Canon BJC-5500 Printer

General

Alternative Drivers

Drivers you can use if the BJC-5500 driver is not available.

• DOS : BJ-200/200e/200ex (BJ Mode/Black)
• DOS : Epson LQ2550 (LQ Mode Colour/Black)

Cartridges

• BC-20 - Black Ink
• BCI-21bk - Black Ink Tank (BC-21)
• BCI-21c - Tri Colour Ink (BC-21)
• BC-21e - Colour Print Head
• BC-22e - Photo Colour
• BC-29f - Fluorescent Ink

Cleaning Print Head

Press and Hold both the Black RESET and Colour RESET buttons until the printer beeps once.

Self Test

Press and hold the MENU button until font disappears from menu. Press and Hold PWDADJ or REVADJ buttons until the number 1 is displayed. Press the MENU button to start test.

Known Issues

Black Page When Printing Faxes

If when you print a fax, it comes out as a solid black page, go into the printer's properties and set the printer to Mono.

Printing Squashed or Running off Right Hard Side of Page

If your printing is either squashed down the left hand side of the page, or that it runs off the right hand edge of the page the cause is down to the printer not detecting the right colour cartridge in the printer.

What you need to do is go into the Properties for the printer, then into the Graphics tab, and in the Colour Model section, change the setting from Colour to Photo Colour (if it is already set to Photo Colour, change it to Colour).

It might also be worth turning on Cartridge Detection as well.

Error Codes