I have the R800 and have been using it for over three years now with no issues. The print heads have held up well and all my DVD's still look good.

This exact topic has been discussed on this forum a lot, for instance:

DVD printer needed after R200 no longer prints

Under NO circumstances should you get an Epson R260. While it produces great looking results, it insist on dumping ink every so often. When it does, you lose 1/4 of all the ink in all the cartridges. At $80 for a set of 6, that's $20 down the drain (or into the sponge). It also jams all the time.

I strongly suggest you look at Amazon's reviews of this printer and compare it to the others that I suggest in this thread:

Needed DVD Face printer

Everything I read says that the Canon printer mentioned is the one to get.

You will need to open the unit and clean all parts with warm water dipped
Q-Tips. WEAR DISPOSABLE GLOVES for obvious reasons.

There is/was a white foam pad to the right side that absorbs ALOT of ink.
This needs to be cleaned out as it will contaminate the carriage once full.

Once everything is clean you will need to go on the internet and follow the
http://inksupply.helpserve.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=106reset waste counter procedure[/link]. You may also need to get white grease
and lube the silver rod the carriage slides on and any gears that are dry (no grease
showing).

If you have to get a new printer, I second Don on the R800. Very good prints. There should be a replacement for the R800 pretty soon if you can wait. That would be a good reason to work on your 200 for now.

Even the 200 & 220 dump ink. I have one of each where I've rerouted the waste tube outside the printer to a small Glad disposable food container and it seems like every time it powers on a little glub glub of black ink spurts out into the container. Other than that, and resetting the counters, they're working good along with the Reliant Digital ink caddies. I just ordered an R260 from ebay that is supposed to be new in box, will also use it with an ink caddie as a 3rd printer as I do expect one or both of these current ones to keel over any day. We've run thousands of dvds through them.

I have the R800 and have been using it for over three years now with no issues.

Me too I have one R800 and 2 Canon IP5300. The only drawback I find on the Epson R800 is that is uses 8 different cartriges.
The speed and printquality is the same on the Epson and Canon - the only drawback I find on Canon is that for every 3 discs it needs 5-10 sec. to initialize or something.
I have a backcomming job for a client with 200 discs every batch, so It's a bid of a pain, but I can sure live with it.

/Ulf

Ulf,

a run that large you might want to outsource and replicate.
I use CDTechnical.com but you may find a closer company.

We've used a Bravo II for the past several years. Works like a dream. At $1200 or so it's a good purchase if your volume is high enough. We use it for runs up to 100 or so, then use a replication house for higher volumes.

Jack

I bought an R280 from www.printonadime.com and they have a continuous ink system that is bunded with some cartridges. It voids the printer warranty to use 3rd party ink but has worked pretty well so far, around 30 discs printed.

Once in a while the printer reports a decidely wrong error like "no ink in any cartridge" when there is clearly ink in them from the 4 oz bottles. Checking that the cartridges are properly seated and a reboot seemed to fix it tho.

Much cheaper than the next step of buying that $1,200 disc printing system for the small runs ...