Inkjet DVD Printers

Inkjet DVD Printers

Inkjet DVD printers provide brilliant, photo-quality color printing for your DVDs. With advancements in the world of printing in color fidelity, printing resolutions, disc alignment, and drying, inkjet printing on DVDs has become the preferred option for printing on DVDs. These DVD printers are economically priced so that anyone needing to print on DVDs can easily acquire one.

The main reason people use inkjet DVD printers would be, of course, to label discs to impart a more polished and professional look to the DVD. While using an inkjet DVD printer, the DVD has to be an inkjet-printable disc. Inkjet printing works by ejecting the colored ink from the print head onto the surface of the DVD. The difference between these DVDs and others is that they have an extra coating, called the Ink Absorption Layer. This layer helps in receiving the ink from the printer to allow it to stay in place long enough to dry properly. Some people may even have screen-printed images on DVDs, with inkjet printing or labeling done on the blank areas.

Color Printer

Images from inkjet DVD printers are of high resolution and are full colored. However, the disadvantage here is that the resulting images can get smudged by high humidity or with damp fingers. So these DVDs are not actually recommended for automotive or other harsh environments.

When storing these DVDs, it is important not to store or ship them in flexible plastic envelopes as the package materials may interact with the ink and make the image on the DVD stick to the sleeve of the envelope and spoil the image. So it is preferable to use jewel cases or other containers that do not contact the printed surface of the DVD.

Inkjet DVD printers work with a computer and most inkjet DVD printers are Windows and Mac compatible. The inkjet DVD printer has to be connected to the computer through a USB port, and upon connecting the two, you have to use the software provided to choose and create the appropriate image or photo for your DVD. Once the image is chosen, the printing process is started to get a personalized DVD.

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