Hi Clint, a long time fan from China here. Not sure if anyone is asking, but I am very happy with the current frequency of uploading that we call as "it is ready when it is ready". We will enjoy it if and only if you enjoy it. Bring it on!
I appreciate that! More often than not my Friday release schedule is proving to be a hindrance than a benefit these days, and I’d rather take the time to give projects the attention they deserve.
Some YT creators rush out videos every few days and the quality of them is patchy. LGR I appreciate how long these videos take to do. I'd much rather have a well researched and scripted video that you enjoyed making once every month or so than you getting demotivated at having to churn out more frequent videos that aren't up to your high standards. On a less positive note damn your videos. Every time I watch one I want to go out and buy whatever it is your reviewing. 😂. My retro collection has grown significantly since I started watching your videos. Keep up the great work.
@@LGRjust gonna say I've noticed a lot of people will not wait til a particular day of the week when having a more irregular video frequency and just release it when it's ready and just do a community post announcing it while the video is processing and that seems to get as much if not more attention because it gets some hype.
@@LGRhave you ever heard of the creative labs text to speech on windows 95 it comes with the sound blaster awe 64 and 32 there demo is wild it seems to work by math equations l.
In 2004 my band and I used 4 of these to produce 1000 copies of our EP with band logo and album name direct on the CDs. The other local bands asked what service we used because they, at the time especially, just looked phenomenal. We got the 4 we had when Office Depot clearanced them along with every black ink cartridge they had. Took a few days doing all the top area on all the discs first, then a few days doing all the bottom areas. We used the pure blank kind of CD-Rs. The trick to images was a lot of tweaking and test printing to get the contrast just right to take into account how the printer rendered images.
I Love Casio products, ESPECIALLY the calculators. Took an FX-7500gii graphing calculator and literally turned it into the newer/better model FX-8600gii with a software flash and they use standard Mini USB instead of the weird ass shit TIs use(d?)
As a 12 year old who spent an extreme amount of time with CD labels and print shop programs, this would have blown my mind if I knew about it. I always hated how you could tell it was just a sticker on the CD. This little Casio is amazing!
@@gorak9000 Might seem silly, but I took pride in the discs I made. Music mixes, game compilations, Manga Volumes, and home movies. These were discs I used all the time. I liked to have them looking nice
@@gorak9000 wrong. Sharpies are acidic, because they're alcohol based, and eat through the top coating of the discs. The best pens to use were overhead pens (which are impossible to get now) which were the exact same they also sold as disc writing pens. Basically you need to use ones that are water based and soft or you ruin the discs
@@thesteelrodent1796 I have many ancient cd's and dvds from the 90's that were marked with sharpies, and there's absolutely no issue. For quite a while, Fuji blank media even came with a Steadler permanent maker shrink wrapped to the case of discs!
Casio have stood the test of time. Honestly, I've NEVER encountered a Casio product that didn't work unless it was seriously & physically damaged. I collect old Synths / Keys etc and have dozens of them. However I've had several Roland synth keybeds go tits up in only a few years. But never once with a Casio! Such an under rated company.
I had a thing against Casio for a while because they had so danged many different models of watches that they'd pull mild scams selling weekly specials: They'd advertise a "50% off sale" and quietly pull their basic workhorse $10 watches from the shelves so you'd just be buying an ever-so-slightly better "$20" watch for $10. But I did eventually come around, and I'm sitting here typing this wearing a Tough Solar that I absolutely love. 😅 And when I was browsing a certain giant online retailer for that watch, one of the reviewers said he'd been wearing his for 10 years and it was still going strong.
This is the kind of stuff that is lost to time that make me feel older every day. Being a computer nerd 20-25 years ago just felt different. The internet felt different. The possibilities felt different. Going all digital and dropping physical media just feels weird. I want to burn come CDs now. But I don't even have an optical drive anymore, let alone a CDR. Also get off my lawn.
Never got rid of my optical drives. My main PC has a BD-ROM drive, and a BD-RW drive. And my laptop has an external BD-ROM drive + DVD burner. I absolutely refuse to use streaming services, not because I'm against digital, but because I will not pay for digital media if it doesn't include a DRM free download. So I still mostly use DVD's, with the occasional Blu-ray (though I don't have an easy way to play those directly without ripping them first). Some stuff I just sail the high seas, stuff I want to collect I still get DVD's today. I'm not against the concept of digital media. But unless it's high quality and DRM free I won't touch it. I do not stream music or movies. I either have physical media or I have my own DRM-free files on my Linux server (obtained via the high seas or ripping disks myself).
I'm 21 and I have an old radio here that has such a good sound to it. I just keep buying CD-Rs and flashing some songs I usually hear on Spotify to them on my first and old computer. I don't know why, but it feels so good to listen to that paralised in time radio. Guess it's the same thing with people using vinils at CD times. But I don't know, listening music online is so fusy and noisy sometimes, tones of distractions and things screaming for my atention.
