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DVD delivery to client-What do you use?
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I am going to respectfully disagree with Vince. I have had problems printing DVDs with an earlier version of the Epson Photo R280, but none at all with the R280 itself. It’s a breeze to use to print DVDs, once you understand the directions. Yes, you will have to read the directions — none of us like to do that. For the price, this Epson is one fine printer.
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 -
Rick,
I could be mistaken, but isn’t that the model that requires that you carefully line up the tray everytime?
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Vince, the model R200 had a difficult-to-line-up tray. That’s the model I used to have, and made it work until it died. The R280 has a very simple, clear slot and is a breeze to line up. You open the door, lift the drop-down tray up out of its normal print slot, reinsert it in the marked space above that. The printer whirs around a bit and is ready. You place the DVD in a tray very similar to the one on the R200 but this time slide it into the clearly marked, easy-to-use slots in the flop-down tray, and push it in until the arrows line up. Super easy.
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 -
Yes, and actually the one we had was the rx280, nor r280, it was the same as the 200, awful design, and always seemed to a bit off.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Primera Disc Publisher Pro with Taiyo Yuden glossy discs. Hmm, things seem to be repeating themselves.
We went through a variety of robotic systems, but they were slow and unreliable.
We recently picked up a 15 disc at a time duper from Discmakers. Awesome, fast and reliable. Blows away the duping thoughput of robotic dupers.
Anything over 1000 we use Cinemagnetics or Princeton Disc.
One-off discs for a review copy of something gets a printed label with our company logo. Much more professional than a Sharpie.
Put your best foot forward no matter what you do.
Mike Cohen
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I use an Epson Photo RX-580, now replaced by the 680. Works like a charm. Somewhat slow, but for short runs it’s fine. I’ve used TDK and Verbatim printable DVD-Rs for years with never a failure. The label software that comes with the printer is fine for most jobs. Be warned, print jobs with photos or lots of color do suck up a lot of ink on the Epson. I don’t know about the HP for comparison.
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I don’t know how long that was Mike, but ours is very reliable.
We get about 1 DVD every 3 minutes which isn’t bad with a low end publisher and single burner. I’ve heard of issues with previous models, but ours has been doing very well, I assume things were solved with firware upgrades.
The cost is about 90 cents per DVD (minus the unit of course with full coverage on TY. The print quality is top notch and smudge free on watershields.
Compare that to $4.00 plus 1 week+ turnaround with Discmakers, and not being to see the result before you get it back, at least not without paying $20.00 for a proof; did I mention shipping?.
We do use these guys for large dups jobs of course but I love the convenience of being to turn around 50 to 100 DVDs the next day.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Just throwing my 2 cents in here as I’ve been struggling with this issue too as a start up events business. Originally tried to use Lightscribe and that was terrible. Tried numerous brands of discs, different software and saying different prayers and the only thing that was consistent was unsatisfying results. I gave up. Bought an HP Photoshop Premium all in one for $249 at Costco. Very poor instructions, but once I figured it out and created the right template in Photoshop it admittedly printed BEAUTIFUL labels (I was using Sony stock). Problem was the software and the machine were glitchy, one or the other causing frequent crashes. Then I discovered that Costco had overpriced it by $75 so I took it back and have been searching out the “right” printer ever since. Epson seems to be the leader in this, major complaint seems to be the way they suck ink, the HP sucked it too, I’d say it was running about $0.70 per full color photo print on disc, but at least with HP if it runs out of one color you can keep printing, apparently that is not the case with Epson. I guess Canon has some good units they sell in Europe but they’re not selling any of them here.
I wish I could find the Artisan 50 for $100 like Rick saw. Right now on Amazon it’s $160, the R280 is $199 and the Rx680 (looks nice) is a whopping $649. I know this doesn’t sound like a lot to some of you but when you look at the list of things I “need” to buy, from extra batteries to lights to software upgrades etc, every buck counts. I have a color laser printer and a stand alone scanner so I don’t really need this for anything but DVD printing, but at $160 for the Artisan 50 I get confused as I have seen the Artisan 800 for $150, my concern there being that it’s software may not work with Snow Leopard. Anyone know? Any more suggestions? It takes a lot of searching to find the models that do this.
Best,
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
Just throwing my 2 cents in here as I’ve been struggling with this issue too as a start up events business. Originally tried to use Lightscribe and that was terrible. Tried numerous brands of discs, different software and saying different prayers and the only thing that was consistent was unsatisfying results. I gave up. Bought an HP Photoshop Premium all in one for $249 at Costco. Very poor instructions, but once I figured it out and created the right template in Photoshop it admittedly printed BEAUTIFUL labels (I was using Sony stock). Problem was the software and the machine were glitchy, one or the other causing frequent crashes. Then I discovered that Costco had overpriced it by $75 so I took it back and have been searching out the “right” printer ever since. Epson seems to be the leader in this, major complaint seems to be the way they suck ink, the HP sucked it too, I’d say it was running about $0.70 per full color photo print on disc, but at least with HP if it runs out of one color you can keep printing, apparently that is not the case with Epson. I guess Canon has some good units they sell in Europe but they’re not selling any of them here.
I wish I could find the Artisan 50 for $100 like Rick saw. Right now on Amazon it’s $160, the R280 is $199 and the Rx680 (looks nice) is a whopping $649. I know this doesn’t sound like a lot to some of you but when you look at the list of things I “need” to buy, from extra batteries to lights to software upgrades etc, every buck counts. I have a color laser printer and a stand alone scanner so I don’t really need this for anything but DVD printing, but at $160 for the Artisan 50 I get confused as I have seen the Artisan 800 for $150, my concern there being that it’s software may not work with Snow Leopard. Anyone know? Any more suggestions? It takes a lot of searching to find the models that do this.
Best,
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
I print directly on the DVD with an Epson R200 and watershield discs. Get my discs from Meritline.
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