Canon BJ-230 Assembling the Printer, Installing the Ink Cartridge, Ink cartridge holder

Ink cartridge holder

Allows you to install the ink cartridge (as described later in this chapter).

Paper thickness lever

Identifies the thickness of your paper. The setting you choose adjusts the distance between the print head and the paper. There are two settings: left for normal paper and right for thick paperor envelopes. (After you remove the tape that protects this lever during shipping, slide the lever to the left.)

Assembling the Printer

Now that you are familiar with the components of your printer, you are ready to install the printer and connect it to your computer. The first step is to install the ink cartridge.

Installing the Ink Cartridge

You use the BC-02 ink cartridge with this printer. Each ink cartridge can print about 400 to 500 letter-size pages (700,000 characters) in HQ mode and 800 to 1000 pages (1,400,000 characters) in HS mode. The actual amount varies according to the print density of a page. If you print a lot of graphics, you may need to change cartridges more often.

CAUTION: Canon makes numerous ink cartridges; teh BC-02 is desginged specifically for the Bubble Jet Printers BJ-200 and BJ-230 and is the only one you should use.