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

The Rimage CD Printers offer a variety of printing technologies to suite your printing needs. Read More

The GX Disc Printer by Microboards Technology is one of the most reliable, economical ways to transfer custom images, text and graphics onto CD and DVD top surfaces. This single-disc unit offers users a wide range of convenient and professional features, including portability, Mac and PC compatibility and a manual-input design that produces results for about 20 cents per disc, on average. Read More

The GX line of CD and DVD printers by Microboards Technology is one of the most popular and trusted brands available on the market. Known for producing excellent results at very affordable prices, GX CD and DVD disc printers are available in single-disc and auto-loading, multi-disc versions. Read More

On demand disc publishing has never been easier.  For years offices have struggled with ways to create professional looking discs on-demand.  Well, the solution has arrived.  The Rimage 5400N and 3400, were designed specifically for front office settings and retail applications.  These on demand disc publishers allow single users or workgroups access to publish discs on demand over the network.  The publishers incorporates Rimage's renowned Thermal Everest printer.  The Everest 400 provides full-color or monochrome thermal printing capabilities.  Creating a professional quality disc is now as easy as sending a print job to the printer.

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Thermal ink jet CD label printing and inkjet CD label printing are general terms used for ink jet printing utilizing a nozzle or 'jet' to spray ink in a very precise manner.

• Thermal inkjet
• Pizzo-electric inkjet
• Bubble-jet

 Thermal Inkjet printing heats up the ink to create 'pressure' that causes the ink to spray out of the print head nozzle.

Pizzo-electric uses a device similar to the old 'joy buzzer' that vibrates when electricity is applied to it.  This creates a very precise metered amount of ink to spray out of the print head nozzle.  The effect is a well rounded 'dot' instead of a irregular shaped application.  

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Professional BD, DVD, CD printers

Unlike the home CD printer a professional DVD/CD printer is designed for continuous CD printing and features a built in disc tray that self aligns itself.

The links provide greater information on each DVD CD label printer to avoid a major novel on one page. If you have any questions or observations please give us feedback via the comments. We would love to hear from you. :)

Primera Technology

Primera uses in-line robotics in it's newest offerings. A long way from the old Composer series which had a swinging robotic arm.

Bravo II Auto-loader: Primera's auto-loaders and automated DVD duplicators use a Lexmark print engine. The Bravo II series use a two ink cartridge system. Primera/lexmark ink is proprietary, that is one can only buy Primera 'branded' cartridges. The Bravo II is PC and Mac compatible and connects via a USB cable. Includes disc labeling software. One year warranty

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Surprisingly the cheapest way to print high quality CD-R and DVD-R is to out-source your production.  That is have a service bureau or duplication business do the printing for you.  The price may seem high until one figures in the cost of purchasing CD printer equipment, printable discs and ink.  Also any labor costs need to be figured into the cost. 

Lets move onto some other cheap methods for printing labels.  Probably the most obvious and also the worst method of labeling CDs and DVDS is to use stick on labels.  Several major issues with stick on labels include the glue damaging the recording layer, label peeling off in the player and the unbalancing of the disc while recording and playback. This wobble damages the drive and makes a poor quality copy.

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When asking "what is the best inkjet printer for CDs" there are several additional questions to ask yourself.

• How many discs do you want to produce in a day, week or month?
• Will you be doing full color printing or just text and simple graphics?
• Are you looking for a dedicated CD printer or a multi function printer? 

The quantity of discs you want to produce has a large influence on the type of inkjet CD printer you are going to need. There are three types of CD inkjet printers.

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 Here are a few more questions we have been asked about CD printers. Labeling your CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray recordable discs is a great way to give a professional look to your projects.

 

Can you use an inkjet printer on thermal dvd?

Yes and no, You can use it but it does not dry and just smudges. Inkjet sprays a dye and thermal applies a wax based resin to the disc. If you don't want a mess buy inkjet printable discs.

Can I put labels on printable dvd?

 You can put labels on printable DVDs but it's not recommended.  Stick on labels are a bad idea with DVDs. 

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People are often surprised to find out that a silver inkjet printable surface is available for CD-R and DVD-R and DVD+R. The more common white inkjet CDs or DVD is far more common and has a noticeably different printed label result. White provides an excellent background to most colors and helps make the colors really pop from the label printer. The white surface is applied in a single layer and has no real "depth" to it. It does provide a base white background to the image. White inkjet printable discs are used the most in our experience.

Silver inkjet CDs are meant to mimic a shiny silver thermal printable disc .  Shiny silver discs have a mirror like finish to them.  When they are printed on, the print appears to hover above the reflective surface because there is a clear coat the ink sits on.

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A very confusing term for CD label printers is the use of the word “thermal”.  In this article I will explain the difference between thermal inkjet and inkjet as related to CD labeling.

The first thing to understand is thermal direct printing and thermal inkjet are not related in anyway except for the fact that they are both CD/DVD printing methods.  One can not print on thermal printable disc media with a ‘thermal’ inkjet printer unless you want a big smear of ink on your disc.  The printable media for thermal printing and thermal inkjet printing are completely different. Inkjet printable media absorbs ink unlike thermal printable discs that are designed not to absorb ink.

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June 27, 2005: MF Digital Introduces Their Latest CD / DVD Ink Jet Printer
(E. Farmingdale NY --- June 27, 2005) - MF Digital has introduced its own proprietary inkjet printer based on HP 5650 technology. By combining the HP 3 pico-liter ink technology with MF Digital's proven mechanisms, the PicoJet delivers photo-quality graphics and laser quality text to in-house producers of CDs and DVDs.
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