The only ones that have failed (3) since (the printer that is) were damaged by a power surge or voltage spike (1 ?) or by the user plugging in or unplugging the parallel cable while the computer was running (2 ? – the same guy twice for sure- duh ! ). I have rescued maybe a half dozen or more of them from being thrown out and gave them to mostly people who had not much money to spare. The BJ-2xx and BJC-2xx series at least could do that in Dos too. Most of the models if not all of them can be set in their Properties to power on automatically for a print job and shut off after xx minutes of inactivity automatically. The Canon drivers for them for ME / 98SE and 98 / 95 ? are better than the ones built into Windows but they can’t be used in XP, and probably 2000. I have refilled the black cartridges for the 2xx and 4xxx series many times, getting as many as 12 refills before the print head on them gave out. The BJ-2xx and BJC-2xx and BJC-4xxx series are extremely reliable, although I stopped using the silly color / black cartridges for the color print head in my BJC-4400 long ago and use only the BC-20 black cartridge for it. You have to do that for any parallel connected printer it has drivers for because they’re not Plug-n-Play detectable. The drivers for that are built into XP but you have to manually select them.
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