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Canon BJC-6000 Color Printer
by By Clarke Bird—January, 2000 PC Alamode Magazine , pcalamode@worldnet.att.net - June 16, 2000 at 12:16:05:
My wife and I had been thinking about buying a color inkjet printer for some time. We would browse the stores and push the “print” button on various color printers to see a test print page — and frankly, this year, we were more impressed with the color output of several printers than ever before. Even so, I’m not convinced that today’s (affordable, meaning less than $300) color inkjet printers do a good job of reproducing color photographs — but they’re getting close.Now, I need to tell you up front that I’m a Hewlett Packard brand diehard fan and I was consistently leading my wife to the HP printer display in each store. I’ve talked to numerous color inkjet printer owners to get their opinion—and to a person, each one thought he had chosen the “best” printer. No help there. I’ve read numerous articles on color inkjet side-by-side comparisons and the one thing I came away with was to look for a printer with separate color ink cartridges.
We finally found what we were looking for in the Canon BJC6000 Bubble Jet printer: It was priced at $189.87, less a $50 Canon rebate coupon, for a very affordable final cost of $139.87 with four separate ink cartridges for black, cyan, magenta and yellow colors and excellent 8 ppm printing speed for black and 5 ppm for color
My first color printing test was on our Christmas cards. Using WordPerfect’s merge capabilities, I merged our Christmas card address list onto an envelope document, chose black for our return address and green (in 30 point type) for the addressee and let fly. One after another, my envelopes went through the printer without a hitch. I couldn’t help but think of our card as “That’s a nice presentation.”
Our next project was “personalizing” the inside of each card. Again, using WordPerfect, I created a document page the same size as the inside of the card and picking a blank area at the top of the card, I merged the first names of our Christmas list to this spot. We chose red for the color and picked a nice holiday font sized similar to the existing message inside the card.
A real test of the new printer was our decision to include a recent photo of Marilyn and I along with Paige and Christopher, our grown children at the bottom of the inside message. The photo size was only 2" x 3", just large enough to fit the available area but small enough so that our wrinkles wouldn’t show to all our friends. The cardstock was smooth and hard enough to accept the ink perfectly although we did have to separate the just-printed page so that the still-wet ink didn’t smear.
Printer details
• Individual ink tanks for each color allow replacement when one color runs out rather than replacing the entire color cartridge as in the majority of other color inkjet printers.
• A built-in optical low-ink sensor warns with an on-screen message when a specific ink tank is low so that you never run out of ink before printing a big job.
• Number of nozzles: BC-30 Black cartridge - 160 nozzles; BC-3l Color cartridge (CMY) - 48X3 nozzles.
• Print resolution for both color and black is 1440 X 720 dpi.
• The BJC-6000 comes bundled with Canon Creative Pro software, which consists of numerous customizable templates with built-in graphics libraries — to quickly create business and marketing materials. The CD also contains Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition and Design Essentials Office in Color.
Canon Computer Systems, 2995 Redhill Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92626 www.ccsi.cannon.com.
Canon printers can be found at Best Buy, CompUSA, Office Max and Office Depot and Sam’s Club.
Clarke Bird is a doting grandfather who can’t wait to start sending silly, but colorful, cards to his grandkids using his new printer.
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