Printing on DVDs

I’m trying to make a couple of boxsets for myself and some friends this Christmas using the art from Ronwlim. Since I don’t have the equipment required to print onto discs, I’ve been trying to find a company that will do it for me.

The problem I’ve run into is that the smallest amount of units any company nearby will print for me is 25. So I’d have to buy 25 blank discs for each film in the OT. That means I’d have 75 discs in total… I only need 9.

Does anyone know of a better way to do this? If not, I may just buy the 75 and sell the spares at a price that will cover the printing and shipping - not to make any profit.

So what did you end up doing? I also have wondered how I’m going to put labels on the discs but I’m not sure there’s a great solution for those of us that don’t have a printer that can print onto the discs.

Hi guys. I have had success printing labels for my despecialized blu rays using a product called (horbis CD/DVD labels) in combination with a software called Avery (5931 is the template) bought from Amazon. They turn out pretty great in my opinion, and should serve your purposes. I have had no friends complain when I presented their SW sets for Christmas so far. Perhaps I’ll post a pic if I can figure out how. Cheers

Hi Markus, I’ve actually used some of them for mine. Took a while to calibrate the printer but it looks quite good once the initial tweaking is done. I’ll post some results soon.

Also, I got some bluray sleeves printed. I used Ron’s criterion design but resized it and tweaked slightly so that they would fit normal bluray cases. Unfortunately criterion cases aren’t available in the UK.

i have an epson artesan 837 and artesan 1143 both print to dvd/cd printable disks…if this helps. they aren’t cheap printers, but do the job rather nicely.

I used stickers to put on my bootle-I MEAN LEGALLY BOUGHT DVDs. Ask around in few computer shops or check online, they make special stickers that you can print your images on and then stick them onto the disc.

I’ve tried using those sticker labels but my only issue is that they’re SO DAMN HARD to get lined up properly when printing. I’ve wasted so many of them before finally getting one to look right.

But since I’m not ready to shell out the cash for a printer with direct to disc printing yet, I’ll be sticking to them lol.

Another thing you can do (I’ve never tried it but I’ve seen it done) is print the disc labels on the full sheet sticker labels and then just cut it to the right shape.

I’ve never personally had a problem with the sticker labels messing with the playback and ruining the player like some people claim they do, but maybe I’m just lucky.