Buyer beware....
At NAB I saw these "silver printable DVDs" that looked really great in the demo. The photo on the DVD would reflect with the light and was really quite beautiful. However, I did not take into account the fact that the demo guy was using a highspeed printer that costs about $2400.00.
I use an Epson R800, which prints great quality on the white printable DVDs and costs ~ $400.00. So, after buying some "silver printable DVDs", and printing from my printer, I did not get the same results as at the NAB demo. Also, even after I waited more than 5 minutes, the ink on the DVD is not dry and smeared (the white ones dry very quickly).
I need to investigate this matter further, but I suspect to be able to get the same quality as the NAB demo, I need to also buy the $2400.00 printer, which is something I can't do ... YET!
** The company doing the demo (and who I bought the DVDs from is MSE Media. The disks are made by a company called Taiyo Yuden and cost about $2.25 each (for a 50 disk spindle). Sorry, don't remember the name of the printer, but you could email jeff@msemedia.com if you want to know about it.
Colleen
At NAB I saw these "silver printable DVDs" that looked really great in the demo. The photo on the DVD would reflect with the light and was really quite beautiful. However, I did not take into account the fact that the demo guy was using a highspeed printer that costs about $2400.00.
I use an Epson R800, which prints great quality on the white printable DVDs and costs ~ $400.00. So, after buying some "silver printable DVDs", and printing from my printer, I did not get the same results as at the NAB demo. Also, even after I waited more than 5 minutes, the ink on the DVD is not dry and smeared (the white ones dry very quickly).
I need to investigate this matter further, but I suspect to be able to get the same quality as the NAB demo, I need to also buy the $2400.00 printer, which is something I can't do ... YET!
** The company doing the demo (and who I bought the DVDs from is MSE Media. The disks are made by a company called Taiyo Yuden and cost about $2.25 each (for a 50 disk spindle). Sorry, don't remember the name of the printer, but you could email jeff@msemedia.com if you want to know about it.
Colleen