What is the best CD burner and CDR

[fatcatmusic]

Want to start selling some of my works online so need to start burning some CDRs. If I want the best Hi Fi quality products, what CR burner and printable CDRs would you recommend?

[djgizmo]

What is the purpose of this CDR burner? To burn audio, data? Inkjet printable or lightscribe?

Do want it to be independent of your computer or apart of it?

Do you need something to duplicate multiple cds at a time?

Taiyo Yuden produce the best CD/DVD media.

[fatcatmusic]

Originally Posted by djgizmo

What is the purpose of this CDR burner? To burn audio, data? Inkjet printable or lightscribe?

Do want it to be independent of your computer or apart of it?

Do you need something to duplicate multiple cds at a time?

Taiyo Yuden produce the best CD/DVD media.

Thanks for the reply.

I think an ext. CD burner is more flexible. I will burn Audio CD, inkjet printable. I need duplicate multiple CD at a time.

I will check out the Taiyo Yuden.

[jmarkham]

Check out this ...

Bravo II CD/DVD Printing System by Primera

The Kiosk kit lets you burn 50 at a time and it does CDs
and DVDs ..

The ink is expensive .. but other than that, it works really well.

jeff

[theblue1]

What are CD's?

Is that some kind of old fashioned way to distribute music, or something?



Seriously, though, I wouldn't invest a huge amount of money in a format that is fading away so rapidly, I don't think...

CD's are a good way to extend revenue streams at live shows, though. Get a few drinks in bar-age folks and they may forget what decade it is...

[Jay M]

Originally Posted by theblue1

What are CD's?

Is that some kind of old fashioned way to distribute music, or something?



Seriously, though, I wouldn't invest a huge amount of money in a format that is fading away so rapidly, I don't think...

CD's are a good way to extend revenue streams at live shows, though. Get a few drinks in bar-age folks and they may forget what decade it is...

That's a good point, a friend of mine just got a "record" deal of some sort... but they aren't even making a CD! It's only on iTunes and Amazon. Crazy! I would buy a CD, but I'm not gonna spend $1 a song for MP3 quality.
Angel Taylor. on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos

To answer your question, There are a number of places that will produce CD-Rs for at a reasonable cost, you just upload the wav files to their FTP server, and they can mail you the CDs. You can try CD-Lab: CD/DVD equipment, production, media, packaging, and software

We produce about 12,000 CD-Rs a month using Rimage duplicators and Taiyo Yuden Media. If you want ink-jet printable then the Taiyo Yuden Watersheild discs look amazing, though somewhat costly.

~Jay

[patternbased]

its not a burner, more like an automated burning service... kunaki.com, its pretty amazing. i used them multiple times and its very impressive if you want to do short runs of very nice looking cdrs (they pretty much look like cds) that you can sell.

[fatcatmusic]

Originally Posted by patternbased

its not a burner, more like an automated burning service... kunaki.com, its pretty amazing. i used them multiple times and its very impressive if you want to do short runs of very nice looking cdrs (they pretty much look like cds) that you can sell.

Just checked out the Kunaki.com. Seems pretty good and price-wise OK. Originally thinking of buying a Primera CD printer and duplicator but now maybe I'll try the Kunaki first.

Thanks.

[W-W-Int]

there is another method...
get good cdr's that aren't inkjet printable. preferably with silver on top and bottom, instead of silver top, green bottom.

take a few dollars and 10 minutes and learn about silkscreening/screenprinting. for around $30 you can get a screen set up, ink, and screen film. for an additional $10 at wal mart you can get some daylight uv flourescant lights. and an old blanket covering the bathroom window is all you need to make a dark room for screen filming/exposing.

one tip, most instructables and video tutorials don't cover this but here's a free bit of my past experience (worked doing screen printing for around 18 months back when) get clear packing tape, and scotch tape. use packing tape on the inside of the screen's wood sides and layer it from wood edges down to the inside of the screen to cover the empty area of the screen not covered by the film coating. do all the sides of the frame to inside of screen film covering. now you can go for hours without worrying about leaks around the edges of the screen dripping or ruining your printing surface. also during printing if you notice a pinhole (ink dot in an otherwise supposed to be blank area) while printing, just take a small piece of scotch tape and tape over the hole in the screen on the outside edge that contacts the surface you're printing on.

