Canon BJC-6200
Price: AU$399
Distributor: Canon Australia
Ph: 02 9805 2000; Fax: 02 9888 3650
www.canon.com.au
At first glance the 6200 simply looks like a larger version of the 3000 and, in some respects, it is. The styling is the same; paper handling is identical, as are the printer drivers and the pair of parallel and USB ports.
Your really have to -lift the hood", if you pardon the term, to see where the two printers differ. Instead of a single printhead/ink cartridge carrier, the 6200 has a pair of carriers. This bestows on the 6200 a great performance advantage and also more functionality.
The configuration for everyday printing comprises a large black cartridge and printhead (BC-30) in the left carrier and a CMY printhead (BC-31) and individual cartridges in the right-hand carrier. Each of the CMY colours has a 48-nozzle print head, identical to the 3000 but the large black is mated to the 160-nozzle printhead. For photo printing, the user removes the BC-30 printhead from the left carrier and replaces it with the BC-32 printhead (complete with 48-nozzles for each of photo black, photo cyan, and photo magenta).
The 6200 utilises exactly the same ink cartridges as the 3000 and is rated at the same 1440 x 720dpi resolution so it comes as no surprise that ink cartridge life should be similar. In fact, the black cartridge life was a tad higher for the 6200â€"it achieved 480 pages at 5 percent coverage while colour cartridge life was also a little better at 360 pages of 15 percent coverage. As we mentioned in the 3000 review, the colour cost is a bit misleading as you may only need to replace a single cartridge, so in reality the cost per colour page could be around half that calculated, or even less. Black pages are easy to calculate at 6 cents per page, colour works out to 23 per page but we would estimate that 14 would not be unreasonable to expect.
Peak page throughput was identical to the 3000 at 4.8ppm, which is certainly very good for its class, and while average throughput with the complex document took a bit of a tumble it was still a good deal quicker than the 3000 with a score of 0.64ppm. As you may expect, the character formation was identical to the 3000 with quite sharp text and reasonably rich and solid black fills.
Print time for the photo test proved slightly longer than the 3000 with a page speed of 0.16ppm which is nevertheless quite respectable. It's splitting hairs but image quality was also slightly better than the 3000. We found the 6200's skin colours were a little more realistic than the 3000 and at times the dither patterns were slightly less intrusive which may be a function of the fact that the 6200 boasts six ink colours compared to the 3000's four.
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