CD printer? Dymo?

Some of the Epson printers will print on appropriate DVDs. I'll sell you my
unused R-380 if you're interested.

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:47:06 -0400, Ty Ford <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I'm looking for a printing solution for short run CD and DVD.
>
>I can burn discs in my Mac, but am looking for a print on disk device.
>
>The Discmakers Elite 4 burner/printer robot was here for a while but the
>power supply kept blowing out firewire ports in itself and on my Mac.
>
>I'm liking the hydroshield blank disks and am looking for a Mac-based inkjet
>printer for my small runs (1-20).
>
>The Dymo looks interesting, but slightly weird. If there's a really good
>short run printer/burners, I'm also interested. Any thoughts?

A couple of years ago a CD tray became standard-issue on a lot of
domestic printers. I've been using a cheap Canon Pixma inkjet. The
supplied software is perfectly adequate. I burn short runs two at a
time on my PC, the printer is quite fast enough to keep up with this.
The Pixma also does a good job on my occasional need for colour
photo-printing.

I think Epson also put a CD tray on a lot of their printers.

Ty Ford wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a printing solution for short run CD and DVD.
>
> I can burn discs in my Mac, but am looking for a print on disk device.
>

I use an HP C5280 all-in-one printer,scanner, copier which includes a
CD/DVD tray. I use it for printing short run CDs and have so far done a
few hundred on it. It works well and has Windows drivers but don't know
about the MAC. It cost me less than 90 GBP.

Cheers

Ian

"Ty Ford" wrote ...
> I'm looking for a printing solution for short run CD and DVD.
> I can burn discs in my Mac, but am looking for a print on disk device.
>
> The Discmakers Elite 4 burner/printer robot was here for a while but the
> power supply kept blowing out firewire ports in itself and on my Mac.
>
> I'm liking the hydroshield blank disks and am looking for a Mac-based
> inkjet
> printer for my small runs (1-20).
>
> The Dymo looks interesting, but slightly weird. If there's a really good
> short run printer/burners, I'm also interested. Any thoughts?

I've been using an Epson R300 for several years.
I installed a 3rd party "continuous ink supply" (CIS)
system on it to make the cost of printing reasonable.
But it has always been slow and fiddly.

I just got an Dymo DiskPainter and I love it.
It is much faster than the Epson. I'm hoping that
I can get cartridge refills (or CIS) for the Dymo
to keep the cost down.

Richard Crowley wrote:
> "Ty Ford" wrote ...
>> I'm looking for a printing solution for short run CD and DVD.
>> I can burn discs in my Mac, but am looking for a print on disk device.
>>
>> The Discmakers Elite 4 burner/printer robot was here for a while but the
>> power supply kept blowing out firewire ports in itself and on my Mac.
>>
>> I'm liking the hydroshield blank disks and am looking for a Mac-based
>> inkjet
>> printer for my small runs (1-20).
>>
>> The Dymo looks interesting, but slightly weird. If there's a really good
>> short run printer/burners, I'm also interested. Any thoughts?
>
> I've been using an Epson R300 for several years.
> I installed a 3rd party "continuous ink supply" (CIS)
> system on it to make the cost of printing reasonable.
> But it has always been slow and fiddly.
>
> I just got an Dymo DiskPainter and I love it.
> It is much faster than the Epson. I'm hoping that
> I can get cartridge refills (or CIS) for the Dymo
> to keep the cost down.
>
>

The first review I found on the web says the Dymo's print quality is
poor. How do you find it?

Cheers

Ian

"Ian Thompson-Bell" wrote ...
> The first review I found on the web says the Dymo's print quality is poor.
> How do you find it?

Better than my Epson 300. I haven't tried it on the glossy
"waterproof" discs, yet.

I use an Epson R260 printer. It's served me well for over a year.



Quoting Ty Ford <[email protected]>:

>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for a printing solution for short run CD and DVD.
>
>I can burn discs in my Mac, but am looking for a print on disk device.
>
>The Discmakers Elite 4 burner/printer robot was here for a while but the
>power supply kept blowing out firewire ports in itself and on my Mac.
>
>I'm liking the hydroshield blank disks and am looking for a Mac-based inkjet
>printer for my small runs (1-20).
>
>The Dymo looks interesting, but slightly weird. If there's a really good
>short run printer/burners, I'm also interested. Any thoughts?
>
>Regards,
>
>Ty Ford
>
>--Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
>Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
>Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU

Ty Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm looking for a printing solution for short run CD and DVD.
>
>I can burn discs in my Mac, but am looking for a print on disk device.
>
>The Discmakers Elite 4 burner/printer robot was here for a while but the
>power supply kept blowing out firewire ports in itself and on my Mac.
>
>I'm liking the hydroshield blank disks and am looking for a Mac-based inkjet
>printer for my small runs (1-20).
>
>The Dymo looks interesting, but slightly weird. If there's a really good
>short run printer/burners, I'm also interested. Any thoughts?

A customer of mine has one of the Epson printers... it does not burn, only
print, and it only takes two discs at a time so it effectively has to be
hand-fed, but it seems reliable. Cost per disc is fairly high because of
the overpriced ink cartridges, but the up-front cost is low.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Cost per disc is fairly high because of
> the overpriced ink cartridges, but the up-front cost is low.

Mike Rivers turned me onto these folks, back when they were Inkjets
Soutwest. I have had excellent results with their Epson-compatible ink
carts, at a fraction of the Epson price. (Kurt A. had less satisfactory
results.)

http://cartridgetech.com/

--
ha
Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam

Ty Ford <[email protected]> put forth the notion
in...news:[email protected]:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a printing solution for short run CD and DVD.
>
> I can burn discs in my Mac, but am looking for a print on disk device.
>
> The Discmakers Elite 4 burner/printer robot was here for a while but
> the power supply kept blowing out firewire ports in itself and on my
> Mac.
>
> I'm liking the hydroshield blank disks and am looking for a Mac-based
> inkjet printer for my small runs (1-20).
>
> The Dymo looks interesting, but slightly weird. If there's a really
> good short run printer/burners, I'm also interested. Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ty Ford
>
> --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services
> Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com
> Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZJ9MptZmU
>

Ty,

I've had good results with Primera Bravo line (SE and II).

david