Canon BJC-50 Inkjet Printer

The Canon BJC-50 inkjet printer is a compact and portable printer for users on the go. The BJC-50 has an extremely small and compact size and weighs in at a little over 2 pounds. The shoe box sized printer can connect to a PC or MAC via a parallel port or infrared adaptor and also comes with a battery for maximum portability. Print quality wise the BJC-50’s 720 x 360 dpi prints are surprisingly fair. The text and the graphics are clear and sharp enough for standard printing, although more important jobs should go to desktop printers. The printing speed is expectably slow with about a max speed of 5 pages per minute. The printer can use either a tricolor (BC-11e) or an exclusively black (BC-10) ink cartridge, but you have to manually swap between the two. Another manual operation to note is the feeding of the paper, which could get tricky for some. Overall, however, the Canon BJC-50 is a fairly successful attempt at a truly portable inkjet printing solution.