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| Registered: April 7, 2007 |  Posts: 69 |
| | Posted: | | | | According to the "writing on the box", CD Stomper says NOT to use CD labels on DVD's, but use the labels designed for DVD's. What would the difference be? CD's and DVD's are made with the same type of exterior plastic coating aren't they? I suspect a marketing ploy, as the DVD labels are more expensive than the CD labels. I know this is a crazy concept, but is CD Stomper trying to dupe me into wasting money in order to increase their profits? LOL!
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CadetStimpy: Quote:
According to the "writing on the box", CD Stomper says NOT to use CD labels on DVD's, but use the labels designed for DVD's. What would the difference be? CD's and DVD's are made with the same type of exterior plastic coating aren't they? I suspect a marketing ploy, as the DVD labels are more expensive than the CD labels. I know this is a crazy concept, but is CD Stomper trying to dupe me into wasting money in order to increase their profits? LOL!
Mike Using ANY label on a DVD is playing with fire. In the digital world, timing is everything. Stick-on labels of any kind can alter the balance of a DVD, causing it to have timing problems, and then you've got a disc that doesn't play properly. | | | John
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Posts: 117 |
| | Posted: | | | | I stopped using labels long ago for that very reason. I had one become so unbalanced that it actually broke apart in my drive. Now I only use my photo printer and print directly onto the disc. Epson makes a printer that prints directly onto the disc and it costs about 90 bucks its the R260. Printable CDs and DVDs don't cost anymore than regular discs. You can get white or silver or even gold printable ones. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Like verdejt said - just use printable DVDs. My canon prints very nicely on them and since the dvds are the same cost its a no brainer.  | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | I buy my DVD's and labels from http://meritline.com/ I use meritline CD/DVD matte labels. I use Surething CD/DVD label program which starter out with CD Stomper so many years ago.
CD stomper program now is crap but I would recommend anyone to go to ebay and look for the CD stomper applicator. I believe you can get it for $4 or so. It is the best.
All you do is print a label, then peel it, place it face down on sticky side up on the applicator then take your cd/dvd face side down and press.
I have uses labels on CD's and DVD's no problems.
Surething 5 is the best program for making CD/DVD labels allows you to use any labels out there or make your own. | | | | Last edited: by Randall_Lind |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Randall_Lind: Quote:
All you do is print a label, then peel it, place it face down on sticky side up on the applicator then take your cd/dvd face side down and press.
I have uses labels on CD's and DVD's no problems.
why not just buy printable dvds in the 1st place? You are going to a lot of trouble for nothing when the printable dvds are the same cost as non printable ones. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 291 |
| | Posted: | | | | well, if he's anything like me, this label business started with CDs before the printable versions existed and one had already bought a big and expensive printer to do the job and even though the printers that print on cds/dvds and less expensive now there's a matter of where the blueblazes am i gonna put another printer since the old 36" tube tv took over my desk and the action figures and the dvds have taken over the rest of the apartment. maybe that's why. krik  | | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,203 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
Quoting Randall_Lind:
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All you do is print a label, then peel it, place it face down on sticky side up on the applicator then take your cd/dvd face side down and press.
I have uses labels on CD's and DVD's no problems.
why not just buy printable dvds in the 1st place?
You are going to a lot of trouble for nothing when the printable dvds are the same cost as non printable ones.
I can think of one, very good, reason. Printable DVDs require a printer that can print on them. Not everyone owns one nor can everybody afford to buy a new one when the printer they have works just fine. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | I got a HP laserjet 4000 black & white laser that prints 10,000 pages per toner cartridge why would I want to go back to spending all my money on ink?
I can get a new 10k page cartridge for like $30 on ebay or one that does 12,500 for $65 at meritline
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I don't care about color and lightscribe is too damn slow! | | | | Last edited: by Randall_Lind |
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| Registered: April 7, 2007 | | Posts: 69 |
| | Posted: | | | | The reason I was considering labels in the first place was to make the DVD visually more recognizable. My DVD's were taking up too much space, so I'm putting them in "notebooks" with 4 DVD's on each side of a page. In DVD Profiler, I'm adding the Book and Page number, e.g., Pan's Labyrinth might be Book 3 / Page 27, to the Personal Information section of each DVD. However, I have scores of DVD's that have no picture on either side (sometimes it's Full Screen on one side and Widescreen on the other), so I was considering sticking a label with a picture of the Cover Art on the side I wouldn't use. Not really necessary, of course, but some aspects of "collections" are anal, with the collector having things just the way they prefer, necessary or not. LOL! I realize those "blank" DVD's are labeled around the spindle, but I like the pictorial representation of the title. However, it light of the "balance" concerns, I'll probably abandon the plan. I didn't realize a not-perfectly-centered label would throw if off that much. Plus, it was going to be a little expensive, and certainly time-consuming, so scraping the plan isn't too hard to accept. :^) Thanks for the advice!
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | if you don't want to spend the money fine, but with cd stmper application you hardly will make mistakes. I been using labels for years with no issues. | | | | Last edited: by Randall_Lind |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 101 |
| | Posted: | | | | Another option is get a burner that does LightScribe. It takes a while but uses no ink. Plus they now come in differant colored disc. Last pack I got was green,red,blue,and gold. | | | | Sometimes you are the bowling ball, sometimes you are the pins. |
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