What's best CD-labeling kit?

[George]

Have seen some CD's that look like they were professionally screen printed.
Is there a simple kit (brand? name? label#?) from local office supply store
that everyone uses to do this, to get sort-of glossy, screen-printed look.

Looks like the Avery CD-labels are plain paper, which it would seem would
give a sort of an unglossy home-made amateur look if printed on a color
printer. Agree, or am I missing something?

There's another one that says it prints shiny metallic labels, anyone try
this?

Thanks

 

[Bob I]

You buy a printer that you stick the CD in and it prints the label
directly on the CD. No paper.

 

[Randall Arnold]

I'd avoid paper/plastic labels on high-speed CDROMs and DVDs. Tends to
throw them off balance, which can wreak havoc on your disks and players.

Go with the direct printers as the other gentleman suggested.

Randall Arnold

 

[George]

Thank you both. Would this be a specialized printer? Do they typically
print on more than just CD's like regular paper? Are there some popular
ones that you would recommend, and a rough idea of price. I just bought a
fairly nice HP all-in-one, just to get color, scan, and fax (we use a
regular laserjet for most things, though). But this HP doesn't mention
CD's. Is there any workaround? Thanks

 

[math1]

epson makes them.
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=31061922
Anne

| Thank you both. Would this be a specialized printer? Do they typically
| print on more than just CD's like regular paper? Are there some popular
| ones that you would recommend, and a rough idea of price. I just bought a
| fairly nice HP all-in-one, just to get color, scan, and fax (we use a
| regular laserjet for most things, though). But this HP doesn't mention
| CD's. Is there any workaround? Thanks
|
|

 

[George]

In the meantime (before buying a CD label printer), got any recommendations
on a good quality (reasonably professional looking) brand/type of CD-label
that can be run through regular color (or laser) printer, preferably glossy?
Thanks,
George

 

[Bob I]

In the short term I would stick to what is recommended by the printer
manufacturer. Lasers get HOT and that is bad for some labels as they
will peel off inside the printer(you don't even want to think about
digging that mess out)