Customer Reviews

Canon BJC 8200 Color Bubble Jet Photo Printer

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I have been a Canon fan for over 4 years. My previous pinter was a BJC-6000. It was awesome...but the BJC-8200 is so much nicer...especially with color gradation. I will admit that the 8200 didn't print the colors as I expected but with some color matching using Adobe Photoshop it is now tweaked to perfection. The output is amazing...even under magnification. Nice and quiet, too. It is also very conservative on ink consumption and the 6 individual ink tanks make it very nice for printing a bunch of prints with a high percentage of one color (close-up of a bright yellow tulip). Just replace the yellow tank when it gets low instead of throwing away three colors with most other printers. Buy it!

This Canon BJS-8200 is an excellent printer with lots of nice features than other popular brands.

Pro: 1) most importantly, it prints excellent quality pictures 2) 6 separate ink tanks really make the operation cheaper, and it consumes very little ink. 3) the see-through ink tank is also a good idea, you know which color has consumed most so you can purchase a spare in advance. 4) better resolution, 1200x1200 dpi (1.44 dots/sq-inch), in comparison to 1440x720 dpi (1.0368 dots/sq-inch) in others 5) with both parallel and USB connection is a plus

Con: 1) maybe a little slow in high quality print mode, but not by alot 2) If I just print 4"x6" pictures, I have to waste all the other area of 8"x11" papers because the software that comes with the printer does not let you print multiple pictures on one sheet of paper. High quality photo paper is still expensive - althought the price has came down alot recently, so I want to layout multiple pictures of different sizes on one sheet of paper to be printed (I heard HP printer comes with software to let you layout the pictures on a 8"x11" paper).

After trying many other printers from 99.99 up to 299.99, and most of the time feeling ripped off after trying it and it not performing as expected, and purchasing expensive ink carts. I found this Canon BJC8200. I can say now that I feel I have a fine all around printer excellent text, excellent photo, six seperate ink carts. no longer will I be forced to purchase an expensive cartrige because I ran out of one color, at around 8.00 each I don't mind replacing the ones needed for my BJC8200. This is not a fast printer, if you are looking for quality like I was then purchase a Canon BJC8200, its worth the short wait.

Just received the printer last week, and all I can say is WOW. Amazing quality. Using the Canon Photo Paper Pro paper, you get amazing detail. The pictures look like they came from a developer. I printed an 11.5 by 7 picture that I took on my Olympus 3000 picture and it came beautifully. My friends didn't believe that I printed it myself. They all thought I had order an enlargement.

The 6 individual tanks are a great concept. When I run out of one color, just replace that color. This should save a lot of money in the long run.

The box contains a bonus card read for memory cards and a package of Canon Pro Paper. The card read works perfectly. I used it to copy my pictures from my camera to the computer (just as good as the SansDisk reader).

The speed is a little slow, but is made up for in the quality. Plus, a cable to connect to a computer is not included. Luckily, I had a spare parallel cable hanging around (not sure how much that effected the printing speed). In the mean time, I ordered an USB cable from Amazon, which should help a little.

Let's be honest. An inkjet printer will NOT take the place of a trusty 35mm print. But for everyone out there who loves to play with the pictures and crop, cut, and do everything to a picture just to get that right "look", there's just something downright addictive with digital phtography. I tried a Hewlett Packard, and while I had good success with them before in the laser department, their 970Cse had some severe driver problems. Canon is more known for their cameras than printers, but so far the BJC-8200 has been more reliable and less crash prone. Now, let's be reasonable. When you work with images that are up to 100Mb in size with a humble stock desktop, trying to print them out is asking for trouble. Nevertheless, I found the image quality on glossy photo paper, not bad at all. Comparable to a real photograph. (after 6 cups of coffee and aiming the camera with my eyes closed-but no worse than most digital photos) Plain paper quality is no better or worse than a sub $200 inkjet, so find what your needs are before you consider one of these. One final thing I liked about this is the 6 seperate ink catridges for 6 colors. Most other color inkjet printers only work with 4 colors and 3 of them are in one cartridge. Which means if you run low on one color, you have to buy a whole new cartridge, whereas you only have to buy individual color cartridges for the Canon. Of course you can just refill the cartridge with special inkjet refill kits, but using one sometimes voids a printers warranty. The 6 colors should in theory give a better image, but I didn't really notice any improvement. I'm just glad it works.

