The Oddly Enjoyable Casio CW-50 Thermal CD Printer
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- A brief and simple look at the Casio CW-50 Disc Title Printer from 2002. Print directly onto CDs and DVDs! Or any number of random other things if you put your mind to it.
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00:00 CD & DVD printing options
03:58 Unboxing the CW-50
07:12 Testing the Casio software
09:30 Printing on a Verbatim CD-R
11:11 Image printing test
12:13 Printing on a Memorex disc
13:38 Printing on blank lacquer disc
14:26 Printing on Cool Color CD-Rs
15:05 Printing on white inkjet disc
16:16 Printing on clear spindle protector
17:15 Printing on the Casio driver CD
18:23 Printing onto a disc sleeve
19:03 Attempting to read the data
19:35 This thing is pretty great!
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Hi Clint, a long time fan from China here. Not sure if anyone is asking, but I am very happy with the current frequency of uploading that we call as "it is ready when it is ready". We will enjoy it if and only if you enjoy it. Bring it on!
I appreciate that! More often than not my Friday release schedule is proving to be a hindrance than a benefit these days, and I’d rather take the time to give projects the attention they deserve.
Some YT creators rush out videos every few days and the quality of them is patchy. LGR I appreciate how long these videos take to do. I'd much rather have a well researched and scripted video that you enjoyed making once every month or so than you getting demotivated at having to churn out more frequent videos that aren't up to your high standards. On a less positive note damn your videos. Every time I watch one I want to go out and buy whatever it is your reviewing. 😂. My retro collection has grown significantly since I started watching your videos. Keep up the great work.
Much agreed!
@@LGRjust gonna say I've noticed a lot of people will not wait til a particular day of the week when having a more irregular video frequency and just release it when it's ready and just do a community post announcing it while the video is processing and that seems to get as much if not more attention because it gets some hype.
@@LGRhave you ever heard of the creative labs text to speech on windows 95 it comes with the sound blaster awe 64 and 32 there demo is wild it seems to work by math equations l.
Clint's genuine excitement and joy over a label printer is the most adorable and wholesome thing on this Earth.
U geh
In 2004 my band and I used 4 of these to produce 1000 copies of our EP with band logo and album name direct on the CDs. The other local bands asked what service we used because they, at the time especially, just looked phenomenal. We got the 4 we had when Office Depot clearanced them along with every black ink cartridge they had. Took a few days doing all the top area on all the discs first, then a few days doing all the bottom areas. We used the pure blank kind of CD-Rs.
The trick to images was a lot of tweaking and test printing to get the contrast just right to take into account how the printer rendered images.
That's really cool! Do you still have any of those original CDs?
Did NOT expect it to be this good!! What a wonderful little printer, Kudos to Casio!! ♥
As the box said: "CASIO, the unexpected extra" =)
Casio products really are built to last (even the stuff that's supposed to have gone bad like printers)...
It's a Casio. Back then, they were the underdog that could. Well, when they punched out of their wheelhouse, that is.
I Love Casio products, ESPECIALLY the calculators. Took an FX-7500gii graphing calculator and literally turned it into the newer/better model FX-8600gii with a software flash and they use standard Mini USB instead of the weird ass shit TIs use(d?)
@aserta They still can and do
That app window with the big semicircle sticking out of the top gives me strong 2000 vibes, it seemed so cutting edge to have non-rectangular windows!
Throwback to those Windows Media Player skins.
Honestly "Dude this is neat" is the whole vibe for the channel, I love it.
Heh, you're not wrong.
As a 12 year old who spent an extreme amount of time with CD labels and print shop programs, this would have blown my mind if I knew about it. I always hated how you could tell it was just a sticker on the CD. This little Casio is amazing!
Same!
