Monday, March 21, 2005
Canon BJC 4300 Printer Review and InkJet Cartridges
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Important Printer Buying Tip: ALWAYS check for the ink cartridge prices before you purchase a printer. Why? Sometimes cheaper printers end up costing more because its ink cartridges may be way expensive. You should calculate the "cost of ownership" per month. The math is simple: (number of prints per month) times (cost of the cartridge) divided by (the yield of the cartridge). Yield is the number of pages that can be printed with one particular cartridge. For example, assume that average home user prints 150 black pages per month using a black cartridge that yields 200 pages and costs $28. The monthly "cost of ownership" is (150 pages) x ($28) = $21 200 pages Also look at the printer ink alternatives; besides the original manufacturer's cartridges (OEMs), you may have the selection of remanufactured cartridges, compatible ink cartridges, and ink refill kits. |
Below is the list of BJC 4300 compatible printer ink cartridges:
) OEM #: BCI21BK Color: Black Yield: 200 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI21C Color: Color Yield: 200 pages |
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) OEM #: BC20 Color: Black Yield: 900 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI21B/BCI21C Color: Set |
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) OEM #: BCI21BK/BCI24BK Color: White |
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) OEM #: BCI21C Color: White |
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) OEM #: BCI21C/BCI24C Color: White |
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) OEM #: BC20 Color: Black Yield: 900 pages |
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) OEM #: BC21e Color: Color Yield: 4,000 pages |
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) OEM #: BC22e Color: Photo Color Yield: 90 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI21BK Color: Black Yield: 200 pages |
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) OEM #: BCI21C Color: Color Yield: 200 pages |
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Detailed Specs (Canon BJC 4300 ):
Product Description for BJC 4300 (From the Manufacturer, Canon)
Black Page When Printing Faxes
If when you print a fax, it comes out as a solid black page, go into the printer's properties and set the printer to Mono.
Printing Squashed or Running off Right Hard Side of Page
If your printing is either squashed down the left hand side of the page, or that it runs off the right hand edge of the page the cause is down to the printer not detecting the right colour cartridge in the printer.
What you need to do is go into the Properties for the printer, then into the Graphics tab, and in the Colour Model section, change the setting from Colour to Photo Colour (if it is already set to Photo Colour, change it to Colour).
Scanner Print Head
If you get a problem whereby you get a General Protection Fault when the Screensaver starts, after you've installed the Scanner Software, the problem is with the software driver for the scanner head. Download the latest driver from Canon's Website. The version that definitely causes the problem is version 1.10.
Problems with Cartridge Detection
- Power off the printer
- Unplug the printer's power cord, wait 5 seconds then replug the power cord in.
- Hold the Power button for 6 Beeps
- Release the Power Button
This will reset the printer and should resolve incorrect cartridge detection problems.
Error Message : "Internal Error: Colour Adjustment Method will not be available".
Whenever you try to print you get the above message. If you press OK, it prints, but if you press Cancel it says you don't have enough memory to use the printer's driver. The solution is to update the printer's drivers to version 3.93 or higher. The drivers should be available from Canon's Website. Remember to uninstall the previous driver before updating.
When an image is scanned, it prints 4 times bigger then the page
This happens when you are using PAINT to print from. Use the software that came with the scanner or use any graphical/Desk Top Publishing software.
Compressed Printing when using Photo Cartridge
When using an BC-22 ink cartridge, printing is compressed by 50% horizontally. Settings used are Colour Model = Photo and Print Quality = High.
The BC-22 ink cartridge will only print properly when Print Quality is set to Standard. The BC-22 has since been discontinued and replaced with the BC-22e, which will print properly when Print Quality is set to High.
This printer model is not being manufactured by Canon any more
PC WORLD.com Editors' review:
VITAL STATS: 5-ppm monochrome, 2-ppm color ink jet; 720-by-360-dpi maximum resolution; 100 sheets input, 100 output. This new midrange model from Canon went straight to the top of our chart this month to become our new number-one color Best Buy. Cheaper (by $80) and faster at printing text (by about 35 percent) than its predecessor the BJC-4200, which was number three on our August chart, the BJC-4300 gives you the biggest bang for your buck of any color printer here. It--and not the new BJC-250--really should be Canon's entry-level system. At $199, the Canon BJC-4300 costs a mere $20 more than the BJC-250 but is built around a design that allows it to print true black and true four-color graphics.
The BJC-4300 does a charming job on color documents, printing edges clearly and revealing details that three-color printers would smother. We are also impressed by the BJC-4300's subtle and lifelike grayscales. Text quality? It's typical ink jet fare-not spectacular but certainly acceptable. Letters show slight jaggies, and tight corners start to fill in, but they are free of shadowing and spatter. Lines seem to be the printer's weak spot, with too much variation in weight.Like most other recent Canon printers, the BJC-4300's driver provides predefined settings for photos, graphics, and other document types, and a "set-up analyzer" that confirms your choices of paper type, image type, print quality, and so on. You can also customize and save driver configurations for special types of documents, such as sepia-toned photographs. The BJC-4300 also supports the $99 IS-22 Color Image Scanner cartridge that pops into the printhead's place, which turns your printer into a scanner. And, like most Canon printers, the BJC-4300's manual is an outstanding source of insight, with excellent explanations of how to get the best results from the driver and the many kinds of surfaces the printer supports, such as fabric, T-shirt transfers, glossy photo paper, banners, and specialty inks.We clocked the BJC-4300's text printing at 1.9 ppm--that's slower than most ink jets on our chart, but considerably faster than the BJC-4200. The BJC-4300 prints graphics at 3/10 page per minute, the same as most other ink jets.
The BJC-4300 comes with a fairly standard one-year limited warranty and a toll-free number, but once the year is up, each support call costs you a steep $24.95.
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