Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good price on the cartridge
Comment: Good buy from Amazon on the cartridge.
However, Canon has a cash cow here. The cartridge lasts for maybe 5 tank changes before it must be replaced. Add the cost of the cartridge to the cost of the tanks and soon, it's time to start thinking about replacing the Canon printer with one that isn't as expensive to maintain.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Colour is everything
Comment: A good Canon product that has been around for over 10 years, and has still kept pace with current technology.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Thanks for Negative Reviews!
Comment: Before I read the reviews here, I was beginning to think it was just me who was having a streak of bad luck with this dog of a product. All of your gripes are right on the mark, including the comment that the exorbitant replacement cost makes this a total scam. Thank you all very much -- you've done a good public service deed! Now I'll be dumping my crappy Canon all-in-one and buying another brand.
I have another sad story about an expensive Canon digital camera with a defect that was too expensive to repair -- but I'll save that for another time and place.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't Waste Your $$ On this cartridge!!!
Comment: I have 2 BJC 2000 printers, one I bought new several years ago, & the other at the thrift shop for two bucks. I can't say enough about how good the actual printers have been for me, but I could cough up enough profanity to make a biker blush about the BC-21e printhead cartridge! Not a very reliable product at all!
The small capacity of the colour cartridge is terrible. The black is okay. I hadn't had more than 3 sets of refills before the printhead quit.
The price of the replacement BC-21e was as much or more than the price of another printer.
Canon makes the Apple Stylewriter printers 2400 & 2500, which look just like a BJC 2000.
I eventually replaced the whole thing with a BC-20 Black only integral printhead cartridge, made for the Apple printers... a whole lot cheaper & they work great, refill easily, but no colour.
They probably won't print this, but don't waste your hard earned cash on these overpriced, overrated cartridges. Next colour printer I buy will probably not be a Canon...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Printerhead failures
Comment: I read some of the other reviews. I've had my printer for several years. I hardly use it. I am surprised that so many users have problems with the printhead. By God, I am having problems too. Low use and after less than 3 tanks the head is dead. I think I paid $30 for it in a drugstore with a mail-in rebate. It's hard for me to shell-out $50 for a new head when the whole damn thing cost less than that. Guess I wont. Thanks guys.... Oh, anyone want to buy it? (...). Like new.
Summary: Good price on the cartridge
Comment: Good buy from Amazon on the cartridge.
However, Canon has a cash cow here. The cartridge lasts for maybe 5 tank changes before it must be replaced. Add the cost of the cartridge to the cost of the tanks and soon, it's time to start thinking about replacing the Canon printer with one that isn't as expensive to maintain.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Colour is everything
Comment: A good Canon product that has been around for over 10 years, and has still kept pace with current technology.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Thanks for Negative Reviews!
Comment: Before I read the reviews here, I was beginning to think it was just me who was having a streak of bad luck with this dog of a product. All of your gripes are right on the mark, including the comment that the exorbitant replacement cost makes this a total scam. Thank you all very much -- you've done a good public service deed! Now I'll be dumping my crappy Canon all-in-one and buying another brand.
I have another sad story about an expensive Canon digital camera with a defect that was too expensive to repair -- but I'll save that for another time and place.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't Waste Your $$ On this cartridge!!!
Comment: I have 2 BJC 2000 printers, one I bought new several years ago, & the other at the thrift shop for two bucks. I can't say enough about how good the actual printers have been for me, but I could cough up enough profanity to make a biker blush about the BC-21e printhead cartridge! Not a very reliable product at all!
The small capacity of the colour cartridge is terrible. The black is okay. I hadn't had more than 3 sets of refills before the printhead quit.
The price of the replacement BC-21e was as much or more than the price of another printer.
Canon makes the Apple Stylewriter printers 2400 & 2500, which look just like a BJC 2000.
I eventually replaced the whole thing with a BC-20 Black only integral printhead cartridge, made for the Apple printers... a whole lot cheaper & they work great, refill easily, but no colour.
They probably won't print this, but don't waste your hard earned cash on these overpriced, overrated cartridges. Next colour printer I buy will probably not be a Canon...
Customer Rating:
Summary: Printerhead failures
Comment: I read some of the other reviews. I've had my printer for several years. I hardly use it. I am surprised that so many users have problems with the printhead. By God, I am having problems too. Low use and after less than 3 tanks the head is dead. I think I paid $30 for it in a drugstore with a mail-in rebate. It's hard for me to shell-out $50 for a new head when the whole damn thing cost less than that. Guess I wont. Thanks guys.... Oh, anyone want to buy it? (...). Like new.