Canon BJC-85 Portable Color Bubble Jet Printer

by Canon

Product Details

Product Manual [4.76mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 11.8 x 6.2 inches ; 3.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 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: B00004SGBW
• Item model number: Q30-3210-US1
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #76 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Printers > Inkjet Printers
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Canon BJC-85 color bubble jet printer is an exceptional combination of lightweight portability and professional-quality desktop printing--a remarkably fast, commanding little printer, enabling you to produce letters, memos, and reports on all your excursions. The perfect companion to your desktop or laptop, both Mac and PC compatible, the Canon BJC-85 color bubble jet printer is practical for travel and use just about anywhere with its long-life battery (and optional battery pack) and the AC adapter. Plus, fast built-in infrared IrDA wireless technology lets you print without a cable connection.

Sleek size is just an introduction to the printer: documents print in crisp 720 x 360 dpi black and at a surprisingly swift speed--for a portable printer--of five pages per minute in black and white and two pages per minute in color. These rates are supported by a 30-sheet paper feed for continuous printing. The crisp and vibrant colors delivered by the Canon BJC-85 color bubble jet printer on charts, graphs, and photos are necessity, not luxury, whether you are home or away. With the addition of the optional IS-12 color image scanner cartridge you can transform the BJC-85 into a sheet-fed color scanner, which is an outstanding opportunity to gain two compact and portable machines in one.

Even with the AC adapter and optional battery included, the Canon BJC-85 weighs in at just 4.5 pounds. Printing while on the road or in the air is easy when you carry the Canon BJC-85 color bubble jet printer's impressive high quality with you. A universal power adapter, color and black ink cartridges, and a CD-ROM with printer/scanner drivers are included. Canon offers a one-year limited warranty on parts and labor with SelectExchange on the BJC-85 printer.

From the Manufacturer

The award-winning, portable BJC-85 Color Bubble Jet Printer gives you the power to print high-quality black and color documents wherever you go. It features both a built-in USB and parallel port for easy connection to any compatible Mac or PC, fast IrDA (version 1.1) for wireless printing capability, and a long-life battery (with optional battery pack). This printer is so exceptional that professional-quality desktop printing is no longer a luxury reserved for the office-bound.

Whether you're out of the office or short on desktop space, the compact, ultra-light BJC-85 printer is the perfect companion to your laptop or desktop computer. Its sleek, stylish look and size are just the beginning; this portable powerhouse really performs. Print letters, memos, reports, and other documents in crisp, 720 x 360 dpi black at speeds up to 5 ppm. Output Web pages, charts, graphs, and photos in vibrant color. And do it all with ease using built-in, infrared wireless technology.

The BJC-85 printer delivers all the performance you need, without compromises. A built-in, 30-sheet paper feeder supports continuous printing. With the optional IS-12 Color Image Scanner Cartridge, the BJC-85 printer transforms into a 360 dpi color sheet-fed scanner, so you can have two powerful portable machines in one.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

88 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Small, Convenient, Works Great!!, August 10, 2000

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J. Morgan "joelmor" (Millburn, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon BJC-85 Portable Color Bubble Jet Printer (Office Product)

The Canon BJC-85 is a small, lightweight printer that is easy to pack and works wonderfully well. It has both parallel and USB connections for PC's or MAC's. The quality of the black text printing is very good - especially when you consider the small size and light weight of this printer. The color printing is also amazingly good. The software loads easily, and I had mine up and running in a matter of minutes attached to my laptop. You'll need to buy either a parallel or USB cable, since it isn't included. Canon has the best reputation, by far, of all the brands who make portable printers and this is their newest model. This is really a terrific little printer that is well worth the price for people on the road who need to print from their laptops.

55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just what I was looking for.., January 3, 2001

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Bev (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canon BJC-85 Portable Color Bubble Jet Printer (Office Product)

This printer is a convenient size for someone with limited desk space or for taking it with you when traveling. The battery pak mentioned that can be used with this printer is available through DELL. It may take a bit of searching to find it. Click on Printers, then look for the Canon BJC-85, then click on more details under the printer icon, then related products on the next screen. It does not state for BJC-85 but it is the correct battery pack or ask Dell for reassurance, I did! I have been very pleased with the print quality of such a small printer, even the graphics are great. For Word Processing that requires mostly black ink, use the large BCI-10 Ink Cartridge it is better than the small black tank you use with color printing. I have not been able to locate the Infrared Driver for it does anyone know where that can be acquired? I am more than pleased with this quality and size of this printer.

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Slow and unreliable, March 16, 2006

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Richard R. Wilk (Bloomington, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon BJC-85 Portable Color Bubble Jet Printer (Office Product)

I have had this printer for almost four years now, and while it has saved my bacon on the road a number of times, it has also really let me down at some crucial moments. First, like a lot of older Canon printers, it is noisy and slow. It takes forever to get started on a page. But also like a lot of canons, when it is working right the output is beautiful.
But you cannot count on finding ink cartridges for this printer on the road. It also has a weird and unpleasant ink cartridge system which includes two very different little trays, and three different kinds of tank.
But what made me finally leave the thing in a hotel room was its tendency to get halfway through a print job and jam or inexplicably give an error signal. I have spent hours trying to get a clean copy of a single transparency. Very frustrating.