Advantages: Portable, cheap to print, small size on desk Disadvantages: Slow, only average print quality
...the software/driver for my desktop Canon at work conflicted with this one. Naturally I wanted to be able to use this at home (where my printing volume are low and my requirements more draft than presentation quality) and a more high volume one one my desk at work. But I couldn't! How stupid. Had to change my Canon printer at work for a different one (swapped with someone else in the office) then it was OK. You'd think Canon might have seen that one ... ...if you need this kind of thing. If you want high volume then buy a laser; if you want to print lots of images in colour etc then buy a photosmart or something.
But I have a laptop and I occasionally had to travel for work so it was really useful to be able to print off, say, a presentation I was preparing without having to rely on a hotel's business suite or whatever.
At home I only needed to print off the odd thing - a few pages a day, so the ...
sadoldbag 07.02.2008
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Advantages: Lightweight, highly portable Disadvantages: Quality of print, fragile
...Enter, stage left, the Canon BJC85. Grown up brother of a mono printer that preceeded it the purpose of this printer is slightly lost on me. Please, decide what you need to print before you leave home, the office or wherever. Print it there in good quality and then take it with you. A ream of paper is a similar weight to this baby so if you're not quite sure which page you require or how many, print loads.
I was sat in a car the other day making ... ...brought the price down - Canon are good at supplying and I can't believe there is much of a demand for them.
Let me just hop off my soap box for a moment and share a little technical detail with those still thinking that this sounds like the product they've always needed and really don't know how they've ever lived without.
The printer is tiny - about a twelve inch ruler long by half a twelve inch ruler wide.
It prints at an interminably slow ...
Plymyphil 20.01.2004
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