Best DVD/CD printer

[Johnbear007]

I was thinking about getting a DVD printer for printable DVD's. I was wondering if anyone had some experience with them, and how much more they prefered it over labels?

 

[madthumbs]

They still look similar to labels if you go with the inkjet printables at least. You won't have any problems with aligning the lables or air bubbles though. I'm using an Epson Stylus Photo 960. It's been a decent printer so far. I paid ~$300 for it, and found it for a lot less since. I do prefer it over lables, but have come to the conclusion that the space disks take is a waste. I'm almost to the point of just using markers and only keeping disks around as long as I use them. Materialism is wasteful.

 

[CombatChuk]

The Epson R200 and R300 are gonna be your best choices.

 

[NightCrawler]

I make DVD and CD outside labels but the disc itself always seemed a waste of time and money. I would say that 99% of the time all I see is the jewel cases and dvd cases.

The jewel and dvd cases look great sitting on the shelf

 

[Zepper]

Depends on the quantity you are doing. There is one out there that uses a dye-sub (wax) type ink that you put a stack of blanks on one spindle, the printer picks a blank off, prints it, and stacks the finished disks on another spindle (like some amazingly complex old record players I've seen). Might be considered expensive unless you are doing production quantities. For small quantities, the Epson 200/300 mentioned above are probably it (though the same company that makes the stacker also makes units that prints individual disks and paper too). And I do hate Epsons for their propensity to clog very tightly at the least excuse...
.bh.

 

[gsellis]

On a video forum, someone was discussing a review of the new Canon printers. The quality was supposed to be better than the Epson and the tray was easier to use. Cannot swear to it. I have a 960 that I got through Epson as a refurb ($50 off). I am happy with it, but it does take up a little real estate.

Edit - PS - Labels on DVDs are not a good idea. They unbalance the DVDs if they are not on almost perfectly, can come off at the higher rotational speeds in a slot in player. DVD tracks are closer, so they are more sensitive to high speed wobbles.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: NightCrawler
I make DVD and CD outside labels but the disc itself always seemed a waste of time and money. I would say that 99% of the time all I see is the jewel cases and dvd cases.

The jewel and dvd cases look great sitting on the shelf

I don't use jewel cases and jewel case labels, that seems like a waste to me
but to each their own. I use a book, I just hate the way a sharpie looks.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: gsellis
On a video forum, someone was discussing a review of the new Canon printers. The quality was supposed to be better than the Epson and the tray was easier to use. Cannot swear to it. I have a 960 that I got through Epson as a refurb ($50 off). I am happy with it, but it does take up a little real estate.

Edit - PS - Labels on DVDs are not a good idea. They unbalance the DVDs if they are not on almost perfectly, can come off at the higher rotational speeds in a slot in player. DVD tracks are closer, so they are more sensitive to high speed wobbles.

I've heard that but never experienced it myself. Also, these are just backups mostly for car use etc. I'm not going to cry a river if I have to make another . I've been using labels for a long time and have never had a problem to date.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Johnbear007

Originally posted by: gsellis
On a video forum, someone was discussing a review of the new Canon printers. The quality was supposed to be better than the Epson and the tray was easier to use. Cannot swear to it. I have a 960 that I got through Epson as a refurb ($50 off). I am happy with it, but it does take up a little real estate.

Edit - PS - Labels on DVDs are not a good idea. They unbalance the DVDs if they are not on almost perfectly, can come off at the higher rotational speeds in a slot in player. DVD tracks are closer, so they are more sensitive to high speed wobbles.

I've heard that but never experienced it myself. Also, these are just backups mostly for car use etc. I'm not going to cry a river if I have to make another . I've been using labels for a long time and have never had a problem to date.

It's not just a matter of making another CD label; they can potentially destroy your CD/DVD player.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: Johnbear007

Originally posted by: gsellis
On a video forum, someone was discussing a review of the new Canon printers. The quality was supposed to be better than the Epson and the tray was easier to use. Cannot swear to it. I have a 960 that I got through Epson as a refurb ($50 off). I am happy with it, but it does take up a little real estate.

Edit - PS - Labels on DVDs are not a good idea. They unbalance the DVDs if they are not on almost perfectly, can come off at the higher rotational speeds in a slot in player. DVD tracks are closer, so they are more sensitive to high speed wobbles.

I've heard that but never experienced it myself. Also, these are just backups mostly for car use etc. I'm not going to cry a river if I have to make another . I've been using labels for a long time and have never had a problem to date.

It's not just a matter of making another CD label; they can potentially destroy your CD/DVD player.

I'm willing to bet that's quite a stretch. Kinda like using your cell phone at a gas pump could potentially detonate the station.

Regardless, my DVD player was free AR. I'll take the chance of losing my 37 cents

I appreciate the concern, in my opinion though this is one of those things that people get way too worked up about.

There's also a chance that I could get killed walking to my car, or die from choking to death on a burritto, but i'm not going to stay in or stop eating.

I think people blow somethings way out of proportion, and this is probably one of them.

 

[Zepper]

Yeah, I found the automated printer. It's the Primera Bravo II (only $1200.00), but I found that is the entry model that only hold 50 CDs you can get some real production gear if you got the bux. They even have the CD burners built in.
. It seems like they've gone mainly to inkjet but they do still have some that use the wax transfer from around $140. Unfortunately they have chosen to support only Win2k and XP with drivers, so they won't be long for this world...

.bh.

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