cd duplicators and printers

[sharedon]

Anyone have recommendations for professional CD duplicators and CD printers? I work for an archive which produces listening copies for researchers (with permission from rightsholders, of course) on CD. I'd like to be able to reproduce discs more efficiently and avoid stick-on labels.

[RetroSmith]

There is a somewhat inexpensive printer that prints the info right on the Cd itself, but if I remember correctly, you have to use special CDRs. Which is sort of a bummer.

[mudbone]

Hi Don, are you looking to do this in-house (yourself) or have an outside company do this for you?

mud-

[sharedon]

In house all the way! A seat o' the pants operation, to be sure....

[mudbone]

Originally posted by sharedon
In house all the way! A seat o' the pants operation, to be sure....

Epson makes printers (and adaptors) to print on cds. American-Digital sells TY cds that you can print on.

Lemme look them up. I bought some when they had a sale altho I do not have a printer or adaptor to handle that yet.

Try these:

http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/category.asp?c=93

The 2nd and 3rd allow you to print on them. Taiyo Yuden is good stuff.

mud-:D

[mudbone]

Here's an Epson with the adaptor for printing onto cds:

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=31061922&BV_SessionID=@@@@0228557575.1064784801@@ @@&BV_EngineID=gadcighighjmbfdmcfjgckidnk.0

mud-:D

[ascot]

I've seen the Epson at Office Depot. I would like to know how well these work before I'd even consider getting one. I need a new printer anyway.

[mudbone]

Originally posted by ascot
I've seen the Epson at Office Depot. I would like to know how well these work before I'd even consider getting one. I need a new printer anyway.

There's a tray you put the cd in. That's all I know!

:laugh:

mud-:D

[ascot]

Yep, that part I got! :laugh:

[mudbone]

Originally posted by ascot
Yep, that part I got! :laugh:

We're half-way home!:laugh:

Maybe they'd do a demo?

mud-:D

[EC3970]

We shopped around for a good duplicator here where I work and picked up a primera with a signature pro printer. It writes two discs at once and prints a label all automatically - but it has never worked perfect. The automated features, picking up and moving discs, is really touchy. As for the printer it does a beautiful job (if the disc lands centered) but ink from these things are not water proof.

http://www.microboards.com/current/products/images/composerxl_autoprinter.jpg

Looks close to this except there are two disc drives in front

[Dave]

Guy, what's one of those worth?

[EC3970]

The price was absurd. $4000 for a basic unit but we got upgrades to copy DVDs (although we never did) close to $8000 my brother tells me, although I can't remember it costing that much.
We were burning lots of data discs and it paid for itself quickly. But we could only use one write drawer then print unsupervised, two drawers writing always messed up. It's like a toy train set that you always need to fuss with.
The printer sells separately for (I think) $1500. I used it to print labels on my own CD-Rs for awhile but one drop of water from a drink in the car would completely wipe them out. That's my warning for a CD printer that uses standard ink cartridges.

That was nearly two years ago, maybe the price has dropped now, DVD writers were new then.