Cheap Cannon CD/DVD printer. Any ?

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Why cant the cheap printers have CD/DVD printing. Just want a 100 buck
model just for this purpose. No pay 200 bucks plus.

Iam going to get a good printer for Photos. An A3 one.


Any help.
 
Paul C said:
Why cant the cheap printers have CD/DVD printing. Just want a 100 buck
model just for this purpose. No pay 200 bucks plus.
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Two reasons:
1. It cost more to put that feature into a printer
2. Enough people are willing to pay more.

It was not all that long ago that a cheap color printer was $300+ and an
HP550C was $400.
 
Two reasons:
1. It cost more to put that feature into a printer
2. Enough people are willing to pay more.

It was not all that long ago that a cheap color printer was $300+ and an
HP550C was $400.
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In 1979 I paid $795 for an Epson MX-80 dot-matrix and thought it was a
real bargain. That would be about $2,150 in today's dollars.
 
Why cant the cheap printers have CD/DVD printing. Just want a 100 buck
model just for this purpose. No pay 200 bucks plus.

Iam going to get a good printer for Photos. An A3 one.


Any help.
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For A3, you gotta pay, as there isn't a big consumer market for them, hence
many aren't made.

If you are willing to give up A3 and just get A4, an 3200 or 4200 will do
you.

Licensing prevents CD prining on the US models, but it can be hacked in.
The lower end models are to small to include CD printing.
 
In 1979 I paid $795 for an Epson MX-80 dot-matrix and thought it was a
real bargain. That would be about $2,150 in today's dollars.
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In '81 I paid $4500 for an original IBM-PC at the IBM employee
discount. That would be about $13500 in today's dollars, but I'm not
sure what any of this proves.

Ken
 
Ken,
Yea, and we thought we were getting such a deal. Only about another $50 or
so to upgrade from 48k to 64k. I got the really super deal - TWO, count em,
TWO 160k single side floppy drives and only had to pay $555 for the 5151
printer, which was a rebadged Epson MX80. I did go the cheap route on a
monitor by buying an RF modulator and using a 13" b/w TV set. That saved me
a bundle as I recall. I was on the hook to the company for a little over
$3,200.00. Remember how expensive it was to get any software even at
employee discount?

Did you get put on a branch office PC support desk after getting your
system? In my branch as soon as a Field Mgr or SE Mgr found out we had our
own systems all of the sudden we had "another duty as assigned".
 
drc023 said:
Ken,
Yea, and we thought we were getting such a deal. Only about another $50 or
so to upgrade from 48k to 64k. I got the really super deal - TWO, count
em, TWO 160k single side floppy drives and only had to pay $555 for the
5151 printer, which was a rebadged Epson MX80. I did go the cheap route on
a monitor by buying an RF modulator and using a 13" b/w TV set. That saved
me a bundle as I recall. I was on the hook to the company for a little
over $3,200.00. Remember how expensive it was to get any software even at
employee discount?

Did you get put on a branch office PC support desk after getting your
system? In my branch as soon as a Field Mgr or SE Mgr found out we had our
own systems all of the sudden we had "another duty as assigned".
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I waited a year until the IBM computers hit the "gray market." Instead of
the full hight 360K drives IBM sold it with, I bought it with Toshiba 360 K
half hight drives, leaving space for a hard drive. Didn't need the hard
drive initially as programs were so small that they fit on a single 360K
drive with room to spare for data. With that purchase I bought an AST six
pack plus card that permitted the computer to be populated up to 640K of
memory - at a fraction the cost of IBM memory. As I recall, IBM wanted $125
per 64K module - correct me if I'm wrong. The computer, AST board fully
populated, two half hight drives, a third party mono monitor, and dBase II
cost me $3200. The next year the price on the 10 meg hard drives came down
from $1000 to $400 and I bought it for the above mentioned PC. Amazing that
a contemporary business or scientific hand held calculator has more power by
far than these units. Actually more power than the very early computer that
occupies a whole room in the Smithsonian as well.
 
In Australia i am. WHy dont they just stop piracy and let you have our
Cd/DVD printing in the US :)
 
And that is a very good point of comparison, when people complain about
the cost of ink, or that their printer only lasts a year or two.

My first color inkjet printer (by Epson) cost neither $1000 CAN, was
slow as molasses, but had the best resolution and color on the market at
the time. The cartridges, however, were huge and lasted a good year of
medium use, and cost under $50.

Today, the printer can be under $100, but the ink will cost you $1000 ;-)


Art
 
Next time you are thinking about putting down over $4000 on a piece of
early evolution technology, consider buying real estate ;-) The
property you could have purchased for $4500 in '81 dollars would be
worth a pretty nice piece of change in most cases, and someone would
actually want to buy it.

Art
 
Forget real estate. Think what $4,500 worth of Wal-Mart or Microsoft in 1981
would be worth today!!
 
Paul C said:
Why cant the cheap printers have CD/DVD printing. Just want a 100 buck
model just for this purpose. No pay 200 bucks plus.

Iam going to get a good printer for Photos. An A3 one.


Any help.
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If you're in the US, Epson have the sole patent on optical disk printing
capability. If you're in Europe, you're lucky, you can get your Canon.
 
WHy dont they just stop piracy and let you have our
Cd/DVD printing in the US :)
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Its not about piracy. Epson printers sold in the US do have CD support
officially. If it were about piracy, Epson would have to disclude CD
printing also.

The reason US Canon printers (North America actually, as Canadian and
Mexican users are also left out), is that Canon can not/will not pay the
licensing fees to Philips or whomver, to include CD/DVD printing as a
feature for that region.
 
If you're in the US, Epson have the sole patent on optical disk printing
capability. If you're in Europe, you're lucky, you can get your Canon.
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True, for officially marketed printers, but certain models can be modded to
add CD printing with not much fuss.
 
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