Does anyone know about Primera Robotic Disk printer?

[jtoolman2000]

I've looked everry where but have not found the answer.

I own a small production business and have a need to produce ( Burn and Print ) batches of 20 to 50 disks at a time for my customers. I had been using a pair of 1to5 CD/DVD Duplicating towers with Pioneer 108 DL / 16x drives. Has been working flawlessly and I can know oout 10 disks in about 10 mins and that's at 8x. I had been printing my disks on an epson R300 which is fine when I only need ten or so. Recently I have gotten an order for a total of 450 disks in batches of 50 and I can't imagine printing then the way I have been doing it.

The primera robotic printers seem like the way to go and I have seen one older version in person in our Audio Visual department in my insititute and so far they have loved it. My ?? is whether anyone knows if they use proprietary ink cartriges or are there 3rd party or other replacements for them . A pair of black and color carts will run over $90 + S/H and I could swear the ones on the model I want look like the newer ones used by Lexmark's generation of Photo printers. The reason I say that is because the model I saw at work uses the older Lexmark carts used by all those other generic printers like COmpak, Brothers Kodak and of course Lexmark. If that is the case then at least I can at least obtain my replacements for at least 1/3 the price from some of the other ink/carts providers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jtoolman2000]

53 views and no one knows???

[iooi]

I guess no one has that kind of money to spend on one....
Wont hte manufactures give you details of what carts etc it uses ?

[BJ_M]

i used several of these -- they worked great ...

i always use the cart's that were made for it -- it was rare that i had to change a black .. and the color lasts for a lot of dvd's .

the carts are $29 at the low end of the price scale .


i dont know of any sub's , but im sure there are some ..

not a machine you want to screw up though ...

[CDPrintExpress]

I haven't heard much about the Bravo II. If you are getting larger orders you might want to consider getting a Rimage Everest.

[jtoolman2000]

It's just that the cartriges look identical to the newer "Lexmark" ones. If so , then I could possibly get them a bit cheaper elsewhere. The company makes it sound as if they are proprietary cartriges. I'm lamost 100% they are lexmark as their systems are based on the lexmark printer guts. We have a four burner / printer robotoic unit at work and it is a Lexmark printer inside the unit.
I just sent for one today and should have it in a couple of days. I suppose I'll know then.
Thanks

[BJ_M]

our primera's all had epson guts im pretty sure ..

[BJ_M]

i may be wrong -- but i even read that somewhere also

[jtoolman2000]

That would really ROCK!!!!