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JD8180
I choose noise.

Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Miami, Florida USA

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Originally posted by HotDogWater
I use a lightscribe burner, and I hate the fact that it takes 10-15 minutes to print on the best quality. The lower qualities are a bit light for my liking, though. I'm thinking of switching to a printer.

On the other hand, you can get a lightscribe burner for about $30 these days. The CD's don't cost THAT much more if you buy in bulk and shop around. You could always get a burner and buy a few CDs and see how you like it. If not, you still have a burner and can use other methods if you don't like it.

exactly what he said... i bought a burner not even knowing what lightscribe was, and for only like $25 or so on newegg... still haven't actually used the lightscribe though, don't really care for it much

Sep-24-2007 18:19 United States

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Ryan0751
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: May 2005
Location: Boston, MA

Both Epson and HP now have CD capable printers for about $89.

I have the Epson. Though I'm looking at the HP for my next one. I've already been through 2 Epson's (I print a LOT of CD's), and the mechanism just wears out over time. Eventually it stops pulling the CD tray into the printer, then my first one stopped printing on paper.

Sadly the higher end Epson's look like they use the SAME mechanism as my cheapo, they just add dumb things like a screen and media card readers I'll never use.

My burn process is pretty quick though... I create the playlist in iTunes, then burn that in Toast (on the mac), then I use this program called DiscLabel. It can import the playlist track names directly from iTunes and put it in my default CD template. Click print, and it's done.

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Originally posted by JD8180
exactly what he said... i bought a burner not even knowing what lightscribe was, and for only like $25 or so on newegg... still haven't actually used the lightscribe though, don't really care for it much

Sep-24-2007 18:30 United States

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JD8180
I choose noise.

Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Miami, Florida USA

sorry for hijacking the thread, but what are some economical/ink efficient printer models are there that print cds? thinking of printing my cds, so this printer is going to be strictly for that (as in i don't care for photo printing, etc)

Sep-24-2007 18:38 United States

Ryan0751
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: May 2005
Location: Boston, MA

There is the Epson R220 (it might be a new model now), which is like $89/90. Then there is an HP unit, their lowest end one... I saw it at staples.

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Originally posted by JD8180
sorry for hijacking the thread, but what are some economical/ink efficient printer models are there that print cds? thinking of printing my cds, so this printer is going to be strictly for that (as in i don't care for photo printing, etc)

Sep-24-2007 19:03 United States

JD8180
I choose noise.

Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Miami, Florida USA

well, apparantly the two main brands are epson and HP. anyone have experience with the both? i've been reading around on epson printers and i've been seeing a lot of complaints that they eat through the ink really fast... and some of the epson printers now have 6 ink cartridges!