Back when optical media was even relevant, the best thing to label them with was a sharpie - cheap, and quick
@@gorak9000 Might seem silly, but I took pride in the discs I made. Music mixes, game compilations, Manga Volumes, and home movies. These were discs I used all the time. I liked to have them looking nice
@@gorak9000 wrong. Sharpies are acidic, because they're alcohol based, and eat through the top coating of the discs. The best pens to use were overhead pens (which are impossible to get now) which were the exact same they also sold as disc writing pens. Basically you need to use ones that are water based and soft or you ruin the discs
@@thesteelrodent1796 I have many ancient cd's and dvds from the 90's that were marked with sharpies, and there's absolutely no issue. For quite a while, Fuji blank media even came with a Steadler permanent maker shrink wrapped to the case of discs!
Casio have stood the test of time. Honestly, I've NEVER encountered a Casio product that didn't work unless it was seriously & physically damaged. I collect old Synths / Keys etc and have dozens of them. However I've had several Roland synth keybeds go tits up in only a few years. But never once with a Casio! Such an under rated company.
Ever messed around with any of their graphing calculators?
I had a thing against Casio for a while because they had so danged many different models of watches that they'd pull mild scams selling weekly specials: They'd advertise a "50% off sale" and quietly pull their basic workhorse $10 watches from the shelves so you'd just be buying an ever-so-slightly better "$20" watch for $10. But I did eventually come around, and I'm sitting here typing this wearing a Tough Solar that I absolutely love. 😅 And when I was browsing a certain giant online retailer for that watch, one of the reviewers said he'd been wearing his for 10 years and it was still going strong.
(Muffled casio by mindless self indulgence)
Whatever Casio made their products out of, it's a material to rival Nintendium
It prints pretty fast and accurate. Wow. Totally surprised.
Honestly if CDs were still a thing people did more of today, this would be awesome to have.
@@DasGanon I FUDGING Wish.
I was very surprised it prints in one pass, that is an unusually wide print head.
We still use the CW-100(top of the line version - auto-spins the disc to the other label area) to this day at my office. I wish I had bought more at the time than the two we have. The software still works on Windows 10 and we still have to make DVDs for the US Navy. They still sell the ribbons. There is nothing that compares to it available these days other than pricey thermal printers that can print the entire disc surface.
They still turn up on eBay from time to time. I bought a spare one on there at least 5 years ago and haven’t needed it yet (I just tested it when it arrived).
I had a couple at my old job as well. I made sure to grab a spare online when it came up since they are so rare and they were essential for our software distribution at the time.
Wow, I'm a bit surprised that they still sell the cartridges. I was sitting here thinking you'd have to cannibalize the cartridges from one of their other printers at this point.
@@Dee_Just_Dee thermal is current tech and it would not surprise me if those ribbons are also used for a bunch of other stuff. After all there are millions of receipt and different size label printers in use every day, and Casio is one of the companies that make them
@@thesteelrodent1796Lots of receipts are printed on thermal paper, no ink needed. You can take a pointed object (retractable pen, your fingernail, etc.) and make a mark on them, if they are. Fun fact, hand sanitizer can interact with thermal paper, I know this from experience during the pandemic, working in a grocery store.
This is the kind of stuff that is lost to time that make me feel older every day. Being a computer nerd 20-25 years ago just felt different. The internet felt different. The possibilities felt different. Going all digital and dropping physical media just feels weird.
I want to burn come CDs now. But I don't even have an optical drive anymore, let alone a CDR. Also get off my lawn.
I know what you mean. I had to order a USB DVD Burner with my new PC, just in case....
Reification moment
Never got rid of my optical drives. My main PC has a BD-ROM drive, and a BD-RW drive. And my laptop has an external BD-ROM drive + DVD burner. I absolutely refuse to use streaming services, not because I'm against digital, but because I will not pay for digital media if it doesn't include a DRM free download. So I still mostly use DVD's, with the occasional Blu-ray (though I don't have an easy way to play those directly without ripping them first). Some stuff I just sail the high seas, stuff I want to collect I still get DVD's today.
