What printer are you using for DVD/CD

I use a Canon i9950. Only for occasionaly use mind so I don't know how it would cope with very big runs but it also prints great pictures!

Currently an Epson R220. I use it only for disk printing and, based on the life expectancy of the last two Epsons, it will last about a year. At about £70 it is simply an expendable item.

Ray Liffen

Canon i45200 does a great job but you can only use genuine cartridges which is a pity.

canon i965.

occasional use for DVDs. very happy. haven't tried it with compatible inks, only genuine.

image quality exceptional

Epson Photo 900. Cost all of £75 over 2.5 years ago and is solid as a rock. I feed it pirate inks it's so old but it refuses to give up. I've even got used to its rear loading of discs for printing. Wonderful machine.

An Epson R200 and a CIS. Still going strong after literally thousands of full-face printed DVDs.

My Epson R200 gave up recently (disc transport problem) after doing probably 2000+ discs and a fair bit of paper printing.

I would have looked at the Canon alternatives, but I had quite a few ink cartridges in stock, so I simply bought an Epson R220.

Incidentally with the R200 I seldom used Epsons own ink. The compatible inks I used gave me no problems and saved me over £300.

R200 / R900 / R950

Hi, I use the Epson R 300. Used it for two years no problem with compatable inks. Used mostly for printing to discs and DVD case covers. Can highly recommend for this use. Dont know about Photos as I dont use it for that purpose. Roy Alexander(Willow Court Studios).

Use both the Epson Stylus Photo 900 and R300 only for DVD printing. Best service comes from the 900. No problem with the inconvenience of the back loading as I put it on a camping table when in use. Keep an Epson 890 for general paper printing.

Harry

Photo R220 did have a R200, I use it for photos as well, best quality I've seen but not so good with compatables fine for DVD's and plain paper but with photos the compatables gave a green cast to everything, the cheapest price for genuines was £37, new printer from Pixmania £47, no contest if you don't mind the French plug but I used the old one.

Not an Epson R200, you will most likely have endless problems with it

But possibly fixed in a later model? (That's what manufacturers do.)

I have a R320 - faultless out of the box.

Epson Photo 900 seconded.
Mines about 3 years old, Uses IM Jet catridges (£46 for 20 Black and 20 colour on Ebay 18 months ago!) and is very reliable (No problems incurred at all).
Probably wouldn't use these cartridges if I were printing a photo to hang on the wall in daylight but my DVD's live in a box out of the light.
I've just had a look at one of the earliest I printed when I changed ink to compatibles and it looks just the same as the recently printed ones (I'm still using the same template:))

Interesting that no one is using any of the thermal printers.

SHARYN

Also interesting is that no manufacturer has produced a disks-only inkjet printer (it could be much smaller and lighter if it didn't have to handle A4 paper and card) and the HP haven't come into the disk market at all.

Apart from the small-run specialists like ourselves, it would seem that disk printing is one of those features that goes into the advertising blurb because the general public think they will use it, but they never do.

My friend Bob uses a thermal printer but the hardware cost is high and the waxes or whatever it uses aren't cheap either.

Ray Liffen

I use the eson r220 and can't fault it, on a side note has anyone used a lightscribe drive yet? I know they can be slow and only 'print' mono but i've seen one or two and they look really good.

I`m surprised no-one else seems to be using the Canon i4200!

Hi Barry,
I'm using the IP4200 - and very pleased with it.
My epson (paper printing) seems to dry up in hot weather needing carrtidge changes/head cleans, but Canon has no such problems.

I'll just echo what Dave M said earlier. I too am surprised that no manufacturer has tried to plug the gap between simple disc printers like the Epson R220 costing about £70 and automated ones costing £1000+.

I rather expected Epson to come up with something for £4-500, but I guess they feel the market for automated disc printers isn't big enough.

My suggestion to the manufacturers would be to make a disk tray that takes 3 discs at once in a standard A4 printer (or one 6 at once in a standard A3 printer) instead of the "one-at-a-time" tiny tray.

It would only require a bigger single plastic moulded sheet with disc indents.

There is one - but it's £600 which is quite a bit for a grown up r200. I can't remember who make it but I've seen it with an imac in a catalogue

(also alows you to bugger disks 6 times quiker!)

http://shop.cd-writer.com/acatalog/ALL_PRODUCTS_DAVINCI_DVD_CD_PRINTER_655.html

Even more than I thought!!

