In today's business arena, it is more important than ever to project an image that attracts potential customers and clients. Businesses go to great lengths to make sure that they're professionally groomed and personally prepared, but it's important that you make sure that all your business paraphernalia look polished and professional, too. You may have taken the time with your printed materials and they look great, but what about your digital based information? Are you making a lasting impression with your employees, vendors and clients when you disseminate your organization's digital assets? Printable CD technology helps you achieve you goals. Read More

CD printers serve the purpose of labeling a CD. When we talk about CDs we are referring to CD-R or CD recordable. CD printers can be used on other types of optical media like recordable DVD and recordable Blu-ray. This is distinguished by the term "printable". Thus the terms: printable CD, printable DVD and printable BD-R. Read More

One of the great challenges to burning your own DVDs is how you label them. Certainly the old standby, a sharpie pen can be used but that solution leaves much to be desired. Sharpie pens use solvent based ink. This ink can attack some protective coatings on CDs however DVDs are constructed differently then CDs so the solvent would need to breakdown the polycarbonate layer (recordable DVDs are a sandwich of two polycarbonate discs glued together with the reflective and dye layer as the "meat". So as far as DVDs go Sharpies are not going to damage the dye layer but may damage a printable layer specific to inkjet printing which is outside the sandwich and applied to the top of the DVD recordable. That is more a cosmetic issue then something to be concerned with. Read More