[Slight OT] - CD Lables

[Bill McGonigle]

On Apr 22, 2005, at 11:27, David Ecklein wrote:

> I have a recent Epson Stylus Photo R200 that I bought retail (at 
> CompUSA)
> for $99.  It does a beautiful job on inkjet printable CDRs - which can 
> be
> had at Sam's - 50 700 Mb Verbatim for about $14.

I'll second that.  I got the R300 at Staples for $99 during a sale a 
few months back.  The only frustrating thing is you can't have a CD in 
there when the printer turns on (wakes up - it's always listening for 
USB) and the heads prime, but once you get the disc in it prints just 
about perfectly.  You'd think it would be hard to align, etc. as some 
old thermal printers I've used were, but it was dead-on the first time 
and hasn't drifted.  You don't get duds or misprints so it's better to 
burn then print as you have a much better chance of a buffer underrun 
or media failure than a print failure.

I grab a screencap from the baby videos, superimpose a title (white on 
shadow on photo works well) and print off a DVD.  The Grandparents are 
most appreciative.  I got my last batch of DVD's for about $0.60@, 
mostly because I insist on Taiyo Yeuden.

The only thing to watch out for is there are two ink levels you can use 
- the heavier ink deposit looks better, but requires a 24-hr dry.  I 
almost always use the normal mode which is machine washable in about 10 
minutes.

WRT the labels - there was a magazine article a while back where they 
used whatever process it is that they do to accelerate aging of CD's 
(heat at UV maybe?) and the question was when, not if, the label 
adhesive fails and pulls up the data layer off the plastic platter.

Moral of the story: don't.  Sharpies or real printing.  If you have 
labeled discs with important data, get copying.

-Bill
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