by sandt38 » Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:43 am
Well I posted a query about the differance between white inkjet printables, and silver inkjet printables. I recieved varying responces so I decided to go for broke, buy some of each, and test them out using differant label styles.
I only use the best media, so please bear in mind your results may vary depending on media used. In my case, the media in question are
Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD+R White Inkjet Printables as linked, and
Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD+R Silver Inkjet Printables. My prints are using an
Epson Stylus RX580 All-In-One Ultra High Definition Printer.
Please bear in mind, I am being anal, but that is just my nature. The goal of intent here is to keep this review as neutral, honest, and complete as possible...
White Inkjet:This media is awesome. Images come out very crisp, and nicely colored. However, the color is a bit on the dark side, which is somewhat expected because the image surface is a matte finish, not semi-gloss (which I keep my printer set up for). Lightening up the color on this printer makes the image less lively, so I would need to do some color compensation to bring out the best of the image. If you are going to be printing full image lables, this is the way to go. The image labels printed were
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Whitewolf (targeting a dark image with icy blue and bright red to break it up and bring out the image), "Cars" by myself (still awaiting approval), a very simple and dark
"Alice In Chains" by myself and a very colorful and heavily contrasting
"Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me" by idontknowanything. All turned out wonderfully and crisp, outside the slightly dark tinge to it. However, simple text labels look horrible. The expansive white background makes it painful to look at and a sure magnet for my kids' grubby fingerprints.
Silver Inkjet:This media works very well, in certain cases. Text is a dream with this media. The dull silver face offers a somewhat subdued holographic background, far easier on the eyes then the
Taiyo Yuden Shiny Silver Laquer faces I have used all along. Sadly, however, this media is NOT hub printable. Text is precise and even when using somewhat dark gradient laden text with shadows, glows, and embossing, it comes out very well. Lighter colors suffer somewhat and light colored blends are about worthless. With this in mind, light colored images are also very weak in their presentation. Dark images are clean and fairly precise, but it is tough to see silver instead of whites. I made some specific labels for the silver (for example "Cars", using the logo, Lightning McQueen and and Sally) which turned out well, as long as details were kept to a minimum.
Overall, the results were as expected, really. If you want a complete image on your label, you MUST get white inkjets, unless you plan on developing labels specifically with the intent of keeping away from moderate to heavy detail, whites, or light colors to make them happy on Silver faces. But if you are a text heavy designer, Silvers are the only way to go. Myself, I do alot of movies, and I really like enough of them to say I would like to do 90% or so worth of high quality labels, making whites the apparent choice for me. However, being realistic, I don't always want to develop a label for every dang disc, so simple silvers with text will be used quite frequently. I think at any given moment, you will find both forms of media in my house.
Hope this helped those of you contemplating the choice of future media!!!
Well I posted a query about the differance between white inkjet printables, and silver inkjet printables. I recieved varying responces so I decided to go for broke, buy some of each, and test them out using differant label styles.
I only use the best media, so please bear in mind your results may vary depending on media used. In my case, the media in question are [url=http://supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-8x-dvd-plus-r-media-white-inkjet-hub-printable.html]Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD+R White Inkjet Printables[/url] as linked, and [url=http://supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-8x-dvd-plus-r-4-7gb-silver-inkjet-50-disc-spindle.html]Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD+R Silver Inkjet Printables[/url]. My prints are using an [url=http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=cat3&product_code=340845&Pn=RX580_Stylus_Photo_All_In_One_Printer]Epson Stylus RX580 All-In-One Ultra High Definition Printer[/url].
Please bear in mind, I am being anal, but that is just my nature. The goal of intent here is to keep this review as neutral, honest, and complete as possible...
[u]White Inkjet:[/u]
This media is awesome. Images come out very crisp, and nicely colored. However, the color is a bit on the dark side, which is somewhat expected because the image surface is a matte finish, not semi-gloss (which I keep my printer set up for). Lightening up the color on this printer makes the image less lively, so I would need to do some color compensation to bring out the best of the image. If you are going to be printing full image lables, this is the way to go. The image labels printed were [url=http://www.hirescovers.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=12]"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Whitewolf[/url] (targeting a dark image with icy blue and bright red to break it up and bring out the image), "Cars" by myself (still awaiting approval), a very simple and dark [url=http://www.hirescovers.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=2]"Alice In Chains" by myself[/url] and a very colorful and heavily contrasting [url=http://www.hirescovers.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=1]"Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me" by idontknowanything[/url]. All turned out wonderfully and crisp, outside the slightly dark tinge to it. However, simple text labels look horrible. The expansive white background makes it painful to look at and a sure magnet for my kids' grubby fingerprints.
[u]Silver Inkjet:[/u]
This media works very well, in certain cases. Text is a dream with this media. The dull silver face offers a somewhat subdued holographic background, far easier on the eyes then the [url=http://supermediastore.com/taiyo-yuden-silver-thermal-8x-dvd-plus-r-media.html]Taiyo Yuden Shiny Silver Laquer[/url] faces I have used all along. Sadly, however, this media is NOT hub printable. Text is precise and even when using somewhat dark gradient laden text with shadows, glows, and embossing, it comes out very well. Lighter colors suffer somewhat and light colored blends are about worthless. With this in mind, light colored images are also very weak in their presentation. Dark images are clean and fairly precise, but it is tough to see silver instead of whites. I made some specific labels for the silver (for example "Cars", using the logo, Lightning McQueen and and Sally) which turned out well, as long as details were kept to a minimum.
Overall, the results were as expected, really. If you want a complete image on your label, you MUST get white inkjets, unless you plan on developing labels specifically with the intent of keeping away from moderate to heavy detail, whites, or light colors to make them happy on Silver faces. But if you are a text heavy designer, Silvers are the only way to go. Myself, I do alot of movies, and I really like enough of them to say I would like to do 90% or so worth of high quality labels, making whites the apparent choice for me. However, being realistic, I don't always want to develop a label for every dang disc, so simple silvers with text will be used quite frequently. I think at any given moment, you will find both forms of media in my house.
Hope this helped those of you contemplating the choice of future media!!!