I'm not against the concept of digital media. But unless it's high quality and DRM free I won't touch it. I do not stream music or movies. I either have physical media or I have my own DRM-free files on my Linux server (obtained via the high seas or ripping disks myself).
@@StormsparkPegasus Arrgg matey, welcome aboard the Black Pearl, may she sail forever!😁
I'm 21 and I have an old radio here that has such a good sound to it. I just keep buying CD-Rs and flashing some songs I usually hear on Spotify to them on my first and old computer. I don't know why, but it feels so good to listen to that paralised in time radio. Guess it's the same thing with people using vinils at CD times. But I don't know, listening music online is so fusy and noisy sometimes, tones of distractions and things screaming for my atention.
I had one of these in 2005 and was using it for my commercial music production company. I was using matte surface blank CD's without any labels on them and printing my own company logo and the titles of the tracks on them. It produced extremely professional-looking, hence cool results. Before that, I was delivering my school project for my music school with the help of this device, looking pimp!
Then the mp3 e-mailing era started and it reached its end of life. Great quality product tough. Another Japanese product with high satisfaction, that deserves love. I'm glad you enjoyed it too, Clint.
Man, every time I see Windows XP on a CRT the memories comes rushing back.
I feel you, brother. I am the same, whenever I see Win 95 running. Takes me back to my teens. It was the first MS OS I had, before that I worked with Daddy's C-64
Especially that background. Could literally taste the color of the XP bar when I saw it
That classic 4:3 aspect ratio!
for those of us who started with DOS 2.0: "what is this weird modern thing?". I mean, in 6th grade IT class we were shown a demonstration of the GEM desktop environment and didn't even have Windows on the school PCs because it was unnecessary. "DOS works just fine" as we were told
That "Oooooo" when the printer begins printing "fartsfartsfarts" eloquently summarizes the mood of your channel. I love all the things you do, and have learned so much with a sprinkle of christmas clones.
If I knew these existed in the early 2000's I would have used them on a regular basis 😂
I really like the idea of printing on those clear CD spindle toppers. It has some serious art project potential
This is such a cool device! I was not expecting anything from it but as your experiments went on and on and I got more and more excited of the possibilities. Now I want one of these printers! It's so simple and the result looks more than passable.
thermal printer ''''hacking''''' is really popular in Art school, you can grab one for really cheap (free) in a lot of places and the majority are not that smart so you can take their guts out and do w/e the fuck you want.
I'd have absolutely loved one of these 20 years ago.
I find it a bit sad that Casio never really got the love they deserved. They always made some very interesting stuff that never really caught on.
They got love in the music industry!
@@AaronHendu and digital watches! who doesn't love the classic F-91W?!
and the Casio Loopy - because everything's improved by adding a thermal printer, even a games console!
@@ahman324 Speaking of watches, early this year a retired footballer dumped his girlfriend (a somewhat famous singer) so she made a "diss" track about him where she says leaving her for another woman was like changing a Rolex for a Casio, the song went viral in Europe so Casio gave the guy a sponsorship deal and now he promotes his Casio watch everywhere he goes, lol.
@@LagrangePoint0Please, tell me more. This sounds crazy!
Whenever LGR uploads it brings a new meaning to “fun day Friday”.
This
It is Friday, my dudes.
Massa-san!?
Cool! I wish I knew about this 12 years ago! The fact that it's kinda cheap and not fully automated allows for so many possibilities. Prints on top of prints, full color images if you overlay the Red Green and Blue prints, maybe you could move the disc in there while it's printing to make some weird glitchy effects...
Full color prints was the first thing that came to my mind... what else can you print that aren't obsolete cds? would love to have something like this... you can do for example billboards or stuff like truck/train paint on 3d printed models, decals would be the term? this has a lot of potential, hooked to a GBC with a better, newer Game Boy camera, stuff like that..
