Given me years of fine results (Canon BJC-6000)

Member Name: neepheid

Product:	Canon BJC-6000
Date:	30/04/02 (490 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: seperate ink reservoirs, photo capable, high quality

Disadvantages: speed could be better, noise and vibration

I have owned a Canon BJC-6000 for 3 or 4 years now, after my trusty BJ-10ex bit the dust after many years of hard work (carried me through most of my years at University).

I have been very happy with the consistently high quality output this printer has given me. I trusted it to print my final year thesis out on, and it took it all in its stride.

The positive aspects of this printer are:

Individual ink reservoirs: with many printers, the colour inks (cyan, magenta and yellow) are all contained in one unit. If one of these colour components ran out, you had to replace the whole thing - wasting money. This printer has a seperate tank for each colour so you only need to replace the ink that has run out. On a related note, the print heads are also seperate from the inks and they don't need to be changed every time (unlike most cartridges where the print head is contained within the unit), saving more money.

Bubblejet as opposed inkjet: inkjets tend to saturate the paper with ink, causing buckling and taking a long time to dry, increasing the chance of smudging. Canon's Bubblejet does not squirt ink at the paper but forms a minute bubble which is then popped where ink is to be deposited. Less ink is used and there is less chance of buckling and smudging.

Drivers: the drivers are pretty good. They monitor the amount of ink in the reservoirs pretty accurately and give you plenty warning when the ink is low. You can control advanced features like whether the power is automatically turned off and how long before that happens.

Flexible: this printer is photo capable. You swap the high capacity black only print head/reservoir for a combined black/photo cyan/photo magenta unit. Canon provide a holder that seals the black unit when it is out of the printer and vice versa.

There aren't many disadvantages to this printer. I have to say that it doesn't take kindly to third party ink reservoirs
. They tend to leak and don't last as long as Canon ones - false economy. Recently my one has been a little bit fussy about feeding paper, but that may be down to the type of paper I'm using.

It is a bit noisy and creates quite a lot of vibration. It's not the fastest printer in the world, especially if you crank up the quality, but for most everyday stuff, it's fine for me.

I realise that this printer has been superceded, but as it looked a little lonely with no posts, I thought I'd share my opinion. I would have no trouble picking a Canon printer next time (if there is a next time).

Summary: