Recommendations for a new CD printer

Ultra_Extreme · 7 Oct 2007 at 09:05

What experience have you all had? I had the R220 with the revised Tray and it was great but after much abuse it started erroring on everything so i binned it and decided to shop for a new one.

Ive heard epson is pretty much the only way to go, canon inks are just too costly for my volume of work (i produce discs for pre built systems and backups of customer data etc), commercial CD printers are silly money and last but not least i find the epson PrintCD software easy to manage (i import from a photoshop template, i wouldnt design on it! yuk!

So whats good in the land of epson CD printers atm, im looking rather purposfully at the R360. Colour screen, computer free printing, shorter CD loading tray for compact-ness.

What other options have i got?

Samione · 7 Oct 2007 at 10:59

What about lightscribe drives? They're only like 20 quid. Or are they no good?

Ultra_Extreme · 7 Oct 2007 at 23:19

Samione said:
What about lightscribe drives? They're only like 20 quid. Or are they no good?

i dont have 25 hours to spend waiting for simple mono graphics to print m8, u ever tried one? bloody awful

RobH · 7 Oct 2007 at 23:52

I have the Canon IP4300 and it seems to print CD's well. It uses the transparent ink tanks which you can buy for less than £2 each if you don't mind 3'rd party ones.

basmic · 8 Oct 2007 at 00:09

RobH said:
I have the Canon IP4300 and it seems to print CD's well. It uses the transparent ink tanks which you can buy for less than £2 each if you don't mind 3'rd party ones.

I tried those £2 ink tanks on eBay, but the colour representation is bloody awful - not to mention the clip on the larger black tank is iffy, and requires electrical tape to hold it.

I'll be glad whe Royal Fail get their fingers out, and deliver my new batch. So it's about £20 for the full set of compatible cartridges - but if they're better than the bloody £8.99 jobs, then I don't care. It's better than spending £45 on Canon's own ink tanks! :eek:

Edit: Removed competitor, didn't realise OcUK sold ink. :eek:

Cupra · 8 Oct 2007 at 00:19

epson rx560 i have is brilliant

RobH · 8 Oct 2007 at 00:47

The one's I got weren't from eBay, You have to remove the chip from an original tank and slot it in, they work fine for me. I've printed photo's with them and they look great, the paper matters as much as the ink though.

basmic · 8 Oct 2007 at 07:53

RobH said:
The one's I got weren't from eBay, You have to remove the chip from an original tank and slot it in, they work fine for me. I've printed photo's with them and they look great, the paper matters as much as the ink though.

TBH, you can't really argue with plain 100g/sm paper.

Before the ink tanks, printing was always fine on that paper - then with the new ink, it just looked watered down.