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Newcastle Herald

Monday July 27, 1998

CANON has announced that it will release the world's smallest portable printer next month.

The BJC-50 colour Bubble Jet takes an optional cartridge that can turn it into a colour scanner.

It also has an infra-red interface that will save harried notebook-toting travellers the frustration of untangling cables in strange hotel rooms.

Road warriors won't even have to sacrifice the bedside lamp to get a power outlet. The BJC-50 has a built-in rechargeable battery that will print up to 100 A4 pages between top-ups.

The new printer weighs 900 grams and is 302mm wide, 112.5mm deep and 49mm high, which gives it a footprint roughly half the size of a sheet of A4 paper. Canon says it will spit out up to 5.5 pages a minute in black-and-white or 2.1 a minute in colour.

Swapping the ink cartridge for the scanner cartridge ($149) allows documents fed into the printer to be scanned in colour at 360 dots-per-inch. Road-warriors will like this feature because it allows them to add a modem and fax documents while staying within reach of the minibar.

The BJC-50 will sell for $699.

© 1998 Newcastle Herald

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