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I have an Artisan 810. Last month is gave me an "warning" that the "ink pads are near end of life". Well, that was a surprise. Epson does not make it easy for a non-professional printer tech to replace them and it would cost me more than a new printer to get it done. I had the printer since May 2011. I still have my HP inkjet printer from 2005, but it is not a DVD media printer.

I use non-OEM ink for my Epson, since I replaced those 6 cartridges a lot over the last year and a half. Many sets were bought on my fixed income. The Canon's OEM is under $100 per set but I get two sets for under $35 from the Amazon stores.

The thin DVD movie cases I use comes from Tigerdirect.com. 100 for $20-$25, plus shipping, depending on a sale or not.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1483698&CatId=66

As for version-less labels, I can use 3.6 and 4.0 for the version numbers. I am working on a few ideas for a label that uses less ink and is more "photo like", but that will be a bit till I get it worked out.

I would love to have a "print on demand" type of service, but Kunaki low volume pricing is high. If I was going to make 40 + discs at a time for a show, then I would use some service like that.

I do not have the advantage of a burning robot. I have just internal and external DVD burners.

As I said, I do not know how many labels or photos will print on a set of ink cartridges. The printer is still on its included set of ink. When I buy a printer [new or rebuilt], I always look for the ink costs. My Epson ink comes from a Canadian source. My Canon ink is in the USA [if I remember correctly]. I try to have 1 to 2 toners or full sets of inkjet cartridges on hand at all times. That way I will not run on even if I have a big job to do. I use my HP Laserjet 2300dn for most of my printing, but I do a lot of color printing every month, i.e. DVD labels, photos, and color documents.

Shipping - Well I tend to think about using the padded Priority mailing envelopes. Fixed price for it and I know it will get there faster than a less costly shipping. About $6 to any USA location, $13 to Canada and Mexico, and $17 to every other place. Outside of the USA it is a 6 to 10 day delivery. The thin DVD movie cases are not "fragile" as the jewel cases you get anymore.

Printing
Desktop does the burning - fastest drive - in the background while I do my other stuff. Win7 laptop runs the DVD labeling software for printing [both for the Epson and Canon]. I could use a different desktop for the burning, but it is not close to my desk, but hooked to my HDTV for media streaming to the TV's VGA port. I would never use the laptop's burner for much burning, since I was doing that for an HP's laptop backups and had to replace the DVD burner twice during the warranty period. $200 for a replacement laptop burner drive, but $40 - $60 for an external USB DVD burner. You decide which is easier to replace.



On 02/01/2013 11:32 AM, Christopher Walsh wrote:
I make a lot of DVDs for my day job (just finished a run of 120 discs - six
titles x 20 each), so I thought I'd toss in my 2 cents.

kunaki.com is a great option for short runs, but shipping starts to get
pricey.

I haven't used the canon pixma, am using an epson artisan 730 (cost on
Amazon is about the same), burning via pioneer blu-ray burner or bravo
multi-disc robot.

Media costs:

DVD media:  $29.95 (US) for 100 Verbatim discs via Amazon (free shipping
with prime)
Ink:  $90 for high capacity Epson cartridges give me 200-300 full color
discs.
Clamshell cases: $30 for 100 clamshells (better for shipping than jewel
cases or sleeves).

My cost per hundred with label and case is around 90 cents (US) -- plus my
valuable time of course (I run the discs via extra PCs while I do other
tasks).

For small local runs, burning and printing via Artisan/Pixma is a good
solution.  For larger runs it might be worth ordering from a duplicator.





Chris Walsh
301-646-9065
cswalsh@gmail.com


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:58 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <
webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

I now have a "Canon PIXMA MG6220 wireless Inkjet Photo All-In-One"

It was suggested that I let the Marketing List know about the costs of
printing your own CD/DVD labels using this type of printer.

Canon USA and Canada does not have Linux drivers, but the UK site does.
  There are no "utility" software packages for the Linux systems, except for
the scanning software.

The Windows and Mac driver section has a "utility package" called
"Easy-PhotoPrint EX" that makes printing labels onto a CD or DVD printable
media easier than using a package like GIMP and its print options.

See - 
http://libreoffice-na.us/**English-3.6-installs/artwork.**html<http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.6-installs/artwork.html>-
 for an example of a full color label for a LibreOffice DVD.

The printer costs about $100 at the Amazon stores, plus shipping and
warranty]

Canon OEM ink for two full sets of ink [big black, black, gray, yellow,
magenta, cyan] costs near $200, plus shipping.
For non-OEM ink for two full sets of ink costs about $30, plus shipping.
[free shipping options through Amazon]

The non-OEM price is from the Amazon store for "Sophia Global Compatible
Ink Cartridge Replacement for Canon PGI-225 CLI-226"

Image and Label quality?
Photo printing is very good and the NA-DVD label looks great on the
"white" inkjet printable discs by Memorex and Verbatim.

Ease of use?
Uses an external tray [good and bad idea], that is easier to use than the
Epson Artisan's built-in tray.

Printing time?
Takes less than a minute for the actual printing.  The software process
for printing a saved label takes more time than the actual printing of the
label.

Ink usage?
I have not seem any published information on pages per ink cartridge.  My
printer is new and I have not replaced any ink, yet.

Estimates of cost for printing 300 DVDs?

printer cost - $150 for printer/shipping/2 year warranty
Media costs - $140 for 300 printable DVDs using 50 pack pricing.
Case costs - $60 for 300 cases [using BK Media 100-pack Slim DVD Movie
cases].  Jewel cases cost just a little less.

$350 / 300 = $1.17 per printed disc with case.

Then add the ink costs, whatever they are.  You may get 40 or more "4 by 6
photos" per set of ink [a DVD should not take any more ink than a photo],
so it could be about $130 +/- for a set of 300 discs.  That is less than
$0.50 per printed label.

The total would make it about $1.70 per disc, or less, for the consumables
to hand out a nice looking DVD with a case.

wear-n-tare of a DVD burner, unknown, but a replacement costs around $25
+/-

All you have to do is figure in the time to burn and print the 300 DVDs.


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