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DVD delivery to client-What do you use?
I would like some feedback on how people deliver DVD’s to clients. Do you print on the DVD, and if so, what printer set up do you use? Or do you use stick on labels? Or do you just have another source do it for you, a DVD duplicator/replicator? What advice can you help me out with? Thanks.
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NEVER use stick-on labels. EVER. Go inkjet or thermal or lightscribe instead.
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We use stick on labels for most of our DVDs for small quantities. Never had one problem. For larger orders we send them out to a local company which imprints directly on the DVD.
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We do short run duplication and we use a Primera printer/publisher to produce our DVD’s. It works great for small quantity, anything below 1000. You would also need a duplicator. Setup cost for equipment would run about $2000 on the cheap end upward of $10,000 for higher quality production. It depends on how many and how frequently your are producing DVD’s.
Alan Smith
Media317Check out my blog – https://media317.com
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The day one of those labels lifts off just a little while spinning inside a (soon to be former) client’s drive… well, there are 2 kinds of people: those who already regret using stick-ons, and those who will, someday. 🙂
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Awesome, thanks for all the answers. I’m only doing 1-5 at a time. I’m probably going to stay away from the stick on labels. I agree with you Mark, I don’t ever want anything to happen with it coming off.
Daniel
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PLEASE don’t use stick on labels. You want a test to prove it? Put a label on all the way, and rub it on like you normally would. Now, use a knife or key or something to peel an edge back, and rip the label off. I’ll bet you money your whole CD comes with it, and you are left with a clear plastic disc where your CD was. Just the thought of that being possible so easily just screams for troubles in the long run. If you have to do it on the cheap, Epson and HP both make printers with CD trays that do a fine job. Buy the inkjet printible Taiyo Yuden’s, it’s worth it.
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I’ll second that: NEVER use stick-ons for DVDs. For the small runs you speak of, the cheap Epson Photo R280 is a terrific, economical solution, combined with those white, printable Taiyo Yuden’s, which are extremely reliable. Let your Google fingers do the searching for the best prices.
Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
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The cheap way:
Buy an Epson Printer, I think the latest to print DVDs is the Artisan 800. There are other…
For DVD media. The most reliable, non smudging media I’ve found so far at an affordable cost is the Taiyo Yuden Water Shield. Beautiful glossy finish, and waterproof (up to a certain point).
Most others I’ve tried will get sticky and really never dry.
NO LABELS!
The best way: Primera Bravo system.
Vince Becquiot
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The cheapest DVD-printing Epson I can find is the Epson Artisan 50, for $100 at Amazon. The one I have, the Epson Photo R280, which I like a lot for small-batch DVD printing, is currently $133 through Amazon.
Rick Wise
director of photography
San Francisco Bay Area
and part-time instructor lighting and camera
grad school, SF Academy of Art University/Film and Video
https://www.RickWiseDP.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwise
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com -
Epson makes a couple of different versions. We have an Artisan 800 and it has an automatic tray, the old ones were an absolute pain to load, would be faster to hand paint the damn DVD.
All in all, if budget is an issue, I would look at eBay for a used Bravo SE publisher for around $500-600, will burn and print automatically up to 20 discs. These things are pretty amazing for the cost.
The only downside is that they only use one cartridge for color vs 5 with Epson, so there is a huge waste if you do a run in one particular prominent color.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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