Pros: Very portable, space saving, quality printing, ease of use.
Cons: Price.

My Grandpa Martin had a famous saying: "Dynamite always comes in small packages." As a child, I always wondered about him saying that; like, what was the point?

Then it hit me. The guy was only 5'6" or something like that! He certainly...

Pros: good quality, durable, reasonable priced
Cons: slow, slow, slow

Are you a road warrior? Have printer will travel.... if you are a laptop user and print frequently on the road and happen to use an Apple product you may have run into the same problems as I have..... a meager selection of printers and poor print...

Pros: Good print quality, scanner option, irDa built in, built in sheet feeder,
Cons: somewhat large especially with the BJC-50 on the market, Canon durability suspect,

Canon is perhaps offering the best selection and best quality portable printers today. The BJC-85 is no exception. Similar in performance to the BJC-50. It is capable of up to 5 pages per minute (ppm) in B&W and up to 2 ppm in color. Also capable...

Pros: Magnificent detail of printing, reasonable price, many features
Cons: Too slow, short life of cartridges

The good quality both monochrome, and color printing with the very attractive price and excellent set of functionality's both printer, and software, enclosed it, makes this model obvious leader for choice of device for a wide range of tasks - from...

Pros: Good clean print. Quality copies. No jams.
Cons: SLOOOOW!

Recently, an ice storm took away the power from my office for over a week. When the lights came back on, I decided that it was necessary to have an office that could run on batteries and go on the road. My solution was to purchase a Compaq Presario...

Pros: An ideal printer for the traveller and so easy to use
Cons: A little slow

I travel alot in my job and needed a printer that would be ideal to carry around with me. The Canon BJC-85 is just that printer!

It is small enough to be portable. Very easy to set up and the instructions are easy to follow - even for the...

Pros: It is light weight and compact and prints well. The scanner option is a cool idea.
Cons: The ink cartridges are small and you must purchase the battery separately.

Finally a portable printer that is compatible with my 1999 G3 Powerbook. This is the only portable printer I could find with USB connections that works with Macintosh. It has done a great job for me so far both in color and black printing. It doesn't...

Pros: Small, Light, Portable
Cons: 9 Minutes to Print a Page

I thought this printer would be a great portable addition to our business, so we can print out faxes from efax, sign them, and fax them back while out of the office. It was lightweight (not as light as the BJC-50 but this was Mac-compatible) and small...

Pros: Good resolution, small, portable
Cons: $300

If you HAVE to have a portable color printer this is a good one to have. It offers 720X360 dpi in both color and black. It has a decent printing speed as well. Offering up to 5 pages per minute in black and up to 2 pages per minute in color, you won't...

Pros: Small, InfaRed compatible
Cons: Not very durable, slow, ink cartridges are too small

I bought the Canon BJC-85 for my laptop thinking a small printer would suit a small laptop very well. I installed the software and got printing in no time. Sadly, time was exactly what is wrong with this printer. It is extremely slow in printing. The...

Pros: Very compact, quiet, decent quality for inexpensive price, and easy to use.
Cons: Frequent paper jams, VERY SLOW, and the ink and cartridges are rather expensive to replace

The Canon Ink-Jet printer has probably as many pros as it does cons. It's small size definitely makes it a worthwhile product and overall it tends to be reasonably reliable. I have had this printer for about 3 years and I have had a few major problems...