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| mact User Info... | does anyone in vic do low-run cd printing, esp heat transfer printing? i'm sick of cd labels - Wed, 22 Sep 2004 7:31pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | How small are the runs you're talking about? If you're primarily interested in thermal, I assume you normally use shinny top CDRs? There is a portable thermal CD printer (more like a labeler actually) at http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1032876&CatId=249 $136.00, but it will only do parallel lines of text / some graphics. Not sure how complicated the print patterns can be. An Epson Stylus 900 will print CD tops, fairly quick and painless. But you have to use Printable surface CDRs. (Printable white is my favourite). Epson printer is probably about $230.00 to purchase. It gets reasonable ink-mileage if you stay away from crazy full-bleed graphics and tons of colours. Keep it simple and it works wonderful. Essentially can print whatever you want to them. I'm glad your asking the question, because I was wondering how much potential there would be out there for small run Duplicating/packaging/CD printing business. (Anything up to 100 kind of thing). If you want to see some of my work, its all over the People's War Double CD. Anyone else what to weigh in on that topic? - Thu, 23 Sep 2004 9:24am | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | I should have looked before I posted. (Hi Orange!).... (hehehe) Question still stands for the rest of you though. - Thu, 23 Sep 2004 9:41am | ||
| W:) User Info... | future shop has a machine that prints a lable right on the cd. i think its under $200 and looks like pro job. - Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:31pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | Ya, they're getting cheaper. They do not too bad a job, but often the software that comes with them is brutal. Takes some work to design the forms for other programs to work well with them. The results are this side of 'prefessional', but with work it can get close. - Mon, 27 Sep 2004 8:07am | ||
| ML7Mike User Info... | we did 200 of them last month, on a cheapo printer my buddy bought for $125 at Future Shop on sale. Used just over half ink, and we had color graphics, logo and text ( but on white background ) Look for Verbatim white disks as they have a luminescant shine as opposed to the Maxell flat white which look cheaper, but cost the same. Last time I called around Staples were the only place in the city with Verbatims in stock. Took approx 2.5 mins per disk to print and package, not including burning time. Do your main graphics in Photoshop or whatever and then import them into your Cd Print Software individually, ie: dont do the whole disk as one graphic, but rather as each individual piece, and import them one by one, as its much easier to lay out then trying to center a CD sized graphic with the cheapo software. - Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:24am | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | Thanks for the info, ML7Mike. I was wondering when someone would come out with a shiny/printable surface. Hadn't seen one to date. I think I'll switch to those. The key to simplicity is the white background when talking about ink consumption. Otherwise ink becomes one of the most expense factors (That and the cost of really good paper for the inside) Is your CD in the shops now? (Ditch?) - Wed, 29 Sep 2004 2:39pm | ||
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