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

List Price: $168.92

Features:

• Eight-ppm black
• Five-ppm color
• 1440-by-720 dpi color and black printing, laser-like quality
• Large individual ink tanks
• USB, Mac OS, and network compatible

Accessories:
Canon BCI-3eBk Black Ink Tank Twin Pack (4479A003-Bundle)	Belkin F2A046-10 IEEE 1284 A-B Parallel Printer Cable (10-FT)	Monster Cable MP AV600 Power Protector	Monster PC700 Computer PowerCenter¿ with Surge Protection	Canon 1029A004 Photo Paper Pro for BJC-8200 (8.5inx11in, 15 Sheets )

Customer Reviews:

Thank goodness its been discontinued [Posted on 2002-11-30]
At first everything worked fine, then it stopped feeding paper. I took it to a repair shop and it never worked the same. It was a constant source of frustration. Finally I just beat it to death.

Very versatile Printer [Posted on 2003-01-15]
The BJC 6000 really gives nice looking text and does a good job on photos even without the optional photo cartridge. I have produced some really stunning digital photos using their photo cartridge. One nice thing is the separate ink tanks. This allows the user to replace only the color you run out of instead of having to can the entire cartridge. I have used compatibles with this printer for some time and personally I can tell no difference in the result. While Canon brand cartridges can be a little pricey (they are too proud of their stuff), compatibles makes this a very economical printer to own. The software that comes on the install disk is also first class, especially if you plan to use it for pictures. I have also used this for banners and T-shirts and really had the fun with it.

Three years with the Canon BJC6000 [Posted on 2003-06-02]
i've had my canon bjc-6000 for three years now. as of today, it's finally crapped out on me. i have tried everything to fix it (performed all the maintenance, cleaning, etc.) and nothing. so, i've opted to buy a canon i850, which i've heard good things about.

so, for the three years it DID work, here's my thoughts:

PROS: individual ink tanks! for ANYONE who does even a marginal amount of printing, you should invest in a printer with ind. ink tanks - it's just common sense. i can't understand why other printer companies haven't followed suit on this kind of thing. i definately got my money's worth out of the 6000. i have printed hundreds of photos that looked pretty darn good, even without the optional photo ink cartridges. keep in mind, i've had nothing to compare them to. :) it has a lot of options to print your documents/photos, etc., so for the advanced user, or just a regular user, interface is pretty easy to use.

CONS: color photo printing in highest resolution mode takes FOREVER; about 8 mins to print a page with two 4x6 prints on it. so, it's not the fastest printer, by any means. and, it's noisy, too. it cleans the print heads all the time, and while printing, actually shakes the monitor and desk hutch it's sitting on. yowza! for general purpose printing, i would recommend using good paper and something other than the "auto" setting.

overall, it's been a great printer, but it's time to move on to newer and better technology! my biggest piece of advice to anyone buying a printer: get one with individual ink tanks! it's just common sense!

Good printer by all means [Posted on 2003-07-14]
I bought the BJC 6000 in mid of 1999 ... I am happy I invested so much money on it. It work very well. With the photo ink and top photo paper, I can have close to real prints. All the limitation is the image itself. The money I spent on inks has exceed the [amount] for the printer itself.

The interface was in parallel, so some of my observation may not apply for USB version. The first page is always fast, but the next one will have to wait, and wait (For what?). That is the only cons I found and complain about. The speed is kind of slow at top quality, hey, that is acceptable. :)

The individual ink is a big plus. I found myself changing yellow more frequently then the other two.

Finally, the i850 seems to use the same inks as the BJC6000, which means i850 can't exceed the quality on the horizon direction.

Its a nice printer [Posted on 2004-09-07]
But over time the quality of the pictures printed seemed to drop. Nice printer while it lasted though. Although compared to the printers of today its slow and has no USB port so you'd be better off without it anyway.

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