If it is as dull looking as my R300, try setting it to Premium CD Surface, Photo Quality, Photo Enhance and set the ink density to + 1. Then run it through a second time at a slightly lower setting and it should look almost as good as a label.

John

While it may be a waste of ink, I save old CD's including those AOL discs, put a paper label on both sides and use them as test discs in my Primera Pro.

A friend tells me that his Epson does not have sufficient clearance to print a disc with a paper label, so try at your own risk, perhaps with just a label on one side.

Aside from flesh tones, many labels do not have to have faithful color reproduction.

If it helps to know the Epson R300 will print on a disk with a paper label on one side with no problem. Haven't tried labels on both sides though.

Mark

If you want to get consistent results, you should create an ICC Color Profile for your printing device, when printing on inkjet DVD surfaces. Do a search on "ICC Windows color profile calibration" on Google and you should find a site that describes how to do this.

This will also help improve the matching between your monitor colors and the color your printer puts on your discs. Be aware, however, that there each device has a different "gamut," that is the range of colors, and the intensity of colors that it is capable of printing. No device can produce every hue of the rainbow, up to the maximum intensity allowed by nature. One of the challenges that the Windows ICC technology attempts to address is how to "map" these different gamuts from one device to another. It does a pretty good job, but the underlying differences, and the limited gamut of most inkjet printers, makes it impossible to ever to get exactly what you see on the screen onto your disc.

I wouldn't think that printing on a paper label would be a very good indication of how printing on the disc would turn out. Printing on a paper label on a disc is almost the same as printing on a sheet of paper, and not anything like printing directly on the disc.

I think it varies with the paper label and with the brand of printable disc. I usually just use the paper label test to determine alignment, etc.

Primera does sell cardboard test discs, but they are not entirely cheap. I don't know if they have made an effort to match the appearance of a printed test disc to that of their private label discs. It might be worth asking the question if color accuracy is critical to the work being done.

The cardboard discs are no match to the printable surface on a CD or DVD. If you take a CD with a paper label on it, A piece of paper, A cardboard CD, and a inkjet printable CD and print the exact same image on it, using the same printer and settings, all 3 of them will look completely diffrent. There isn't much you can do about it, just the nature of the beast. Even if you use diffrent brands of inkjet printable media the image will most likely look completely diffrent.