printing thermal printable DVD/CD with inkjet printer

[Tostada]

I just got an Epson R200 (great deal, $94 delivered at Newegg) because my old HP 880C died, and I like the idea of printing on DVDs.

I'm not looking to print huge full-color images on every DVD. I just think it'd be nice to have something instead of blank silver DVDs so I could tell the discs apart. I don't even like the way inkjet printable media looks. I think regular silver is nice. I just want to be able to put a title on the disc.

Rima sells silver inkjet printable DVDs, but are they shiny silver, or are they some kind of goofy matte-finish version of regular inkjet media?

I have a ton of Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD-Rs, which are the thermal printable silver ones. I assume that the only real issue of printing on this media would be smearing. The printer driver does let you turn the print density down, so I think if I do that and don't have a lot of coverage, printing on thermal media might work out just fine.

I just wanted to see if anybody had any experience/ideas before I waste some DVDs by printing smeary labels on them.

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: Tostada
I just got an Epson R200 (great deal, $94 delivered at Newegg) because my old HP 880C died, and I like the idea of printing on DVDs.

I'm not looking to print huge full-color images on every DVD. I just think it'd be nice to have something instead of blank silver DVDs so I could tell the discs apart. I don't even like the way inkjet printable media looks. I think regular silver is nice. I just want to be able to put a title on the disc.

Rima sells silver inkjet printable DVDs, but are they shiny silver, or are they some kind of goofy matte-finish version of regular inkjet media?

I have a ton of Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD-Rs, which are the thermal printable silver ones. I assume that the only real issue of printing on this media would be smearing. The printer driver does let you turn the print density down, so I think if I do that and don't have a lot of coverage, printing on thermal media might work out just fine.

I just wanted to see if anybody had any experience/ideas before I waste some DVDs by printing smeary labels on them.

Printable media costs alot more per disc.

What is wrong with a sharpie marker??

 

[Tostada]

Originally posted by: rpbri2886

Printable media costs alot more per disc.

What is wrong with a sharpie marker??

What are you talking about? I don't know where you get your media from, but Taiyo Yuden 8X is right around $0.60 for regular media and $0.70 for inkjet printable. I think I can handle the extra dime to get something that looks a million times better than a sharpie.

 

[Zepper]

If the ink smears, just wipe the rest of the ink off with alcohol.
.bh.

:moon:

 

[Stangs55]

Originally posted by: Tostada
I just got an Epson R200 (great deal, $94 delivered at Newegg) because my old HP 880C died, and I like the idea of printing on DVDs.

I'm not looking to print huge full-color images on every DVD. I just think it'd be nice to have something instead of blank silver DVDs so I could tell the discs apart. I don't even like the way inkjet printable media looks. I think regular silver is nice. I just want to be able to put a title on the disc.

Rima sells silver inkjet printable DVDs, but are they shiny silver, or are they some kind of goofy matte-finish version of regular inkjet media?

I have a ton of Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD-Rs, which are the thermal printable silver ones. I assume that the only real issue of printing on this media would be smearing. The printer driver does let you turn the print density down, so I think if I do that and don't have a lot of coverage, printing on thermal media might work out just fine.

I just wanted to see if anybody had any experience/ideas before I waste some DVDs by printing smeary labels on them.

What on earth would you be making so many dvd's for? Surely you aren't copying rented movies! Shame Shame

Sinner.

 

[SchrodingersDog]

I know you've got an investment in the printable discs, but at least try a cd labelmaker kit. For twenty bucks you can get a couple hundred labels and some nice software. I see plenty of the Memorex kits at Best Buy for $15-$20.

 

[Tostada]

Originally posted by: SchrodingersDog
I know you've got an investment in the printable discs, but at least try a cd labelmaker kit. For twenty bucks you can get a couple hundred labels and some nice software. I see plenty of the Memorex kits at Best Buy for $15-$20.

Huh? I've used labels plenty. I still have 300 PlayStation games with sticky labels on them.

Labels don't save you any money, they're a pain, they look worse than direct printing, and they don't work with DVDs if you want to be able to play the disc in most set-top players.

 

[gsellis]

My 960 says wait 24 hours and it will dry if I use regular media. Or at least I remember reading that somewhere. I guess you could setup a "clothes" line and hang the DVDs by clothes pins until they dry