Going on info I know about how many dedicated auto-loader systems are sold in the UK, they won't ever produce one, which is a shame, there simply isn't enough people buying them.

We have two Primera Signature Pro printers & a Accent disc laminator for the record.

Treat the Epson as disposable, I gave a 200 away and replaced with 2 R220s. Ive also stopped using my HP for case inserts. Epson gives better quality and refills are around £8.00 a set. Even consider a bulk ink supply. About £35 a unit.

We had 2 Epson 900s but got fed up of them being too slow. Gave one to the postman and the other to a mate.

Bought a Canon IP4000 and loved it. We now have a few Canon printers for discs:-

IP4000
IP4200
MP600

All print discs perfectly in just over a minute. The 4000 has done many thousands of discs, likewise the 4200 is a champ! The MP600s were new this month but have done a couple of hundred each.
The older ones run cheap ink, the new ones will too - we buy ink from Ebay and swap the chips, no probs (tip: blu tac hold chips in place).

I have a friend that runs Epson R200s - he's got loads of them plus a few still boxed `spares` - he's had a few warranty swaps but remains happy with the units. They do a lot of shows and print many thousands of discs with Epson genuine ink.

Take a look at these beauties...

What you are looking at here is the dual duplicator/printing robot machines that I have recently installed.

I have the kit to not only produce 12cm DVD & CD disks on white or silver backgrounds with very high-quality full colour printing, but can also do 8cm (mini CD/DVDs), Business card CDs and 'Saddle' or 'Hockey' CD/DVDs as well and can handle volumes from about 300 to 700 CDs and 220 to 550 DVD units a day (depending on length of program/size of files on the original).

We will soon be adding an Accent laminator as well. :D

I use an Epson R800 on glossy verbatim discs and it gives exellent quality. I just run the cheepo inks £1.? plus and buy them by the box load. I used to run an Epson 950 but was never happy with that. I always had trouble printing dead centre and the inks always clogged it up.

Les

Where is the best place to buy printers from these days?
I had a look in the local pc world ( I was bored)
but they seem to be all 3 in 1 combo's.

Mind you i bought a Samsung 250GB SATAII drive for £54.99 from PC world which is only £5 dearer than ebuyer or dabs and had to pay no postage, might go back and get another one :)

I got my last one from Amazon, would buy again from them.

I got another Epson R220 a couple of weeks ago from PC World. Some items you can buy online and collect from the store at internet prices. It was cheaper that way than from anywhere else.
As another poster says, the printers are as much consumables as the inks. I have a CIS that I've transferred from R200 to R220. Having discovered that the original carts that come with the printer fetch a good price on e-bay I managed to offset nearly half the cost of the printer!

Epson are doing an offer on the R265, give them your old printer for £40 off. See bargain area for details.

I may have found myself a Christmas present.

mdiver :- Had a look at that and must say that it looks like a real bargain.
Apart from my R200, I have and am still using, an ancient Epson Stylus Colour 600, which now looks like it could be worth £40. It is very likely that I will be paying a visit to the Epson Express Centre.

Can anyone explain 'Epson Claria Photographic Ink system'. And does the R265 use the same inks as the R200

Cheers.
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No. i've been looking at the R265 and the thing that has put me off is that it does NOT
use the same ink as the R200 and to make things worse, at this time it does not seem as if there are any compatibles out there for it at the moment.
I was gonna get a R340 from Argos

Well that takes care of that then.:mad:

i can only assume that eventually there will be compatables for it, i don't know if ian at lynx dv might be able to shed some light on this

Just to add my printer - it's the Epson R220, with "Pro Jet" compatible inks from Superinks.co.uk.

We use the Epson R265, bought it as we don't print that many discs & thought it used the same inks as our RX620. It doesn't but the inks are reasonably priced & economical. No compatibles available yet & Epson have stocks but general suppliers have limited stocks!!

A few poeple have written about these - how does the adhesion of the laminate copmpare to that of a DVD label? Will it eventually work loose with the heat of the laser, and subsequently jam the drive? Will the adhesive have an adverse ipmact on the life of the DVD?

Incidently, have had 2 Epson 950s (both eventuallly wore out), & a Primera Signature Pro (any one knows anywhere that will service/refurbish this in the UK?) - now use a Picasso II :D & an Epson 220 for the odd disc!