I love these ideas so much.
when I saw him accidentally print over the other printing it made me realize "hey... you could make a full color label!"
You can't print full color with RGB. You need CMY.
I think its actual basic out-of-the-box function is impressive enough. When you use it on plain lacquered disc like at 13:38 it's basically indistinguishable from a commercially pressed and printed disc, like Clint said. If you're a small-time musician, you could churn out a bunch of discs for absolute lunch money and have them look like they came from five-figure contract.
Anything that has Clint laughing while using it makes for the best videos
Hi Clint,
I actually had one of these except it was badged TDK here in the UK, WOW, takes me back.
I used it for labelling mix cd's for the car, and as we saw, I never had any problems labelling ink jet compatible media.
Now I have an Epson all in one printer with a CD/DVD Tray which does not get used a fraction as much as the in my case the TDK.
Love your videos, looking forward to your next one.
Man, being a DJ during this era was great. You were IT when you used this to make the latest mix CD to give all your friends! It was also the absolute best way to apply for new DJ gigs.
Had this printer back when they came out - it was great! I also got the later model which had an auto-rotate function so you could print the top and bottom areas without having to manually turn the disc around. Had all the ribbon colours I could get hold of! They were great and I still have many of the discs I printed with it.
For full-disc colour thermal printes, look up the Rimage Prism III, which was mainly used for black printing but you could get CMY ribbons and do full colour, or even more expensive would be something like the Rimage Everest range of thermal disc printers - again they would print either black or full colour, depending on the ribbons used. I believe the manufaturer stopped producing the ribbons for these printers a few years ago (which is what made me sell all of mine) but there may be clones or old stock still out there.
Lacquer! Matte! Inkjet! DISC COVER! Just gone mad with power there! And here I was squealing in fascination all the way.
I would have been all over this had I known it existed back in the day. Instead I have binders full of sharpie labeled burned discs :)
Thermal printers are incredible when they work, endless headaches when they break. Old job had me repairing label thermal printers back in the day. Most amazing thing on the high scale models is how fast they can go. Full letter size labels in a second.
I have a stack of Mitsui Silver CD-Rs that I bought specifically because they were both high quality and had a nice brand-free top. They would be perfect for a printer like this.
When I saw the title I said to myself, "I like where this is going!". Of course LGR did not disappoint! 😊
15 minutes of an adult man printing "fartsfartsfarts" and blurry black and white pictures onto CDs, and I enjoyed every second of it
I had one of these on my desk as the special projects NCO when I was in the Army. It was one of my favorite toys and went real nicely with my 12 disc cd duplication tower.
Only Clint could make a video about a CD printer entertaining and fascinating!
This is such a cool printer, I'm amazed it never took off. I remember drama teachers having to use lightscribe or paper presses and it never looking nearly as good as this
I had a friend give me a lightscribe burner when it first released, cannot remember the brand...but I was only like 12 and couldnt afford or find any lightscribe cd-r to use with it. I have owned so many lightscribe drives since and never once used the feature.
We used this every week at church to print labels on the sermon CDs we would hand out to anyone who missed a week or wanted to re-listen. We used the exact Sony or Verbatim CD-Rs (as long as they had the blank spot at the top of the disc). Always worked really well!
I recall working for a photofinishing shop that had a bunch of these. The shop had a lot of digital output and camcorder export jobs. So I was paid to write them a small utility program to generate overview images from videos or albums that were then printed onto CDs/DVDs. Glad to see these lovely machines again.
That's way better than just taking a permanent marker to the CD-R. No worries about marker ink bleeding through and messing with the disc or anything too.
I almost forgot that "inkjet compatible" CD-Rs were a thing.
I've got a spindle of similarly textured blank Blu-Rays (haven't used em in years) that have a matte white finish on the top with no labelling at all (they might say what they are in fine print around the inner hole, can't remember) and I bet they would work great with this thing.
