There are three common "on-demand" professional CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc printing technologies that exist today. The technologies are ink jet, thermal and CD printing with a variation called dye-sublimation transfer printing. Read More

Rimage Media Kits offer superior performance and exceptional convenience at a competitive price — just what you'd expect from the world leader in quality publishing solutions. Read More

Rimage Corporation offers inkjet printing technology with the Rimage 480i.™  The Rimage 480i offers affordable CD and DVD discs in a wide range of colors, resulting in vivid graphics and sharp, easy-to-read text. Read More

Rimage Corporation thermal CD printers for efficient, cost-effective business applications. Read More

Rimage disc publishing, duplication and printing systems (hardware, software and consumables) provide best quality disc printing and publishing results. Whether you are using Rimage thermal DVD printers, CD printers, BD printers or Rimage inkjet disc printers, using Rimage ink, Rimage ribbons, Rimage hardware and Rimage software together is the best way to optimize your results and to guard against workflow disruptions. Read More

Rimage's exclusive thermal transfer technology is designed specifically for your CD or DVD printing. The Rimage Prism Plus uses an indelible thermal process — no drying or curing time. It has rugged durability for 24-hour, 7-day use. Read More

An extremely important point on CD labels is to use some kind of printing method outside of using stick-on labels. Stick on labels are just as bad for recordable DVDs. A misapplied label unbalances the disc (it does not take much) making it prone to errors and damaging the drive in the process.Stick-on labels have come off in CD players and easily jam up car stereos with slot loaders. A CD label maker is the solution.

The choices for printing on a recordable CD is based on several factors. Budget, how much money do you want to spend?, What is the usage you expect from the disc printer? and how involved to you want to be in the printing process?

The on-demand disc printer technologies available fall into 4 categories: thermal transfer, thermal re transfer, dye sublimation and inkjet printing.

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Labeling your CDs or DVDs presents some interesting choices in finding the most cost effective option.  Some of the options include using a thermal or inkjet CD printer, a magic marker pen or stick-on labels.  A non-printing method, called "lightscribe" provides the ability to label a special type of disc that is made with a unique coating on the label side that is sensitive to laser light (similar to the recordable dye which also changes color when exposed to laser light at a special frequency).

Lightscribe technology uses a special recording drive that can etch the label image into a special Lightscribe DVD or CD disc.   This process only works in gray scale so one does not actually have any colors on the label. It's simply black and variations of gray with a colored background, usually a gold color.

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