Hi,

I have alot of +R and -R thermal printable media.

I was wondering what your guys opinion was on thermal printers, or are inkjet CD/DVD printers better.

I already have a all in one printer that I am happy with so if I got another inkjet printer I would just use it for printing on DVD's, Plus I would have to get inkjet printable media.

What's the Pros and Cons of Thermal CD/DVD Printers ??

Thanks...

Whats thermal printable media? I thought that thermal printers would print on any regular disk?
As far as I know, the draw back of thermal are that they can usally just do a text window and if they can do graphics, they are usally kind of crappy (at least on the cheap ones). None of the cheap ones that I am aware of can print the whole disk. The advantage is that you can print on any disk (just got 6 50 packs of verbatium 16x for 58$ including tax price matched at office max, lets see you find printable media anywhere near that price, even on sale).

Inkjet printable can print decent looking graphics across the whole disk (looks a lot beter than a small text window) but of course the drawback is the expensive printable media.

Thats my understanding of the diffrence anyway.

We have seen one report of an older thermal printer that was cooking discs due to large graphics being printed onto them. I doubt this is an issue with newer thermal printers. Thermal printers are really only capable of text and simple graphics. Mostly single-color. There's a few of them listed at www.rima.com .