[Frameworks] DVD Thermal Transfer Printer

[Shelly Silver]

thermal printers are $$$, aren't they?

i use a $100 epson inkjet printer.  mostly you have to keep the discs out of the rain (tho i think there's a way around this...).  i'm  not doing anything fancy, just name info, but i suppose you could print images

hp also makes cheap inkjet printers that print on cd/dvd's  (though in the us you have to hack them a bit)

in general i wouldn't put too much energy into how a dvd looks if its just for festival screeners. selling copies is another story.

best,
shelly


On Jul 31, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez wrote:

> I have the Casio.  The printing is very limited - 3 or 4 lines of text per disc or something like that.  You have very little control over text formatting.  It also runs out of ink very quickly.  I rarely use it because it always seems to need a new ink cartridge and i just don't have time or cash to keep up with it.
> 
> On Jul 31, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Ken Paul Rosenthal wrote:
> 
>> I'm researching b/w thermal DVD transfer printers for my festival screener copies.
>>  
>> I've found that all-in-one printers are very reasonably priced but extremely inefficient in terms of ink, and pretty clunky to operate, though the result looks pretty decent.
>>  
>> Stand alone light-scribe printers such as the LaCie model are inkless, but discs are more expensive and have a grey background.
>>  
>> On the other hand, stand alone thermal printers such as the Casio Disc Title Printer CW-100 look promising and work with the white discs, though I've yet to test one.
>>  
>> Any suggestions?
>>  
>> Thanks, Ken
>> 
>> www.crookedbeauty.com
>> www.kenpaulrosenthal.com
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