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Title:

How to Use your Canon BubbleJet BJC-250 Printer.

Audience:

The intended audience of this manual is all users of the Bubble Jet printer.

Also people wanting to decide whether this type of printer meets their needs.

Concepts:

BubbleJet printer - An ink jet type printer that heats the ink to a boiling point in a nozzle to form a bubble. When the bubble expands there is no room left in the nozzle for the ink and the ink is projected onto the paper.

Why choose a BubbleJet printer?

Compare to Ink Jet, Daisy Wheel, Fiery, and Typeset Printing

 

BJ cartridge - The cartridge that contains the print head and ink.

Printer Driver - The software that sends printing instructions to the printer.

Print head - The printing mechanism that contains print nozzles and ejects the ink for printing.

Protective materials - .

Parallel cable -

Procedures:

Unpacking the printer

  1. Remove all items from the box.
  2. Remove all shipping tape and protective materials from the printer.

Hooking up the printer.

  1. Plug in the printer with the AC adapter.
  2. Connect the printer to the computer with a parallel cable.

 

Installing the BJ Cartridge.

  1. Open the front of the printer
  2. Locate the BJ cartridge holder on the right side of the printer.
  3. Ensure that the green lock lever on the cartridge holder is up.
  4. Slide the BJ cartridge onto the yellow mounting base with the print head face down.
  5. Press the green lock lever down until it locks in place.
  6. Close the front cover.

Installing the printer driver.

Using Windows95.

Using Windows 3.1

Reference Section:

Tables:

Paper Size

Letter 8.5 in x11 in
Legal 8.5 in x14 in
A4 210 mm x 297 mm
A5 148 mm x 210 mm
B5 182 mm x 257 mm
Banner 8.5 in x11 in sheets, maximum length 66 in
U.S. Commercial number 10 envelope 9.5 in x 4.1 in
European DL envelope 220 mm x 110 mm

Printer Driver Settings

To achieve Print quality Color Model Results
Fastest B&W output possible Draft

180 x 180 dpi

 Monochrome Uses less ink. Output quality is draft.
Fast letter quality output Standard

360 x 360 dpi

 Monochrome Slightly slower than draft. Quality is standard.
Fast B&W photograph and graphic output Standard and Smoothing

360 x 360 dpi

 Monochrome Slower than B&W but better grayscale quality.
High quality photograph and graphic output High and Smoothing

720 x 360 dpi

 Monochrome Slower than Standard but optimizes B&W grayscale quality. (Requires BC-02 Black BJ cartridge.)
Fast color output Draft

180 x 180 dpi

 Color Uses less ink. Output quality is draft.
Color output Standard

360 x 360 dpi

 Color Fast Color printing but quality is not optimized.
High Quality color output High

360 x 360 dpi

 Color Optimizes color print quality but the print speed is slower
Photo-realistic color printing 360 x 360 dpi Photo Color Produces photo realistic color printing. (Requires BC-06 Photo BJ Cartridge and High Resoolution Paper HR-101 or Glossy Photo paper GP-201.)

Printer Settings for Print Media

Media Paper Thickness Lever Paper Feed Method Paper Feed Limit (Sheets)
Plain paper Left Auto Approx 100 (0.4 in stack)
Glossy Photo Paper GP-201 Right Auto or Manual 1
Banner Paper Right Auto 1
High Resolution Paper HR-101 Left Auto Approx 80 (0.4 in stack)
T-Shirt Transfers TR-101 Right Auto or Manual 1
Greeting Cards GC-101 Right Manual 1
Bubble Jet paper LC-301 Left Auto Approx 100 (0.4 in stack)
Fabric sheet FS-101 Right Auto or Manual 1
Cf-102 Transparencies Left Auto 50
Black Print Film BF-102 Left Auto 10
High Gloss Film HG-101 Left Manual 1
Other heavier-weight print media Right Manual 1
Envelopes

Single

Stack

 Right

Right

 Manual

Auto

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Glossary:

Websites with more info about BubbleJet Printers

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