On 8 Nov 2006 19:25:37 -0800, wrote:
Talker wrote:
Hi Ric! I also used Neato for a while, and to be honest, I ended up getting an Epson R220 printer so that I can print directly on CDs and DVDs. The printer was on sale for $60, and the printable CDs and DVDs are almost the same price as the non-printable disks.
Thanks for jumpin in Talker.
When I was in Staples last week and was inquiring about printers (hadn’t bought one yet)
I asked about these direct CD print printers. I hadn’t heard of them before.
Once I learned they needed special CD’s to print I figured the printer + the CD’s would be too expensive overall. So I started looking at the regular printers and labels.
You can buy the inkjet printable CDs for about 17¢ each at the supermedia store. I prefer the Verbatim Datalife Plus CDs for about 32¢ each, but that’s me.<g>
So you’re saying that I should add glue stick to the CD top if I want to prevent bubbling on my CD’s? I thought DVD’s were the same as CD’s. Why doesn’t the glue stick work with them?
It isn’t a problem with the glue, it’s the label itself. Applying a label to a DVD can cause it to stop working in a player. It has something to do with making the DVD unbalanced, so that the DVD player can’t read it.(DVDs are more critical in reading and writing because the data is more densely packed than it is on a CD, so anything that affects the balance of the DVD can affect the reading of it.) Using a printable DVD instead eliminates that problem.
I ended up springing for the Epson R220. In the long
run, it’s cheaper. (what do they charge these days for blank labels?)
Interesting. I bought a pack of 40 sheets, 2 labels per sheet for $20 CAN.
Expensive, but the cheapest Staples was carrying.
See, if you add the price of the labels to the cost of the CDs, then it’s costing you an additional 20¢ per CD. The cheapest CDs are about 13¢ each, so the total cost for the CD and label is about 33¢. If you buy the Ritek inkjet printable CDs from supermedia, they’re 17¢ each. Of course you have to add the cost of the ink to the price, but it’s still cheaper than using labels.(you’d also have to add the price of the ink to the label cost also.)
If you can still find the Epson printer for $60, it’s a really good buy. If it’s no longer on sale, the normal price is $100. Even at that price, it’s still cheaper in the long run over using labels
If a new Epson printer isn’t what you want to do, then try making the image that you want to print, a little larger so that it is slightly oversized for the label. This will eliminate the white areas.(it did for me).)
Thanks for the tip!
Ric
You’re welcome Ric! If you’d like to see what the R220 can do, I’d be more than happy to send you a CD. Let me know what musicians or group you like and I’ll see if I can get some photos to use for the CD.(oh, and let me know where to send it)
Talker