Customer Reviews

Canon BJC-1000 Color Bubble Jet Printer

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

The price to performance ratio is excellant. Print speed and quality appear to better that other more expensive vendors. The rebate has expired on this product on 7-10-99. The rebate did influence my decision to buy. The printer is still a bargain at this price but I am disappointed in the marketing of this product with the rebate prominently mentioned. Buyer Beware!

I previously used the Canon BJC 4300 which was fine except it drank ink like you wouldn't believe. I don't make that many hard copies, probably one 8 1/2 x 11 page a week and once in a great while, copy some email, yet I replaced the black ink cartridge 3-4 times a year and the color, twice, in the 4300. It broke after 2 years. (Planned obsolescence ?)So I thought when I bought this BJC 1000, I would save money. With my rebate, it will only cost $40, plus shipping. But I have no idea yet how long the ink cartridge will last and it is quite expensive - $30, almost as much as the printer! And it is so slow, too. It takes approximately 2 1/2 minutes to hard copy 1 page, 8 1/2 x 11. I only hope I can buy a black ink (only) cartridge for this thing when it runs out and that it will be considerably cheaper than the color and that it will also last a long time. If I have to replace this $30 ink cartridge 2-3 times a year, I will replace this BJC 1000 with one that is much more conservative, like an HP or something else. My friends have HP's and they tell me they hardly ever replace ink cartridges. The money you save on ink cartridges at these prices more than offsets the higher priced printers and their print quality is better and much faster.

Loading the software couldn't have been made any easier. User's manual user friendly too. The print quality in black is excellent and fast enough. Color is quite slow with good quality. Very quiet too. A good way to begin color printing.

Excellent print quality, both color & black ink. The black cartidge lasts a lot longer than the color (we averaged 300 to 400 pages to a cartridge for black ink; approximately 200 for the color). We found the cover (to access the printer cartridge somewhat difficult to open). We plan on upgrading to the BJC-2000 in the near future.

I owned this printer since 1998 and it is still working. It is reliable. It let you print a lot of pages before the ink is out. You can network this printer without a problem. It can easily be put on a print server and used by all the computers on the network. I don't have driver on disk anymore but the driver is still available on the net especially on canon's website. The only problem I have in recent months is the ink is becoming scarce. Most stores don't carry the ink anymore. I just recently found the ink on amazon.com which, is great for me.

Overall, I recommend this printer.

I came from a HP540 and it was considerably faster

I am a first time computer, printer user, and I was not happy with this printer. It was very hard to work with the print driver and then shut down on me. I exchanged it and still had problems. Part of the problem was mine,due to the explanations given, and also lack of support. When I called Canon for help, I was told by an automated machine that my machine was no longer under warrenty and it would cost me 25.oo for the call, finally after using 3 e-mails I got some help and got it to work. I am also on my 3rd ink cartridge because it was not clear that the printer is to be plugged directly into AC wall outlet and left on at all times. I am not happy at all with the color also. The reds are orange.

The picture quality is very good for such a budget printer. I purchased mine primarily for text printing and am using the BC-20 black print head which has a very large tank (good for aprox. 900 pages of text) compared to the much smaller tank of black ink (good for aprox. 225 pages of text) that is on the BC-21e color print head that is included with the printer. The BC-20 prints black text faster than the color head as it has 128 nozzles for black compared to 64 black nozzles on the BC-21e. The color head has replacable color and black tanks which are cheaper to replace than buying the entire print head. The print head is very easy to replace. It just drops into a slot and a lever is pulled forward to lock it into the holder.

It's great for the price and it is compatible with with webtv plus.It was easy to set up and use and is a great basic printer if your like me and always said I'll never use a computer this printer is nice I hooked it up and was glad for the first time I did something on the computer without my ten year old sons help! it prints text well ok image quality and long ink life.

I bought it on June 1999 amd it 'till works awesome like the day i purchased it. !!!