Jan 24, 2001 05:14 PM
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I have used the BJC-1000SP for more than 1 year. It's very small, silent, yet very rugged. I print atleast 25 pages every day, and it hasn't given me any problem so far. Sometimes I print 100 pages a day, without any glitch. Haven't had a paper-jam even once!
It's best feature is that at any time, only 1 cartridge is usable : either B&W or color. So, if you are using it in your office, and if you don't want your employees to use-up a color-cartridge, just remove the color-cartridge and insert the B&W cartridge. So there's no way your color-costs can go up.
The downside to this is that when you do want to print in color, you have to remove the B&W cartridge and insert the color-cartridge; besides, the blacks in your picture won't print as pitch-blackl they'll be dark-greenish.
It's B&W cartridge (BC-03) gives me 200 pages of high-quality output or 400 pages of economy output. Cost of the cartridge is Rs.825/-. In contrast, the capacity of it's color-cartridge (BC-05) is pathetic; for a full-color A4-size page (containing lots of saturated colors), expect no more than 3 pages before one of the colors runs out! At Rs.1,200/- per cartridge, that godamm expensive. And since all the 3 colors are sealed in a single cartridge, you have no choice but to throw away the cartridge even though one or two of the remaining colors are still there. Ofcourse, you can get the cartridge refilled for Rs.150/-, but the outputs will never be as good. On the other hand, refilling the black cartridge (for Rs.100/-) gives very good results. Unfortunately, I discovered that only 1 shop in Andheri (Allwyn Stationery Mart) is capable of refilling it. All other shops (including the ones at Lamington Road) refuse to refil it. That's because it takes special skills to refil it.
All in all, this is a good printer if you're low on budget (Rs.4,100/-), cramped for space (it is really a very small, compact size), print no more than 50 pages-a-day and most of your printouts are B&W.
A better printer though is the Canon BJC-2100SP, which has a 2-cartridge setup, thus avoiding swapping of cartridges. But your colleagues will empty the color-cartridge by printing a couple of Cindy Crawford photos; and will feign innocense when you question why the cartridge ran out so soon. If however you'll be the sole user of the printer, by all means buy the BJC-2100SP. At Rs.4,900/-, it's only marginally costlier.
