Advantages: Extremely quick, cheap to run, very good image quality. Disadvantages: Slightly large footprint, some may prefer bonus software.
...Prior to purchasing my own Hewlett Packard DeskJet 840C I ran a DeskJet 693C with an older computer and was thoroughly impressed with it. When it came to choosing a new printer to take to University with me I once again opted for a Hewlett Packard product and am not sorry I did. When making the choice I weighed the HP840C against two other options at similar prices: The Epson Stylus 670 and Canon’sBJC-1000.
The HP840C boasts an impressive maximum resolution of 600x1200 dots per inch and produces very crisp images. High-colour graphics are vibrantly colourful with good definition between different shades of very similar colours. Crucially yellow on a white background is picked out far better on this printer than on most others. Standard text prints extremely well in whatever colour you pick.
In image quality and resolution...
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Advantages: Cheap, compact, quiet, fairly quick in B&W Disadvantages: Single cartridge so uses lots of colour to make black if you don't change the cartridge
...We decided that we wanted a new printer when our CannonBJC-1000 started smudging ink on the paper just 6 months after we got it, so we took it back and searched online for something about the same price about £50.
We settled on the Lexmark Z12 having seen it on QVC and ordered from Jungle, it arrived in a box, with no cable, but we had one anyway and instruction book and a colour cartridge.
I set it up and then couldn't find the installation disk, oops there it is, in a pocket in the back of the manual.
Once installed we decided to see what the print was like using the Calender that is included on the installation disk - WOW!!! Compared with the Cannon the Black was really Black and the colours were really Vibrant.
The ink cartridges are quite expensive , but we have found they can be refilled quite easily, and hard...
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Advantages: good quality printing Disadvantages: expensive cartridges
...I have recently purchased the Epson 740, after returning a CanonBJC1000 I had purchased and was not at all pleased with (see review)
I have found the Epson 740 to be a reliable, easy to use printer which produces good quality prints at a good speed and at a reasonable price. The cartidges are not cheap but a search on the internet came up with much cheaper prices from various sites.
QLS,auction site came up with good quality replacements at a reasonable price. Well done Epson for a good printer but please try and keep the cost of your consumables down....
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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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