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Canon BJC-55

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Mobile connoisseurs con take their pick from a seemingly endless procession of notebook PCs and a score of portable projectors, but a printer that you can take on the road is far from commonplace.
This update to Canon’s popular BJC-5O model is the first portable printer APC has seen that lacks the conventional parallel port. The BJC-55 relies solely on USB and infra-red, which at least makes it compatible with most of the latest Macs (both notebooks and desktops), as well as Windows boxes. If you have a Windows CE or Pocket PC device, you can get hard copy from your handheld over the IR beam.
As is the case with most printers, no connecting cable is supplied. This is a constant source of frustration.
The size of the BJC-55’s print cartridges means that individual colours cannot be replaced. It will take individual black, colour and photo ink cartridges, so there’s still a reasonable amount of flexibility.
With portable printers, there’s always a trade-off between the size and the function of the printer. With a printer this small, there’s no supplied paper feed tray,
which means that pages must be handled individually. A 30-page feeder is available separately, but APC was unable to review one. Page-by-page printing is annoying for any document larger than
about four pages.
As with many printers in Canon’s range, you can purchase a scanner head for the BJC-55. Snap it in where the print head usually goes and you can use the printer as a scanner.
For such a small printer, it requires quite a bit of desk space, as the absence of a tray means that pages must be laid flat for printing. Pages feed automatically into the printer, but during the tests, the printing application then had to be told that paper was, indeed, in the printer.
As could be expected, the print speeds on the BJC-55 weren’t spectacular, but to its credit, it was relatively quiet while printing. APC did encounter problems with getting the printer to acknowledge that the photo printer cartridge (and not the colour) was inserted, which could be annoying if you need high-quality printing quickly.
The BJC-55 doesn’t offer a great deal extra for owners of the BJC-50 and 85 models, apart from the photo printing and Windows CE options. For anyone
else, the BJC-55 is an excellent portable colour printer.

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