Taiyo Yuden printable up to the hole?

[DeadLily]

I bought some TY printable DVD-Rs from meritline, but the surface only goes up to the hub instead of the hole. Are Taiyo Yuden printables even made that cover the whole surface?

[GizmoTheGremlin]

Not that I know of. Prodisc are, up to about 3-4 mm or so from the center hole.

If you want to see a picture of the disc before you buy it, supermediastore.com has many of them.

[terryzys]

Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD-R White Inkjet Printable discs are no Stacking Ring.

http://www.meritline.com/taiyo-yuden-dvd-media.html

[GizmoTheGremlin]

I see the thermal printable are, but I don't see any for inkjets.

[DeadLily]

Anyone had any luck with adding a hub label (core label) to a hub-shy printable surface DVD-R, and then printing with an R200? I imagine there would be a bare groove between the two surfaces, but for my needs, that may not look too bad.

[GizmoTheGremlin]

uggh. I don't like the sound of that. But give it a try. maybe you'll like it.

[overloaded_ide]

If your gonna do hub labels on printables you could print up a 100 or so neat logo labels in advance that would look professional on all your disks then apply those after printing the disks.

Just a thought in case you have poor results putting them on the disks then printing. Let us know how it works.

I have seen other brands elsewhere that are printable to nearly the hole itself. Can't recall where or what brands, so not much help other than to say they exist. I thought some TY were, but I could be wrong!

[DeadLily]

Done it enough now to adequately comment on it....

I've done several where I applied a Neato core label to a TY inkjet printable, and then printed it in my R200. There is a 2mm bare groove in between, but I've seen this on many manufactured DVDs and CDs, and it's not as ugly as it sounds. As long as the label is designed so there's no text or important image details disappearing into the groove, they look okay.

The only drawback is that the two surfaces do not reflect exactly the same, and at some angles the printed results don't match colors. But at most angles, it looks allright.

The thing to be careful of is that the ink which prints into the groove ends up being mostly invisible, but for a few minutes it is wet and can inadvertantly smear. I can let it dry, or sometimes, I'll blot it with a paper towel by laying it flat and pressing on it. (No wiping!)

For the designs I've printed, I'm satisfied with this procedure. But it would be nicer if TY would just make inkjet printables that cover the entire surface.

[gminnick]

Meritline sells 8x Taiyo Yuden that say they are inkjet hub printable.

http://www.meritline.com/taiyo-yuden-8x-dvd-r-white-inkjet-printable.html

Rima.com says theres are not hub printable, and it seems from an earlier post they are pretty good about making sure they do not sell fakes.

So.... are the Meritline TY's fakes? Does TY make inkjet hub printable?

[RickTheRed]

TY -8x are available in both inkjet printable HUB and NON HUB.

[boldego]

http://www.proactionmedia.com/proddetail.asp?prod=TY8XWIP%2FDVD%2DR

Here's some.

[gminnick]

$.72 each for 100 at Meritline or $1.60 each for 100 at ProAction Media. Does this sound right??

[boldego]

I thought Meritline was out. I've never ordered from ProAction.