I researched inkjet printers to help print digital photos off my new Olympus 3030. I felt the 8200 with the 6 ink feature was my best bet and I was right. The printer installed in literally 10 minutes from the time I opened the box. I'm no computer whiz, but it was truly a "no-brainer". Very clear instructions, easy set-up. I was printing in 15 minutes. The quality is superb. I remain impressed with the differentiation of colors. So far, they are all true to form. I am recommending this printer. I have friends with others and I would say my Canon beats what I've seen.

This printer is excellent.

I am using it with windows 2000 (for which the setup is a little messy and none of the distributed software installs) and a Canon S100. I use ULead's PhotoExplorer 6.0 (freeware) for printing 4 pics on a 8x11.

The print depends heavily on the paper being used; with the best quality print being gained from the Canon Photo Pro paper that comes with the printer. The print is indistinguishable from a photo ! Especially if you do some software trickery of resampling the image to a higher resolution.

One noticeable problem is that the pictures are a little washed out. The Photo Optimizer setting makes the picture a little darker (puts more black) and gives the illusion of greater detail.

The printer is also very slow ! But that doesnt really bother me.

Otherwise the printer is VERY economical to run especially with Best Buy's buy 2 cartridges get 3rd free !

I purchased the Canon BJC-8200 several months ago and i fell in love with it. Often you buy a product and it does not live up to the manufacturers claims. This printer does. The picture quality even at maximum elargement is , in a word, fantastic. I have a mid-range non professional digital camera and the printer produced outstanding professional looking copies. I took some pictures of a friends wedding and sent the pictures to them, they were thrilled with the prints. They could not believe this quality from a home printer. I believe at any price you wont find a better product. The separate Ink cartridges, a must for anyone. It flat out saves money. The ease of use, incredible. I am no pro, but you would never believe that if you saw the prints from this product. Look no further, buy this, you will be happy with it.

I specifically wanted this printer for photos and the quality is certainly very good. However, the inks used by Canon have very little UV protection and are susceptible to fading fairly quickly in a sunlit room. Otherwise, I had some minor installation problems and the printer is on the slow side, especially compared to my Lexmark. The Canon has superior color accuracy and it is a pleasure not to have to pay $(...)+ for ink refills. I would not recommend it for daily black and white typing duties, but for photos it is a superior product.

My brother bought a Canon BJC-8200, five years ago, and after a while he outgrew it and passed it onto me. It's amazing that a printer that was created in 2000 can produce pictures (and regular documents) with such a high quality even by 2005 standards. It amazes me that in the time that I've used this printer, I've gone through 3 different computers. I figured it was about time that I sang it's praises.

The most indispensable (and money saving) feature of this printer, is the separate ink cartridges. It blows my mind that to this day printers are produced that use all-in-one color cartidges, making you replace an entire color cartridge if you just run out of just the magenta ink. Even if you don't buy this printer, this feature should be a requirement in whichever printer you do buy. Also, this printer is durable and produces very high quality prints.

There are a couple of drawbacks. The printer is a bit slower than the newer models that are available. It also doesn't support direct memory card and digital camera printing. Realistically though, I don't know one person that uses this feature on their printers as most prefer to adjust and crop the pictures on their computer before printing.

The printer wasn't expensive when it was first released, and you can see that you can now pick up a used one for the price of a couple of tickets to a movie. Not a bad purchase for people on an extremely tight budget that want to print photos at home.