Printer for CD Inlays.(gloss paper)

[drakem20]

Hello to everybody.

I´m looking for a good printer for printing on glossy paper (both sides) for CD inlays.Most of the time it would be photos mixed with graphics.
We are sitting in Namibia, so we dont have acces to specialised papers, exept of xerox laser gloss paper.
Currently I´m looking into HP2600N laser printer.
Do you have any other recommendation?

Thank You in advance

drakem20

[urstwile]

I know that you posted a couple of days ago, so sorry for my late response.

By CD inlays, are you talking about the jewel case inserts?

[drakem20]

Hi!
Thank you for reply.
Yes, the inserts and trays.
So far I checked all other options, Epson Photo printers, Cannon...., all those nice inkjet printers smudge on this gloss paper (BTW its Xerox paper, thay say you can use it with ink jets aswell), and photo paper is way too expensive here.
I saw a lot of good reviews on HP2600N, but any other recomenndation would be nice.

Thanks

[urstwile]

My thought is that you don't need to use gloss paper for the inside of a jewel case, as the plastic case reflection would conflict with the reflection off the gloss paper.

Is there a reason why you feel the need to use gloss paper?

But since your question was about printers, in looking at the printer you mentioned it seems you could do very well with it.

Stay away from inkjet printers...for your purposes, I think you'd want a laser printer. The ink for inkjet printers is where you run into big money, the printers themselves are relatively cheap. They're not really cost-effective. Toner will last much longer than inkjet ink will.

I'm not sure what your budget is, but we're very happy at my office with the Konica Minolta color printer/copier that we have. It's probably larger (and thus more expensive) than you'd need, but it's probable that they have smaller models designed for smaller workgroups.

[drakem20]

Thank you for your reply.

I thought gloss paper looks more "professional" ;), but the idea of printing backsides on normal paper is indeed perfect (cost savings)
I heard about Konica, I´ll try to find resseler here in Namibia.
Cost of that one is probably less than of a Xerox Phaser 8500 (solid ink), which I tested and for that prices was very disapointed.
Here in Namibia that Xerox cost 2,5 times of the average salary :eek: !


Thank You very much for your input.

Regards
drakem20

[urstwile]

Xerox will definitely tax your Namibian butt, that's for sure. We switched from Xerox to Konica-Minolta. Our lease on the Xerox printer we had was insane. The Konica Minolta is way less in terms of costs, and actually a better printer, in my opinion, although if you want to spend insane amounts of money (which I think you don't) you could probablyl get a great one from Xerox.

Why bother?

And since you'll be putting the inserts into a plastic case, they'll lend their own "gloss".

Gloss paper isn't necessarily professional, it's a look. Inside of plastic, no one will know the difference.