CD Duplication

[Phyl]

I've had a few clients ask for CD duplication, small runs, say 20 to 30 CDs.

I contemplated buying a printer that will inkjet print CDs, but started to wonder what sort of hardware other folks are using.

Anyone know much about the options, price points, and quality? Any other issues I should consider? Are CDs with inkjet printing more error prone?

[TimOBrien]

For the last 4 or so years I used an Epson R200 with ZERO problems.

It finally gave up after a great run and now I'm using an HP D5460 ($99 anywhere).
Not thrilled with the cd printing software (I have to design the disk in Photoshop and then import the .jpeg as one whole picture into the HP app, but it works. I would rather print directly from Photoshop or Illustrator/Freehand but haven't been able to figure out how to do it yet and cannot find any templates.)

For short runs, I don't think you can go wrong with an Epson or HP printer...

[Nakatira]

I use these guys.

Kunaki.com

[Pony!]

I can't reccomend enough getting a lightscribe drive. My band and I have been printing discs on a lightscribe drive. It takes a while to print a full image on a cd (say 20-30 minutes per disc) but it looks professional. The biggest limitation is that it can only be in greyscale. To get around that visual limitation we bought discs that came in lots of vibrant colors.