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okay, i've come into a little bit of money and thought about buying a printer (i've been deprived of one for a couple of years), and i'm a bit intrigued by the CD labelling kit things that seem a little cheaper than when i saw it a few years before.

i never know exactly how it works, though, ok, so the ones i've seen were just like CD shaped sticky labels you can peel out of the A4 sheet, and then you put the label on this CD shaped press thing, and put the CD on it and it gets stuck on.

any thoughts on this appreciated!
that's all fair and good and simple. but does anything ELSE go on that? like to avoid smudging? like, i remember those rainy days in school when my pretty inkjet printer printed coursework would run like lola after a vindaloo. so presumably it'd be the same for these CDs with inkjet labels? or has the ink/paper technology improved since i last saw that the ink won't actually smudge when wet? (possibly using the same technology as kiss-proof lipsticks?)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the any thoughts appreciated was supposed to be right at the end.. sorry!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would yr CDs get wet anyway? You're not supposed to use them as coasters you know.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

what if you're outside and it's raining you had to change the CD on the walkman? what if you sneeze??? or just accidentally spill things on the cd?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What if you think that they are a waste of money and think people should just continue using OHP pens?

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps Ken understandably kisses his CDs (in drag from the sounds of things).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a CD labelling kit - the novelty wore off after about six months when I realised just how much I'd be spending on the label sheets if I did a pretty stick-on design for every bleddy CD-R I made.

In my experience, the images don't smudge (even on glossy), the application is easy and the labels don't come off. I've yet to encounter a CD player that objected to the fractional increase in thickness from slapping a label on either.

The software that came with mine (PressIT?) is a bit flaky, but then everything's flaky on my PC, from Word downwards.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i've kissed a couple of CDs before. crying over a CD would also cause the ink to smudge. and then the tear marks will always be there to remind you that you'd cried. Sometimes this is not a bad thing.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i see - thanks mike - i think i'm going to try one out and see how it all works .. it's the curses of working above a PC world. whenever i get paid i just go downstairs and want to waste money (esp when things are often cheaper elsewhere).

I need to get a printer, too.. anyone got recommendations? how good are the cheapo £30 inkjet printers nowadays? i haven't used one for years and i'm expecting things to have gone leaps and bounds. I like the idea of these new fangled PHOTO-PRINTERS.. there's one fairly cheap for £80 and promises to print edge-to-edge (i think that was the term) meaning presumably i can print with no margins???? what a wonderful new world!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Canon S-100 - rubbish printer.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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