DVD Printers

[drfsupercenter]

What are the benefits/disadvantages of the R200/220?

BTW I am not the one buying it, I will be sending this list to the people who buy me gifts. I obviously have other stuff on there too, like DVDs and some music CDs.

[celtic_druid]

A half decent colour thermal printer is a couple of grand. More if you want robotics.

As for colour inkjet printers, I would suggest a Canon, but you are in the US so it is Epson or Epson. As for smearing, etc. There are protective sprays that make the disc water/sun resistant or new blanks coming out that are waterproof.

[atifsh]

Does the R220 print in color?

being a color photo printer it does that

i own R210 same as R200 for US.
works great, nice photos on photopapers that dont fade or somwhat waterfroof aswelll, never tried it .
it has function to print direct on dvd's but i havnt tried that as not easy to hold onto lightscribe disks.

only problems i can find are...... expensive ink, 2 colors out of six usually goes way to fast, head is in the printer and now after year its begining to get dirty as now i get bad results, banding somtimes and have to use higest quality for printing to fix it.

my other photoprinter is HP 7760 with LCD and it prints good too, one thing i like bout it is i can choose to print vibrant colors aswell [more ink ofcourse]
change the cartridge and head is changed too the only big goody in it.

[drfsupercenter]

Does it smear for you atifsh? I don't want my ink smearing, but I want it to look good.

[drfsupercenter]

Hey, here is an article in PC Magazine about the printers, it seems to like the R220 too... but it said that the printing cost was high. See the article here:

http://www.agigforimages.com/images/drfsupercenter/pcmag1.jpg

http://www.agigforimages.com/images/drfsupercenter/pcmag2.jpg

http://www.agigforimages.com/images/drfsupercenter/pcmag3.jpg

Each pic is a seperate page... sorry about the hugeness of it, you may have to zoom in to read it. Apparently my camera didn't rotate them like I told it too, so either rotate them in Photoshop or tilt your head

Somehow the colors on the R220 don't look as vibrant as they should... is it always like that?

[NightbladeXX]

DRF, I too am running an Epson R200, I bought at Wally world for $80 last year, no problems cept some printable discs. The DVD tray sometimes wont take, but thats a minor nuisance.

Otherwise it prints great on Verbatims, and I buy the epson ink from amazon as I tried some of the cheaper one and couldnt notice a difference print wise but had problems once the cartidges would get down to about 25% so I figure that the more expansive Epson are better for me

prints fast too in black / white draft printing for normal day use too

nB

[Derree]

I think I will just stick with the cheapest form of labeling discs......A black sharpie marker

[atifsh]

Does it smear for you atifsh?

only once when i used a really really rerally really really cheap photo paper .
never on a decent to good photo paper, i never printed on dvd's, i use it to print my digicam pics.
i mostly use konica papers now.

[drfsupercenter]

I mean on discs... I got a photo printer, that works fine.

[scooter1556]

The r200, R220 is not designed to print onto non-printable discs, the ink will smear, however i have an R200 and have had for a good year and a half and it is superb, the quality for photo and cd printing is stunning and it is fast. The printer is designed to print onto white printable discs or silver printable discs which give the same effect as a plain CD/DVD with black text, for standard non-printable media a good old fashioned sharpy is the best thing to use!! the R200 is a great printer tho, Jettec and Datasafe compatible cartridges work fine with it aswell.

[drfsupercenter]

So what are you saying? It will or won't smear on printable discs?

[Jack Lurker]

It wont smear on printable, it will on non-printable. Although for some reason I have never tried to print on non-printable disc's.................

[drfsupercenter]

Thanks. So I cound rub it with my finger, or even my shirt (to clean the disc) and it won't smear?

[scooter1556]

I have never had a printable cd that has smeared, as long as the disc is left for a few minutes once it has been printed on they have always been spot on. None of them have even faded!

[drfsupercenter]

Will they wash off in water? Or cleaning solution? Cuz when I clean the discs I don't want the labels coming off.