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    Default Can Printers Print on discs?

    Like Blank discs?
    If so how? cause obviously this here was printed:
    ttp://cgi.ebay.com/Sega-Dreamcast-Ultimate-Collection-Rareities_W0QQitemZ160199904856QQihZ006QQcategoryZ 4303QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    You will notice Half Life is there which can be easily burnt.

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    Just go to a computer store and ask what printers they have that support printing on discs.

    Some printers (like this) come with a separate tray that feeds the disc through a printer.
    Chuck in any bank media described as printable (white top obviously) like these and your done.

    There are small scale commercial devices made just to burn/print on discs but a normal printer that has a disc tray is what most people would use.

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    With LightScribe you can even use your CD burner to print on a CDR/DVDR. However, the one in the picture looks like it's just printed on a label.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christuserloeser View Post
    With LightScribe you can even use your CD burner to print on a CDR/DVDR. However, the one in the picture looks like it's just printed on a label.
    Don't those require media with some sort of reactive coating on the label side of the disc? I almost bought one once because they look pretty awesome, but then realized that I didn't really need that feature very often and it's a lot easier to pay a company to press discs if I need a bunch of professional-looking CDs.

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    ^^ i have one and the pic takes about 10 mins to print on best quality and it $#@!s out black and wateva colour the disk is

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    Quote Originally Posted by OneThirty8 View Post
    Don't those require media with some sort of reactive coating on the label side of the disc? I almost bought one once because they look pretty awesome, but then realized that I didn't really need that feature very often and it's a lot easier to pay a company to press discs if I need a bunch of professional-looking CDs.
    Litescribe you do. There is another one called T@2 that came out earlier that you don't, but it takes up writable space on your disc.
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    get a CD Printer type printer. i have one that formats the image to wrap around the CD and print it to a printable CD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by quzar View Post
    Litescribe you do. There is another one called T@2 that came out earlier that you don't, but it takes up writable space on your disc.
    I just looked those up on google. That seems more like a 'novelty-factor' thing rather than a way for a band or small company to create professional-looking discs on CD-R. Also, if you have a few hundred megabytes of data, you're not leaving much room for artwork since it prints on the record-side of the disc. They still look pretty cool, though--I could see using that to label music CDs that I burned for my own use rather than writing on them with a Sharpie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OneThirty8 View Post
    I just looked those up on google. That seems more like a 'novelty-factor' thing rather than a way for a band or small company to create professional-looking discs on CD-R. Also, if you have a few hundred megabytes of data, you're not leaving much room for artwork since it prints on the record-side of the disc. They still look pretty cool, though--I could see using that to label music CDs that I burned for my own use rather than writing on them with a Sharpie.
    Oh definetly. But the same can be said of lightscribe . The discs are at least 3x more expensive, and relatively few burners support them. Any smart small company would imply use printable discs or a labeller sticker set.
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