[LAU] Burning lots of CDs

[Rob]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 17:38, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> And while on the subject ... are the ink jet CD printers worth
> getting just to do a 50 or 100 discs or should I just stick with
> the tried and true sticky labels I normally print on my laser? I

Inkjet-printed CDs may not look as slick as silkscreened ones, but 
they're way, way less tacky than labels (which eventually bubble or 
worse, come off inside someone's player and ruin it, as once happened 
to one of my drives.)  The Epson RX580 is starting to show up cheap 
(like $60) as a refurb, and as long as you have a really up to date 
Linux/cups/gutenprint/whatever it is that makes "Epson RX580" show up 
in my printer list on Kubuntu 7.10, you should be able to print CDs 
on it without much trouble.

One caveat about the RX580 is that the scanner part of it won't be 
recognized unless you install some binary blob from an 
Epson-affiliated website, and the binary blob is 32-bit only.

Rob