Printable DVD media

[klsparrow]

I hope I am in the right form to ask this question. I have a Epson R300 printer that I use to print may DVD's and a Philip's DVDR80 to record. Right now I am using the Memorex DVD+R white printable media.

Does anyone have an opinion as to which brand gives the best color? I assume that the brighter the white the better the color. Also How about the silver printable media how does it do.

Thanks

Ken

[quadforce]

I've used ritek,memorex, and beall printables and to me the ritek looked the best. never tried the silver printables

[disturbed1]

The only +R printable I've used was an Optodisc 8x. It was OK, not that great though.

Don't know if this will help you, but for -R, I've used-
Optodisc
Lead Data (Accu, DupEz)
Prodisc
Gigastorage (Prime, Neon)
Verbatim
Maxell
Taiyo Yuden
Ritek (G04).

The Maxell and Verbatim had the best looking surface. Prodisc was OK, but seems a little shiny with black, the surface is extra smooth. TY and Ritek have too small of a printable area for me, with Ritek looking slightly better, but neither as good as Maxell nor Verbatim. The Gigastorage, and Lead Data were alright, but the discs aren't the highest quality. Maxell, Verbatim, and Ritek are all branded on the hub. Ritek just being a smallish RIDATA logo, while Maxell and Verbatim both state the brand name and DVD-R 4x on the center hub. Prodisc has the smallest center (22-23mm) Verbatim is also available in hub-print 8x for DVD+R.

Perhaps they use the same surface for both -R and +R.

The silver printables give a halogram look. It's great for some images, and just plain cheesy with other stuff. This is with Prodisc and TY printables. The TY silvers produced better color (had correct color reproduction) but the Prodisc printed darker. You can correct this by either printing twice on the TY, or increasing the darkness in your printer settings.