BeAll Inkjet Printable DVD-R has Changed??

[ephesus]

I purchased 150 Beall inkjet printable about a month ago from meritline.com and I received the ones that everybody seems to be talking about with the full face printing area (20 mm inside diameter). I just received another 150 today from meritline.com and they have about a 40 mm inside diameter. The surface seems to be a little different also...in color at least anyway. I thought meritline must have made a mistake because it didn't come on spindles like it usually does, it was just wrapped in plastic. I checked the media tag and sure enough, it's says it's "Beall G00001". Has BeAll changed its ink-jet printable DVD-R's? I'm including a scan of the both the old (bottom) and new (top).

[darkburst]

Have you questioned Meritline about it? This would be a big bummer for me.

[darkburst]

I just did a quick check of their site and the description said:

White InkJet Printable - Larger Printable area! There is NO stack ring on this disc and you can print on the surface of this DVD media all the way toward the center hub.

I don't know if you purchased the 1x or 4x but they all said something similar. If it were me I'd be giving them a call.

[SergeantD]

Wow, that would suck if they changed. I absolutely love the BeAll's for their large printable area AND smooth surface. Good thing I just received 500 of them last week and they were the old ones. But hopefully it was just a mistake or temporary issue of sorts.

[ephesus]

Apparantly, it was Meritline's mistake. But they won't have the full face BeAlls in stock for another month.

http://www.meritlineforum.com/meritforum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=738

[darkburst]

If I'm reading Meritline's response correctly, it sounds as though it's only with the 1x. So the 4x "should" be ok.