Canon BJC-6000 Color Bubble Jet Printer (PC/Mac)

by Canon

Product Details

Product Manual [971kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 19 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00000JH6Q
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

The Canon BJC-6000 is designed for both busy workplaces and home offices. It provides fast, affordable, professional-quality, high-resolution black and color printing. An intelligent ink system with individual tanks eliminates waste and saves money, and optional Canon Photo Inks and specialty paper create amazing near-photo-quality output.

To set up the Canon BJC-6000, we followed the instructions on the Quick Start guide. Because the BJC-6000 comes with several large tanks (one each for black, cyan, magenta, and yellow), and because the tanks and cartridges are separate, setup took longer than usual. The Canon Creative Pro CD-ROM comes with several complementary applications, so software installation took a little longer as well.

In our test of the BJC-6000, we printed several color and black-and-white samples in each of the printer's four modes--draft, good, better, and best. Our samples included graphics, large and small letters, and a variety of fonts and color shades. Black text was razor sharp and approached the quality of a modest laser printer. There was only a tiny bit of ink bleeding, even on normal uncoated paper, and a multi-colored tight-register sample looked especially impressive.

We also scanned and printed a 32-bit color photograph. Even without the optional Canon Photo Inks and specialty paper, the hard copy was warm and detailed, capturing the texture of the original with surprising accuracy. We also appreciated the speed--up to five pages per minute (ppm) in color.

The Canon BJC-6000 is an impressive bubble-jet printer with a great software bundle; it would make an excellent addition to any small office.

Pros:

• Sharp, near-laser-quality black printing
• 1440 x 720 color printing
• Up to 8 ppm
• Great software bundle

Cons:

• Lots of ink cartridges to keep track of
• Setup takes a little longer
• No printer cable

From Winmag®

Canon's BJC-6000 is the only printer in this group that uses a separate photo cartridge-a practice that seems to be on the decline. It's also the only one that uses separate ink tanks for each color. That makes setup a little tricky, since the color, photo and black ink cartridges have to be loaded with the appropriate ink tanks. The refill process is made somewhat easier by its optical low-ink sensor.

Printouts on photo paper were very good with both the photo cartridge and the regular color cartridge. The photo-cartridge output was markedly less grainy and had slightly better color variations, especially with reds.

Black text was admirably dark and smooth, about equal to the Stylus Color 900's output and not quite as sharp as that of the DeskJet 895Cse. However, its draft mode was much fuzzier than the other printers' low-resolution modes and not suitable for correspondence. Spot color was solid but muted in tone.

The BJC-6000 was a little slower than the Epson and the HP, but faster at printing text than the Lexmark The BJC-6000 and the Stylus Color 900 are both a tad larger than the other two models tested, which could be a consideration if space is tight.

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Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I hope bigger is better., February 15, 2000

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Bob (Houston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon BJC-6000 Color Bubble Jet Printer (PC/Mac) (Office Product)

For the record I've only had the machine for a few days, so obviously I haven't worked out every issue. However, I can comment on initial set up and quality. I have encountered NO problems with set up or software drivers. Be careful with the ink cartridges, they are squirrely and if you mess one up, its mess city (no I didn't). So far I have noticed that the printer, while making some noise, is far quieter than two other brands I had previously. Print quality is ok, but not great. I am assuming that this will improve as I figure out what settings and paper to use. The main thing is this baby seems large, as in real big, and takes up more space than the monitor practically. In summary I had no set up hassles, no broken or missing parts, and the software loaded and worked flawlessly on a Dell Pentium 2 450. There was no cord, annoying, but about right it would seem. I bought the cable that I wanted, be warned you won't get one in the box. Also, you gotta love the ability to replace the little ink tanks individually as necessary. I assume you could refill also. I have read a few other reports of major defects right out of the box. Thankfully I haven't seen that yet, but there's always a few lemons on the loose. ..Cheers!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Love my Canon, December 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Canon BJC-6000 Color Bubble Jet Printer (PC/Mac) (Office Product)

We just purchased our second Canon printer. The first was a BJ-610 which has serviced us for over 5 years. It is now going to our son. We purchased another Canon because of the good luck we had with the BJ-610. We are purchasing a new digital camera and the new 6000 has the special resolutions to handle digital photos. It has the additional color cartridge for photos. My biggest reason for purchasing the 6000 is the individual color cartridges. My grandkids come over and love to print colored pictures. This will allow me to put in only the colors that have run out. Our primary use for the printer is home use and now with the new digital camera, photos. We have yet to put it through it's paces and with the information from a previous review (Rich, San Antonio, Tx), I'm sure that we'll be able to set the resolutions to accomodate the pictures perfectally.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great output - but not very fast, November 8, 1999

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RichieP (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon BJC-6000 Color Bubble Jet Printer (PC/Mac) (Office Product)

I found the default settings do not do this printer justice. It took patience and lots of wasted paper, ink and time to get the results I wanted. BUT, once I did, I can only say that some of my print was stunning. Especially when using high resolution paper. One drawback is speed (or the lack thereof). Printing text is OK, but to get high quality photo or graphics be prepared to wait. It took 9 minutes to print one page of a newsletter which had 3 graphics and 1 photo... but, WOW did it look good (as well it should!)