Primera Bravo II printer

[Ken Fenner]

I have a Primera Bravo I DVD/CD duplicator and printer and find it brilliant. I do short runs of DVD’s and CDs as part of my video and music business. Recently duplicated and printed 200 CDs in a day (copy and verify every time), loading up 25 at a time (max without the optional extra feature).
I could not imagine how awkward this would be feeding 1 at a time through my Epson R800 printer. Just load, run and forget.
My CD and DVD’s now look much more professional than using labels.
Next is to consider if additional cost of laminating is worth it. No-one has yet complained of ink running but this is always possible with inkjet printed discs.
Only concern I have, but may be same as all other makes of duplicator printers, is the single source cartridges which appear expensive against equivalent looking HP ones.
Ken

[John Frey – digital west video productions]

After 1.5 years of constant problems with Epson 960, R200 and R300’s disc printers, I recently researched and purchased a Primera Bravo Pro system($2,500.00). This unit has two Plextor 16X DVD Burners and can handle up to 100 disc loads at a time plus print. We easily completed a 500 disc run with no problems. Got a low ink warning at about the 450 disc mark and changed to a new cartridge ($41.00), although it may have finished printing the order. It averages about 3.5 minutes per DVD to burn and print, based upon a full capacity DVD source and a medium print setting. This morning completed a 300 disc CD order with no printing. The source disc was about 260 megs. Each disc burned in an about 1.5 minutes at 48x. From the reviews and from this first experience, the Pro unit gets very high marks.

[Aanarav Sareen]

Hector,

What kind of problems are you having? If your unit is still under warranty, demand a new unit or a tray. The replaced my R200 with a new “revision” and did not have the tray loading problem.

Aanarav Sareen
Adobe Certfied Expert, Premiere Pro
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/video

[Paul Patton]

I use the Bravo 2 CD/DVD duplicator/printer and love it. No problems have kiosk so can do 50 disk runs at a time. set it and forget it. if runn is larger than 50, reload until finished, technical support has answered any questions within a day.(no problems with printer) Just needed answers to questions on network stup as you can get a 5 user lisence.

paul

[Hector Melendez]

Thanks all for the feedback…
Aanarav: the problem with the R200 is that it won’t eject the tray at all and have to be reset everytime… this printer for the price is good but for large quantities is not adecuate. It need to be attended constanstly to see if the process going ok… for 3 or 4 disc is ok.

[Creig Bryan]

I’ve heard there’s a small sense switch on the 200, that gets slightly out-of-whack, and causes the tray problems you describe. A simple adjustment is required. If you’re a tinkerer, you could probably locate and adjust it. If not, that fancy Bravo burner/printer looks like a good, more complete solution.

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