Printer for direct DVD printing

Mr Marenghi

Hi.

Can anybody recommend a good printer that'll print onto a DVD ? Something like this - http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/CDLanding.jsp but that's relatively cheap/affordable ?

Having a quick look and can't see any in argos, places like that. Maybe it's a bit specialist but we find we're spending money on getting discs printed up and it's way too expensive.

Just to add also it needs to print onto the disc, no label printing.

Thanks

yoyo

The only companies I know that do such printers are Canon and Epson, maybe HP, Brother etc do but the only ones I've come accross are the former. For the record I have an Epson and it prints well onto CD/DVDs. Also compatible inks are quite cheap online for it.
I have an Epson R360 btw, which is quite old but still motoring along, If you can pick up an Epson with CD printer capabilities second hand, you have more chance of compatibles working with it, I've never seen a Canon used to printing CDs so cant comment, but my Epson works fine.
Some things you need to remember though, disadvantages of Inkjet CD printers:
-The ink is not waterproof, put a printed CD under the tap and the colours will run-A fixative spray that adds a laquer over the disc is needed to make it waterproof, and those are quite hard to source I've found
-Printing to Discs isn't that fast. You need to put the disc on a tray, print from the cd printing program, then the printer measures the disc thats been inserted (Takes 20~seconds) before it starts printing

If for low volume printing a inkjet printer is fine, but bear in mind those 2 points. Printed cds are not the same as professionally thermal printed ones

Nick