also as far as film placement...
always put the film on the outside (the wood sides are either bare and facing you or covered by screen, the outside is the side where the wood is covered by screen).

and for cd printing use really small batches of ink at a time and, get ink cleaner as the ink needed is fast air drying ink and will eventually clog the screen. use a cloth rag and ink solvent to wipe the inside of the scren area once you start noticing your print is getting thinner/weaker looking as far as the coverage (after having scooped out any ink inside first of course and wiping it as dry as you can with a plain rag)

benefits of this are you get cheap printing that looks exactly like it was professionally printed in a factory for a few pennies per disc. inkjet is like 15 to 20 cents per disc as ink jet ink is not cheap. you can buy screen ink for 2,000 discs for what one black cartridge costs and the ink jet cartridge will only print around 150-200 discs.

[Flying_Dutchman]

Plextor Pro with Plextools software is great, if you want to check the cd errors before selling

[fatcatmusic]

Originally Posted by Flying_Dutchman

Plextor Pro with Plextools software is great, if you want to check the cd errors before selling

I thinl you need Plextor hardware to work with Plextools? I used to have a Pextor SCSI CD Writer and it broke fast, not very good experience.

I am using Sony/ SOnic Foundry CD Architect for burning now. But I also found Nero very good, I can burn songs with graphics and disc information when played on Mediaplayer.

As for disc checking that is a problem, especially when there are 300 discs to check!

[JPeters86]

Originally Posted by patternbased

its not a burner, more like an automated burning service... kunaki.com, its pretty amazing. i used them multiple times and its very impressive if you want to do short runs of very nice looking cdrs (they pretty much look like cds) that you can sell.

Nice tip, thanks. Too bad they charge 120$ shipping costs to The Netherlands

[Flying_Dutchman]

Originally Posted by fatcatmusic

I thinl you need Plextor hardware to work with Plextools? I used to have a Pextor SCSI CD Writer and it broke fast, not very good experience.

I am using Sony/ SOnic Foundry CD Architect for burning now. But I also found Nero very good, I can burn songs with graphics and disc information when played on Mediaplayer.

As for disc checking that is a problem, especially when there are 300 discs to check!

I think you need Plextor Pro for Plextools. The guys from Mastering Forum told me this. Checking a CD is better than a customer with a bad CD, imo.
I don´t know any other software that can check BLER and things like this.

[fatcatmusic]

Originally Posted by Flying_Dutchman

I think you need Plextor Pro for Plextools. The guys from Mastering Forum told me this. Checking a CD is better than a customer with a bad CD, imo.
I don´t know any other software that can check BLER and things like this.

How long does it take for the PlexiTool to burn and verify a CD? Is it all done in one action, i.e. you don't need to start the verification process after burning?

[fatcatmusic]

Originally Posted by JPeters86

Nice tip, thanks. Too bad they charge 120$ shipping costs to The Netherlands

Yeah I thought so about the shipping as well but then I need to pay for the stamper if I take it to a CD plant plus minimum order is 500. $120 for shipping 100 discs so it's like $1.20 each, not too bad. Just less profit for the first 100, I suppose.

Another thing I like is that they can provide Bar Code which is vital if you want to sell it in record stores.

But anyone has experience with Kunaki.com? How professional is the printing, does it look good I mean comparing to a commercial released CD plant product?

[JPeters86]

Originally Posted by fatcatmusic

Yeah I thought so about the shipping as well but then I need to pay for the stamper if I take it to a CD plant plus minimum order is 500. $120 for shipping 100 discs so it's like $1.20 each, not too bad. Just less profit for the first 100, I suppose.

That's true, thanks.

[Flying_Dutchman]

Originally Posted by fatcatmusic

How long does it take for the PlexiTool to burn and verify a CD? Is it all done in one action, i.e. you don't need to start the verification process after burning?

check plextools dot com