Wow the quality on that print is insane. I remember someone I knew having some kind of printer like that but it was no where near as clean. That thing was far ahead of its time.
This disc-labelling system is the most fun yet.
Delightful silliness indeed! Thanks for the video! Your enthusiasm for this tech is infectious. Keep it up.
Wish I had one of these back in the 90's! Much nicer than the stomper
I had one of these! It was really cool to make my own customized CDs (or copy real ones and make them look official). I remember it being very easy to smudge though, so I always had to carefully handle the discs from the edges.
I have lived in NYC since 1992 and didn't know about this retro expo. There's so many events that go on here that a lot are easy to miss. By the way, I make custom CDs, DVDs, and VCDs for people. I was looking for a way to print on discs like this. This is awesome. Now I want one. Thanks for reviewing it! 👍
What a surprisingly fun little device, and it works way better than I could have expected. Some definite limitations like being confined to those rectangular areas and only one color at a time, but the actual printing quality is really nice.
But it was waaay too expensive considering its limitations.
It’s a cool product and I had a feeling this would turn out well. I was born in the iPod age, so I have very few early memories of people burning cds but the solution I remember seeing the most was people just taking a sharpie and writing on the labeled side. And that always seemed to do the job just fine. This seems like the closest version to that but without having to worry about battling your own terrible handwriting.
it's the fall of 1999, woodstock just crashed the party and we're back to school
some kid is selling burnt cd's for 15$ in the lunchroom, but the new kid is selling burnt cd's for 18$ but their is cover art on the disc
the new kid is ballin' now and taking the babe the the first dance.
thank you casio.
First you get the labels, then you get the power, then you get the women
this is the kind of quality content we have come to expect from you Clint. Very entertaining!
From the looks of things, I think this works a bit like my job’s price tag printers, where it hears up some sheet in the necessary shape and then sticks it to the surface. Can those kind of ribbons even dry out? What I think is really cool about those kind of ribbons is if you look at them you can see the like reverse version of your image/ words
I think those ribbons can't dry out per se, given that they are completely dry in the first place. But I bet they will undergo some kind of chemical degradation of the material over time. However, how long will it take to become unusable, I have no idea.
Exactly, it'll work like a modern dye sublimation photo printer, where it selectively melts a polymer "dye" compound off of a of plastic ribbon onto the disk. This is basically the exact same way that Brother label printers work too. There's nothing to "dry out", it's just a sheet of plastic.
For something that seems so easy to use, it certainly has a large user manual. 😆 I would be interested in seeing what is included in the manual. I was pleasantly surprised with this printer. Good video as usual!
Also: farts 🤣
It's always great to see you having fun with these little gadgets!
Hey Clint! I just wanna say that when you find a hidden gem of old technology/hardware, your enthusiasm for it is extremely contagious. You never fail to put a smile on my face when oddities like this surprise you. I know it doesn’t meant much, but thank you for making my day!
Back in the day, making custom audio CDs was the in-thing to do, especially doing the CD label as well as the artwork for the front and back cover. The main bugbear was always trying to find CD-R's without any proprietary printing on them, (quite literally blank CDs), so that you could print your own labels directly onto the discs. You did need a special type of printer to do it, though, and I supposed this device would have worked.. kind of. I suppose changing the cartridge out for different colours might have helped, but it wasn't perfect by any means. The best I ever managed was those sticky labels with the applicator featured. Far from perfect as most CDs didn't have solid labelling to them, unless you could find transparencies, which again were rare and/or expensive. Not that it mattered too much, once mp3 players became a thing, the interest in such things waned quite significantly.
Cool! I wonder if you can make a label that lets you create color prints with several passes of different colored inks? like make an LGR where its RGB and print the L first then G then R with different inks, or maybe a 3d effect by slightly shifting the text and reprinting over it? Lots of fun to be had with that.
