Canon BJC 1000

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Expensive to run

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, ...
...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 ... Read review

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. ... Read review

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Nonbad photoprint, low noise level
Disadvantages: Low quality colour prints, short cable

...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. ... Read review

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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 ... Read review