CD printing, Scanning, and printing

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Keith Nuttle

I have a need for professional looking one off CD's. I had been using
HP lightscribe system to make these CD's Now that HP has dropped that
system, and to my knowledge no one currently supports that system on
Windows 8.1, I am looking for a new way of creating the CD's.

Can some one suggest a printer/scanner that will print to the
printable-CD's, that will run on Windows 8.1, and will be around in the
future?
 
Keith Nuttle said:
I have a need for professional looking one off CD's. I had been using
HP lightscribe system to make these CD's Now that HP has dropped that
system, and to my knowledge no one currently supports that system on
Windows 8.1, I am looking for a new way of creating the CD's.
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I always thought Lightscribe was something of a joke. Black printing on colored
discs never looked all that great.
Can some one suggest a printer/scanner that will print to the
printable-CD's, that will run on Windows 8.1, and will be around in the
future?
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Epson has the patent on direct printing to disc in the US. I've been using the
XP-800 for several years, but there are several newer models with the same
capability. White glossy media prints up commercial looking quality discs. The
printer comes with basic software, but there are other packages that can take
advantage of the capability.
 
I have a need for professional looking one off CD's. I had been using
HP lightscribe system to make these CD's Now that HP has dropped that
system, and to my knowledge no one currently supports that system on
Windows 8.1, I am looking for a new way of creating the CD's.

Can some one suggest a printer/scanner that will print to the
printable-CD's, that will run on Windows 8.1, and will be around in the
future?
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Go with this but as usual it all depends where you live.

Epson Stylus Photo P50 or plenty on the Epson sites.

Yes and use Shurething deluxe Gold to print the CD's
 
I have a need for professional looking one off CD's. I had been using
HP lightscribe system to make these CD's Now that HP has dropped that
system, and to my knowledge no one currently supports that system on
Windows 8.1, I am looking for a new way of creating the CD's.

Can some one suggest a printer/scanner that will print to the
printable-CD's, that will run on Windows 8.1, and will be around in the
future?
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My Epson Artisan 835 does a neat job.

Wei
 
David H. Lipman said:
Interesting how Epson changed input and output paper handling and the DC/DVD
tray vs. the Artisan familiy.
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They still have the goofy unidirectional motorized tray extender though.
 
Since you already have the hardware and possibly the HP software, you
could load the freeware version of VMWare Player

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/6_0

and load a copy of what ever Operating System the HP Software/drivers
supported in to a new Virtual Machine. Once it's installed you can then
print from inside that VMWare session to the hardware attached or
networked to the machine just as you did in the past.

When finished printing just shut down the VMWare copy of Windows like
normal until you need it again for another printing session.

You will need a license to run the new VMWare\Windows session. Where or
how you get the license I'll leave up to you...
 
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