CasioCW-50 Dvd/Cd Labeler-possible to beat the >$of Cart

[@2alien]

The Casi cw50 is a good easy to use labeler-but the film cartridges are- long term -expensive:
1. Noticed the cw50 image thermal film is alot like the rolls of image film that I use in my Pansionic plain paper fax
2. I experimented with an old roll (unused)of thermal fax film.
3. Disassembled the Cw50 Cartridge -no real problem but cutting the fax film and refreshing the cw50 cartridge was a pain. However it did work-But it was not worth the time spent. (*image film types-refer to later)
3. Abandoned the idea of refreshing the little cw 50 cartridge but realize realized that you cut a rectanglaur piece of fax image film 1/8 inch bigger than the printing surface area (with a piece of small tape on each end-securing it to the DVD/Cd it would print fine*(exception). (process)
4. (process)Take old cw50 used cartridge and cut the silver finishing spool leader (This silver tape lets the printer know that the cartridge is out of film-so you have to cut and turn the take up spool until there is no silver tape in the cartridge housing) if not a nag screen telling you to put in new cartdrige in.....
5. Now the important concept-there are 2 types of thermal image film tape (ink): ((A)) Most fax thermal film is waxed based and only comes in black (this is what I used and it printed out labels as good looking as the cw50 film image [ink] however with a lot of scrubbing the label could be erased ((B)) The second type of thermal image film [ink] is resin based and this is what is used in the cw-50 cartridges and this label is very durable and cannot be rubbed or scrubbed off
6. This is where need some extra imput or expertise: Where to get the resin based film and its cost?
7. http://www.uline.com/ProductDetail.asp?model=S-6943#MoreInfo has black and colors used with with Zebra type of printers
8. If anyone has acutal knowldge with resin thermal inage file [ink] and source to buy and cost profile-please speak up
9. If a source is film and it is cost effective will submit pictures/guide

[Supreme2k]

It's much cheaper (time + materials) to simply buy the $6.99 cartridges.