The problem with normal thermal transfer is the melted plastic sits on top of the other layers so the colors don't mix. When you work it out, you get dye-sublimation printing; the ribbons have dye that evaporates onto the medium with heat. Dye-sub is known for very high quality results.
@@straightpipedieselI bet you could use color dithering to get around that, it might give an interesting effect
@@PineJayForgeHonestly, having played around with a similar printer, I think you would just end up with a horrible mess due to the printhead lifting off parts of the previous layer. It just doesn't seem worth the hassle when you can buy a used Rimage disc printer for a couple hundred bucks.
Agh man as someone who owned the CD stomper you showed when I was a kid, I would've LOVED this. the quality is so much better than expected. it's sooo clean
Excellent! Thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos 👌
This is really impressive! I didn't expect this to work so well. I'm curious how it would work if you printed some text (0r an image) then swapped the cartridge out for a different color. Like red text over blue text for example. Would the result be purple, would it not work, or would it just produce some weird unsatisfactory result. I'd also be curious as to how well the prints hold up over time. Too bad they didn't produce a machine that could print over the entire area of a cd. Still a really cool piece of tech though!
Dye sub printers like the Canon Selphy and the instant photo print machine at the local chemists work by doing three passes. The "ink" on the ribbon is quite translucent though so that would be an important factor.
Do you like Jason's Band? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when New Album came out in '01, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. They've been compared to Slint, but I think Jason has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In ''02, Jason released this; My Best, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Don't Be Afraid". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.
Hey Paul!
I opened for Jason’s Band in ‘05 at The Hexagon in Minneapolis, but at that point the ship had sailed.. Robert walked away like late 2003/early ‘04 and they were mostly filling that void with loop pedals and a lot of reverb :/ I dunno if Jason was trying to get more experimental or if it was just kind of messy “shoegazey” attempts.. Not gonna lie, pretty sure he was on something when I tried talking to him before his set and he wasn’t very friendly.. But, there’s no denying the magic in the room when he did an acoustic of “This Song” that night after the newer stuff. That really pulled the audience in..
Still have a Jason’s Band shirt somewhere..
Hello Clint! Thanks to this video I have ordered and finally got my CW-75 disc printer. The one with the keyboard and I LOVE IT! It's amazing. Also, the CW-75 can run on 8 AA batteries (which I had to use because mine did not come with a power adapter,) and does not need a PC to use it. Thanks for this video as I would never of heard of this without it! I do hope you had fun at the show! Thanks again!
Oh sweet, that’s nice to hear!
The open delight and glee is exactly why i love your work ❤️
The quality is shockingly good and prints almost instantly, I would've definitely loved this thing back in the day.
Lol “thermal printers baby, they don’t care!” Made me so happy. This printer exploration was a joy.
The way you got gradually excited about the dithering is amazing xD
And the chaotic energy at the end is impecable!
I am absolutely amazed at how great this thing worked. Amazing.
What an awesome little device. I wish i could have had one of these back in the days.
Thank You Clint.
Great episode, as always.
Thanks for all the great content LRG
This is really neat, thanks for showing this cool bit of kit off Clint.
Always takes me back to the great days watching your vids ty :). Keep up the good work .
That image print quality is surprisingly fantastic! Love 'old' tech like this!
Why was this not more popular?! I would have loved this back in the 00's!
I would say the price, 120 US$ in early 2000's is about 215 US$ today, considering its limitations, it's way too expensive.
@@LagrangePoint0Yeah, for most people these were just too expensive to purchase for just "fun use". Would (also) absolutely loved one, though 😅
That was way better than what I was expecting to see. Very satisfying printing too depending on the surface.
The holt grail of cd printers is the defunct Dymo Disc Painter. Something i've wanted for years since inkjet printers that print on CDs are for some reason incredibly expensive.
Saw casio and had to smile. Love my Casio digital watch collection that just keeps growing.
That printing is amazingly good for its time... I am actually impressed.
I almost want one now... and I REALLY wish I had one 20 years ago!
