Best Option for Printing My Own DVDs & CDs

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jrod81

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Hello
I am doing a few different things right now... I shoot Sunday morning services for a local church. I shoot video depositions for a law firm- yes I work for a law firm and a church- God does forgive the sinner afterall. And then I do weddings/events as time permits. I have been ordering DVDs one at a time with Cafe Press and it just seems un-necessary. Can someone give me a few options for a printer that can do direct printing on the DVD disc (I am not interested in printing labels and putting those on separate- I want it to be more professional than that). I am not even sure what these types of printers are called and what type of DVDs I will need. I did a few google searches, but would like to hear from someone who is actually using a particular printer with good results.
thanks for your time
jared
 
Epson makes color inkjet printers that will print directly on the surface of inkjet printable disks. There are also thermal printers from Casio, Primera and others that will print on non inkjet printables, but the thermal printers are either monochrome or very expensive.
 
They are kinda low rent, but dvd labels can hold you over until you get a dvd printer and printable DVDs:
http://www.google.com/products/cata...log_result&ct=image&resnum=4&ved=0CFsQ8gIwAw#

A number of printers will print CDs/DVDs, but as was mentioned Epson some really solid ones. I used to use an Epson when I was working at an Ad agency(wish I remembered the model number), but the Canon I have now I found in goodwill for $30 (not spectacular but does the job).
 
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I've got a Canon mp600. It's a couple years old, and the US version didn't print to discs (but the EU version did). I bought the DVD tray off ebay and just had to reset the software to European instead of American. Been working great for me for the past few years. I've heard good things about the epsons. I may try out one of those when this one bites the dust.
 
I have an Epson Artisan 50 (not sure if it is still made) that works great to occasionally pop a DVD in and print. Can also serve as a regular printer , which is nice since I normally wouldn't have one on an editing machine.
 
Has epson ever put in a built in cd tray, or do they still use that stupid adaptor that has to be exactly right or it wont work. I've had an r300 for a few years and it gives nice results, but it is certainly buggy. It takes several tries to get the adaptor aligned so that it will actually go in and print. I also think printing dvd's messes with the rollers, because it won't take paper properly any more either. It's fine for one off's but it is too much of a hassle to do more than about 5 at a time. If you ever have to do 20 or more it would be worth seeing if anyone in your area has a proper robot feed one. I've certainly not abused it, it's done maybe 100 disks total.
 
check out discmakers.com to get some ideas. They probably don't have the best prices, but they carry quite a bit of stuff. You may benefit from an all in one disc publisher (copies and prints as a single process)
 
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