Canon BJC 3000 Color Bubble Jet Printer

List Price: $149.00

Features:

• Bubble Jet printer for black, color, and photo printing
• 1,440 x 720 resolution in color or B&W
• Parallel and USB ports, Mac and PC compatible
• Large individual ink tanks, optical low-ink sensor
• 100-sheet paper feed

Accessories:
Canon BCI-3eBk Black Ink Tank Twin Pack (4479A003-Bundle)	Canon BCI-3BK Black Ink Tank	Belkin F2A046-10 IEEE 1284 A-B Parallel Printer Cable (10-FT)	Canon IS-32 Color Image Scanner Cartridge	Canon 1029A004 Photo Paper Pro for BJC-8200 (8.5inx11in, 15 Sheets )

Customer Reviews:

Great little printer! [Posted on 2000-11-05]
I've used HP Deskjet printers for years and just recently decided to upgrade. My son needs a color printer so he got the HP-693c and I bought a Canon BJC-3000. My biggest complaint about the HP's was the single color cartridge - run out of one color and you have to throw the entire cartridge away. Not so with the BJC-3000.

I've had good results with the graphics and printed some photo-quality images using Kodak InkJet photo paper. You have to do some adjustments of the settings to get things right, but the results are very good once that is done.

The major complaint I have is the noise coming out of this thing! It isn't bad while printing, but during initialization and after printer a few sheets, it goes into a mode where it sounds like it is coming apart. All ink jet printers do this, but this one is especially noisy.

ok but not worth the money [Posted on 2001-12-28]
i have had this printer for almost 3 years and have not been happy. The color is not very good at all, It is extremly loud, and shakes so bad it rocks my hole desk!! Not good at all if you want to print pictures unless they are really tiny( bad resolution) the cannon site is hard to find support and when you do there is no infomation that helps which means you have to call tech supprt and you know what fun that can be!! Which i did and after staying on hold for a hour they hung up on me!!
Get an epson. comparable prices for better quality...that is what i did and am glad i did it!!

There is a defect with BJC-3000! [Posted on 2002-01-17]
I bought this printer about a year ago, and it worked OK except large noise (even not in printing). The printer started working abnormally since last week. Every time I clicked "print", the computer was forced to restart and "printing" was stopped in the middle. I checked all relevant softwears, as well as tech support from Canon, and didn't find anything wrong. In the end, I gave up. I bought an Epson printer, and it works great in my computer.

BJC 3000 printer is a tremendous value [Posted on 2002-10-16]
I think some of the reviews for this printer are misleading. For the money, this is a terrific printer. It is very versatile and prints at a nice speed with exceptional resolution for a 1440 dpi inkjet printer. Higher resolution for most people is not needed because their eyes are not that good. This printer does a very acceptible job on photos and can not be beat for nice clear crisp text. You can spend three or four time the money on other printers and not get what you get with a BJC 3000. Canon consistently produces fine products. Worth every dollar.

It prints... but it could be better [Posted on 2003-03-28]
The main drawback of this printer is Canon's design for getting ink to the print head. Because the ink has to seep through a sponge to get to the print head, the amount of ink flow is limited. For instance, if you were to print something that had, say, heavy black in one area, it would print okay for the first few lines, but much more than that and it'll start leaving blank streaks across your paper where there wasn't enough ink to feed the print head... effectively ruining your print. Also, it seems that the print heads get dirty quickly, as I have to run the print head cleaning program about once every two weeks.

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