Well I picked up a CW-75 and it's in super good condition. I also got a power supply and fresh ink and WOW!! Thanks for the video.
Ah yes, another cool Friday by LGR! Thanks for this, what a very interesting CD printer! 📀😁
Ohhh duuude. The whole time I was waiting for cool crab to show his clippy little face, you did not disappoint!
I've still got mine in some closet somewhere! Loved this thing, gave my mix CDs a more pro look!
You unlocked a memory for me! I had one of these in high school. I actually stumbled across the software CD not too long ago.
Honestly Clint, some of my favourite videos and video topics of yours are the ones that cover the seemingly mundane tech of yesteryear like this. Thing is, it's old and outdated so you don't see them used anymore, they're before my time so I've never heard of them or seen one , let alone used one, and they're mundane enough that they aren't remembered or celebrated as anything special. All of this just makes them even more ripe for covering in a video, just as much as some classic bit of hardware or software from back in the day or one of your big wild projects.
Also honestly - I was wondering how effective a solution for labelling discs this would be and I'm as surprised as you are how effective it is; those are some genuinely really good results.
Wish that I had one of those back in the days. Another nice video Clint.
I picked up a CW-100 from Goodwill and absolutely love it. The ink that was in it still worked even, until it ran out. Great for labeling discs made for old installs and any other data disc, takes all the guessing out of what could be on the disc. Awesome to see this covered here, one of the cooler actually useful products from the early 2000s.
I would have LOVED this as a kid!
Really impressed! Awesome results for that little machine
That giddy “this is neat!” Is so wonderful
Oh boy, I would've loved to have something like this back in the day. I would've spent so much time creating labels and graphics to print on my CD mixes.
Duuude! This is awesome. I wish I knew it existed. I would have bought one for sure.
I was a big fan of printable discs and labels because I loved doing color labels, but end of the day I wasn't a good enough artist to do custom stuff. I even bought one of the Epson MultiFunctions with the build in CD Printing tray because I'd always use the printable sheet applicator crooked or with too many bubbles.
So I went with Lightscribe and fell in love since I could use it to print little clip arts and track lists easily.
This would have been so much cleaner, i could have used just about any type of disc and not have that crappy off yellow/orange discs for lightscribe.
Always learning something new on LGR. Thank you sir 🙂
That's really cool! Kinda makes me wonder how a lot of the bootleggers printed on the discs (at least the ones that didn't use a label), saw a lot of that from a lot of Asian shops back then.
Wow, the text is really darn crisp! I would definitely have enjoyed having one of these back when! ^^
I always wondered, and Clint brings the info. Thank you
I hope you're enjoying NYC, I went recently and I already can't wait to go back.
I was going to stop the vid and move on until you started having so much fun and i had to watch.
Your pure joy at how these disc prints are coming out! haha
Seeing some of those game icons on an XP desktop brings back so many nostalgic feelings. Such a great period for games around the DX9 to DX10 crossroad.
I worked for a small business in the early 2000s and we had the dedicated inkjet printer that used the printable discs. The issue we ran into was they smudged even when dry. So we had to spray them with a surface coating to prevent this smudging. Was the best solution short of having discs printed by a specialty service which was pretty pricey at that time.
Still have one next to my computer but haven't used it for ages. Used it for publishing my music on CDs and for DVDs With corporate videos I did for my clients. They were always impressed to get a clean printed DVD.
Looked at the video and thought its just a printer for CD's. But it got exciting real fast! Quickly got into the whole what else can i print on! Great video! :D
Happy to hear it, thanks!
wow such a nice vid and great product, i whish i had one back in the days. Great job Clint!
I was hoping cool crab would make an appearance, I was not disappointed!😂
Yeah... but what if you printed the label with the CW-50 and then on the other side used the Yamaha Disc Tattooing thing and create the ultimate form of customized digital storage?
that printed way better than i expected wow