Printing r300 dvds before burning

[Guest]

Anyone have any problems with printing dvds before being burned? The r300 manual states the discs should be burned first as the process scratches the dvd and may effect the burn. I felt this a disclaimer. My first worked just fine.

[iooi]

Prefer to print straight after a burn as disk is warm and it helps ink to dry faster. Have also had burns fail after printing and you are just wasting ink...
Have also seen ink streaks on disks if printing first, in main round the inner ring outwards (well it would be...) where ink has just missed the printable area.

[Hawseman]

I wouldn't recommend any non-essential handling of unburned media. DVD readers are designed to self correct read errors with parity checking. Damaged and dirty blank media can cause write errors that may overcome the ability of dvd readers to correct.

I also agree with iooi....why do all that work before knowing you have a good disk. That would be a tad frustrating to throw away something that pretty.

[axolotls]

Usually I print first R300.. Then burn..

No problems yet except the two discs that I burned a different video on than what I printed on the disc

[Umbearto]

I used to be a print-first, burn-next guy, until I had a whole project go south on me based on Memorex IJP CDRs for SVCD. My work-flow was print and Krylon all the discs, then burn and package. I guess my comfort/confidence level was out of check. It didn't occur to me, the burns might not go right and I'd be stuck with some very costly and time-consuming coasters...

Well, you can guess the rest, none of the discs were error free after the 55min mark of the disc, in fact most of them were unplayable after that point. I've learned my lesson; Burn, Quality Control, Print, Spray, Package.

[pyscrow]

I always burn first, had an expensive little incident where I did 30 DVDr's for a handout at a course I was running, before burning, and none of them could be burned, (cheap media probably the reason, but still not cheap enough to junk 30!)

Now I am definately a burn first advocate!

[Supreme2k]

Not to threadjack here, but this thread was brought up as a complaint to Dr Gee's avatar.

I think that bobinga will be in the minority in finding the avatar offensive. The "naughty bits" are not showing, so there should be nothing wrong with it (add to that, this is a male majority site ).

Let's not get overly sensitive here. Try not to let the little Janet incidient suddenly turn us into Puritans

[steveryan]

Looks fine to me but WTF is he doing with one of my girlfiends holiday pictures? That thong raised quite a few eyebrows at Blackpool.

[Guest]

Not to threadjack here, but this thread was brought up as a complaint to Dr Gee's avatar.

I think that bobinga will be in the minority in finding the avatar offensive. The "naughty bits" are not showing, so there should be nothing wrong with it (add to that, this is a male majority site ).

Let's not get overly sensitive here. Try not to let the little Janet incidient suddenly turn us into Puritans

Wasn't sure about this one. Sent an email to baldrick in regards to this . I'll let the supreme one decide.

p.s.- Didn't mean to offend anyone. The flury of positive feedback indicates it popularity.

[Hawseman]

Nice fashion touchup work, Dr......

Funny thing is...that "dental floss" thong probably cost 10x as much.

I wonder if it would be more acceptable if TechTV's Leo Laporte was wearing it.

[Guest]

Got the nix from the supreme one on my avatar. Toned it down. Hope no one has a problem with this one. You see more than this on TV and in clothing ads. If this remains offensive please let me know. I have a great Gary Coleman pic waiting to be uploaded.

Peace