CD/DVD Printer or Label Stomper?????

Smithers

Looking at printing to DVD - nothing major just black and text -

Would it be more economical to get a stomper and using my inkjet printer?
would these work on all dvd players with the slight increased height?

Would it be better to get a small printer to print direct to cd/dvd ? and is ink expensive for them?

Cheers

8T8

Personally I'd go with a DVD printer as you retain the option for better labels etc and printable discs are very easy to acquire.

You could always go with a Lightscribe DVD writer they do printing to the face a special sepia tone disc so it looks sort of like black text on gold.

Smithers

8T8 wrote:

You could always go with a Lightscribe DVD writer they do printing to the face a special sepia tone disc so it looks sort of like black text on gold.

any more info on this? cheers for the reply

stomper might be cheepest option though?

8T8

I originally had a stomper but frankly it was crappy and finding the extra sticky labels wasn't easy either. Then I tried Lightscribe which was okay but the discs are fingerprint magnets and look smudgy after constant handling, this might have been resolved with later generation discs I couldn't say.

So eventually I bit the bullet and got a disc printer in the form of the Canon IP5200 and simply I wish I had done it earlier, the quality is excellent printing onto labels.

Their is one more system like Lighscribe called LabelFlash though I havent tested it myself but it is supposdely very similar though faster than Lightscribe and it offers more different colour discs though still a uniform colour with shades to make the image and text.

Clseeper

Lightscribe was developed by hp and then licenced out. So the fact that its hp means it good quality and will work. Basicly you burn the disc as normal then flip it over and the drive uses the same laser to scribe out your picture on the disk. Takes bout 25 mins to do a proper photo picture on the disk, slow but i think there working on making it faster and in colour?

You need special disk, CD prices should work out bout 60-70cent a disc.

www.lightscribe.com [i think]

Clseeper

oh and you'll need a new lightscribe enabled drive ~60-100eur. So not the cheapest option.

Lightscribe dvd's ~ 1.20eur each

Smithers

cheers for the replies folks,

can anyone then reccomend a budget cd printer that wont cost a fortune to run? so far as have the canon ip5200

bretttp1

I just bought a samsung lightscribe dvd burner (OEM) for €52.5 on komplett! no need to go messing around with printers etc just turn and burn!;)

Smithers

what speed is it>? and whats the cheepest u can get the litescribe dvd media for??

bretttp1

Its a Samsung DVD±RW burner, SH-W162L, 16x, Dual, LightScribe All the details are on Komplett.ie, Its been voted the best and quietest Lightscibe on the market at present by various web sites including tomshardware, the discs are running at €1.20 each but its dropping all the time, they give a very nice looking end result.