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Is it possible to buy a commercial cd burner/press/printer? I work for a theatre company and we'd like to be able to create profession cd's with images printed onto the cd itself. Copied cd's with stickers work fine, but don't look professional.
UK stockist prefered. Thank you.
Even if you could find that kind of equipment for sale, it would probably be out of your price range.
There are however, companies that own such equipment and will make "pressed" CDs for you. You provode a CDR for them and they duplicate it on to a real CD.
Just keep in mind that your minimum order may be over one thousand CDs. (since you're asking about buying such equipment I doubt you care )
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BTW it cost M$ $66 million dollars to construct & equip the optical manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico (low-cost location of all places) just to manufacture Vista & Office 2007 discs for distribution to retailers in USA . See FACTS.
Is your goal as ambitious as M$?
i_XpUser
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Farmerjoe, I think you are right. That is out of our league at the moment. Probably for quite a while too, unless or recording stuff takes off insanely.
XpUser, sorry no spare cash at the moment. Looks like it's a duplicator and more sticky-back labels for quite some time.
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You're better off staying with the old but dependable method.
The other option is DVD Lightscribe. The drawback is that it takes a very long time for the DVD lightscribe drive to burn non-colored label on the more expensive DVD lightscribe discs.
i_XpUser
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Why don't you buy printable DVDs and a printer that can print directly on DVDs?
Burn the DVDs, print them on the top using the printer's function.
that's what i do with all my DVD-Rs. and when a friend of mine got a dvd, he did not noticied it was a copy.
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I would follow rousou's suggestion. Sticky paper labels are known to promote disc reading problems.
i_XpUser
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And why is that, when the sticker is not on the read side? I don't understand how it could affect it. I just lost all my favorite photos because i put a sticker on the cd.
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It's not a universal problem AFAIK but it does happen to some users. Read the following...
Why sticky labels can screwup the playback of DVDs
i_XpUser
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There was a small company near my home that did just that. I think the minimum was about 500 CD's for a run. The quote for one tech guy making a alt OS was only $5 per on 1K run.
The main cost is in the initial master. The process was shown on a "How it's made" TV show. Quite a complex task but no where near the stated numbers. I'd guess a $100K would get you started on a master process. Send the master out to a fab for pennies a disk.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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You can purchase a CD/DVD printer for as little as $100 (US). Plus the printable disks (offered in both white and silver backgrounds) are very affordable if you buy online.
Epson is the only company (that I know of) which offers a consumer level printer for that task (which is what I own). However, printing a large amount of the same artwork would be time consuming because you have to load each disc individually.
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