The Canon BJC 250bubble jet printer is a small lightweight printer suitable for printing simple documents for the home or office. When I bought this printer is was about £90 and has proved ideal for all my essays for school and college.
The printer cartridges typically cost from about £17 to £25 depending on what cartridge you buy and the retailer. You can buy 4 different cartridges, dedicated black, colour, photo colour and fluorescent colours. The printer is small compared to others and I have it sitting on my mini tower computer and I still have space to put my pens ;-).
In operation the printer is fairly quiet and does not rock the desk like others. The output quality of the printer isn't as good as more expensive printers like Hewlett Packard or Epson but it's still not too bad. The paper loading is rather poor though. The printer feeds the paper in at an angle so the text isn't being printed in a straight line and other faults can occur with the ink where it runs and smudges.
If you use the colour cartridge there is no black ink so the printer mixes the three colours in the cartridge to form a black which is known as composite black. This makes printing with a colour cartridge very slow but printing with a dedicated black cartridge is much faster.
The machine is very simple to use and the driver has some good features. The printer is energy saving which means it can be switch itself on and off when required and can print on various materials from film to fabric.
The printer is very easy to use with just two buttons and a single three colour LED indicator. The instruction booklet is concise and clear and driver and a font pack is supplied on three diskettes.
The photo realism with the colour cartridge looks quite good and the dedicated black cartridge prints clear text.
Basically, this is a quick, simple cheap and cheerful printer to use which is ideal for basic documents but if you require something which will give better output I recommend you look elsewhere.
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Canon BC-05 3 colour inkjet cartridge for use with BJC-150, BJC-210 and BJC-240/250/1000 ... more
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Advantages: Good long lasting cartridges, small - requires very little space Disadvantages: Only one cartridges can be installed at a time (black or white)
Vijay_Jag 18.02.2005 ·
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Advantages: Small. Can be handy for black printouts with black cartridge. Disadvantages: Slow. Expensive cartridges. Only either colour or black at one time.
Kevin_Pritchard 09.06.2001 ·
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Advantages: Good long lasting cartridges, small - requires very little space Disadvantages: Only one cartridges can be installed at a time (black or white)
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Advantages: Small. Can be handy for black printouts with black cartridge. Disadvantages: Slow. Expensive cartridges. Only either colour or black at one time.
Kevin_Pritchard 09.06.2001 ·
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