CD's of your work

fredjclausfredjclaus Registered Users Posts: 759 Major grins
edited August 4, 2009 in Mind Your Own Business
Does anyone create CD's of your work for clients? I am burning some commercial and event photography jobs onto CD's for the client per the contract. Right now since I can't afford a light scribe, I am using CD labels. Does anyone use these types of labels for their work? I'm looking at two different options.

1. Printing the labels one assignment at a time and printing the client's event info on the label.

2. Print my company information on the label and leave a line for event date and name. Then when I use the label I can take a black marker and write on the label the event info.

Which idea do you all do?
Fred J Claus
Commercial Photographer
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  • emeraldroseemeraldrose Registered Users Posts: 324 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2009
    I just started this and my printer has an option to print on a cd (the printables of course) and I love it. It looks very classy and they're very personalized and my client loved it as it makes it very easy to identify and beautiful to share.
    Emerald Rose Photography
  • PupatorPupator Registered Users Posts: 2,322 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2009
    fredjclaus wrote:
    Right now since I can't afford a light scribe, I am using CD labels.

    I know everyone's budget is different, etc. But I'm surprised that you can't afford a Lightscribe drive for a paying gig. You can get one (internal or external) for about $50. A pack of 30 discs is $10. $60 to look professional sounds reasonable to me (again, if the gig is a paying gig). headscratch.gif
  • PhenomenologicalPhenomenological Registered Users Posts: 39 Big grins
    edited August 2, 2009
    fredjclaus wrote:
    2. Print my company information on the label and leave a line for event date and name. Then when I use the label I can take a black marker and write on the label the event info.

    If I got a CD with the details written on in marker I might wonder about the photographer a bit. A profession where you take high quality images, then your CD is written on in pen? Surely spending a bit of money to look professional is worth it?
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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2009
    If your printer prints directly one the disk then I suggest that you use the Mam-A gold or silver archival's they are a bit pricy but after years of using different ones for PRO recordings these turned out to have the least failures and that means a lot when at times we were making over 500 per day on the fly....the disk was handed to the artist with 5 minutes of them playing or singning the last note......so I started using them for photos...as I had everybrand I could buy locally become corrupt for no reason setting in a jewel case in the dark in a humidity controled enviroment......


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    I also use lightscribe for some stuff when in a pinch........


    AS far as writing on the disk with sharpie.....well I have had a few CD's over the the US Air Force Jazz band a few times......but I used a white china maker and the printed labels would stick just fine when we mailed them out to them 3 days later..................there are times when it iwll have to be done.
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  • fredjclausfredjclaus Registered Users Posts: 759 Major grins
    edited August 2, 2009
    Please send me more information. The lightscribes I looked at where about $150 and the discs were more expensive than $10.00. Where can I find them at the prices you spoke up. If that's the case, I might just buy that set-up. Thought my new laptop had a lightscribe burner, but it doesn't say anything about it.
    Fred J Claus
    Commercial Photographer
    http://www.FredJClaus.com
    http://www.Fredjclaus.com/originals

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  • PupatorPupator Registered Users Posts: 2,322 Major grins
    edited August 4, 2009
    fredjclaus wrote:
    Please send me more information. The lightscribes I looked at where about $150 and the discs were more expensive than $10.00. Where can I find them at the prices you spoke up. If that's the case, I might just buy that set-up. Thought my new laptop had a lightscribe burner, but it doesn't say anything about it.

    I went to Amazon and searched for Lightscribe.

    Here are the $10 discs I found though these for $15 get a better rating with users.

    Here's a highly-rated external burner, which is a little more expensive than the internal burners I could find. Amazon sells some cheap external drives but I can't vouch for the quality and the ratings aren't great.

    Keep in mind, this was just looking at Amazon. I didn't look at NewEgg, Tiger Direct, Best Buy, or any of the zillions of other stores.

    Here's the search for lightscribe dvd drive on Amazon.
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