Looking for printer options that will do well with color on a cd.

[Hossenfeffer]

I'm new to this vein of printers, or at least as far as printing on cd's/dvd's goes. Haven't bought a new printer in probably 10 years.

Looking for something that, without breaking the bank, will be able to do printing directly onto CD's/DVD's in color. The output would need to be something good enough to sell. Would be looking at a fair amount of volume going through it as well, 500-1000 cd's or so at least within a few months for starters. With that in mind, would want to ideally find it online or local in the Seattle area in the next week or so.

Along those lines, if anyone has any leads on a good quality cd duplicator (again, with a budget in mind... $500?), that would be of interest. I've thought about putting one together out of spare parts to have something with maybe 3-4 burners going, but a standalone, portable unit would be preferrable.


Something like this Primera Bravo II at Newegg would be nice, given the good resolution and auto-feeding capability, but the $1,000 price tag might just be a bit much.


Epson R1800 for $500 or so? Looks like the quality would be great, but not sure if it would be overkill.

 

[Peter]

If you're in the US, it'll have to be Epson for direct-to-CD printing. Complaints to your Patent Office, for their love of generic trivial patents.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Thanks for the pointer. Was just reading up on the ip4000/5000 and making my own tray. Has me intrigued.

 

[xgsound]

Epson is your main choice for out of the box CD printing in the US. The Canon IP 4000/5000 can be modified to print to CD, but are being closed out at such places as Staples and Office Depot/Max. If you can get a Canon 4000/5000, the trays are avaliable on e-bay.

The new Canons are the IP 4200/5200 with chipped cartridges. I do not know if the CD printing mod works with the new models yet or not. There are several posters here that will have more up to date info on the Canon.

Here is a link http://www.stevesforums.com/forums/view_forum.php?id=40&sort_by=views_desc that will probably have info on Canon 4200/5200 CD mods shortly after they are available.

I just went to Steves forums and found this http://www.stevesforums.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=58907&forum_id=40&page=3 where one fellow got the 5200 to work with CDs on 11/17/05.


Jim