We still use the CW-100(top of the line version - auto-spins the disc to the other label area) to this day at my office. I wish I had bought more at the time than the two we have. The software still works on Windows 10 and we still have to make DVDs for the US Navy. They still sell the ribbons. There is nothing that compares to it available these days other than pricey thermal printers that can print the entire disc surface.
They still turn up on eBay from time to time. I bought a spare one on there at least 5 years ago and haven’t needed it yet (I just tested it when it arrived).
I had a couple at my old job as well. I made sure to grab a spare online when it came up since they are so rare and they were essential for our software distribution at the time.
Wow, I'm a bit surprised that they still sell the cartridges. I was sitting here thinking you'd have to cannibalize the cartridges from one of their other printers at this point.
@@Dee_Just_Dee thermal is current tech and it would not surprise me if those ribbons are also used for a bunch of other stuff. After all there are millions of receipt and different size label printers in use every day, and Casio is one of the companies that make them
@@thesteelrodent1796Lots of receipts are printed on thermal paper, no ink needed. You can take a pointed object (retractable pen, your fingernail, etc.) and make a mark on them, if they are. Fun fact, hand sanitizer can interact with thermal paper, I know this from experience during the pandemic, working in a grocery store.
I had one of these in 2005 and was using it for my commercial music production company. I was using matte surface blank CD's without any labels on them and printing my own company logo and the titles of the tracks on them. It produced extremely professional-looking, hence cool results. Before that, I was delivering my school project for my music school with the help of this device, looking pimp! Then the mp3 e-mailing era started and it reached its end of life. Great quality product tough. Another Japanese product with high satisfaction, that deserves love. I'm glad you enjoyed it too, Clint.
This is such a cool device! I was not expecting anything from it but as your experiments went on and on and I got more and more excited of the possibilities. Now I want one of these printers! It's so simple and the result looks more than passable.
thermal printer ''''hacking''''' is really popular in Art school, you can grab one for really cheap (free) in a lot of places and the majority are not that smart so you can take their guts out and do w/e the fuck you want.
I feel you, brother. I am the same, whenever I see Win 95 running. Takes me back to my teens. It was the first MS OS I had, before that I worked with Daddy's C-64
for those of us who started with DOS 2.0: "what is this weird modern thing?". I mean, in 6th grade IT class we were shown a demonstration of the GEM desktop environment and didn't even have Windows on the school PCs because it was unnecessary. "DOS works just fine" as we were told
@@ahman324 Speaking of watches, early this year a retired footballer dumped his girlfriend (a somewhat famous singer) so she made a "diss" track about him where she says leaving her for another woman was like changing a Rolex for a Casio, the song went viral in Europe so Casio gave the guy a sponsorship deal and now he promotes his Casio watch everywhere he goes, lol.
Hi Clint, I actually had one of these except it was badged TDK here in the UK, WOW, takes me back. I used it for labelling mix cd's for the car, and as we saw, I never had any problems labelling ink jet compatible media. Now I have an Epson all in one printer with a CD/DVD Tray which does not get used a fraction as much as the in my case the TDK. Love your videos, looking forward to your next one.
That "Oooooo" when the printer begins printing "fartsfartsfarts" eloquently summarizes the mood of your channel. I love all the things you do, and have learned so much with a sprinkle of christmas clones.
Yeah... but what if you printed the label with the CW-50 and then on the other side used the Yamaha Disc Tattooing thing and create the ultimate form of customized digital storage?
Had this printer back when they came out - it was great! I also got the later model which had an auto-rotate function so you could print the top and bottom areas without having to manually turn the disc around. Had all the ribbon colours I could get hold of! They were great and I still have many of the discs I printed with it. For full-disc colour thermal printes, look up the Rimage Prism III, which was mainly used for black printing but you could get CMY ribbons and do full colour, or even more expensive would be something like the Rimage Everest range of thermal disc printers - again they would print either black or full colour, depending on the ribbons used. I believe the manufaturer stopped producing the ribbons for these printers a few years ago (which is what made me sell all of mine) but there may be clones or old stock still out there.
Cool! I wish I knew about this 12 years ago! The fact that it's kinda cheap and not fully automated allows for so many possibilities. Prints on top of prints, full color images if you overlay the Red Green and Blue prints, maybe you could move the disc in there while it's printing to make some weird glitchy effects...
Full color prints was the first thing that came to my mind... what else can you print that aren't obsolete cds? would love to have something like this... you can do for example billboards or stuff like truck/train paint on 3d printed models, decals would be the term? this has a lot of potential, hooked to a GBC with a better, newer Game Boy camera, stuff like that..
I think its actual basic out-of-the-box function is impressive enough. When you use it on plain lacquered disc like at 13:38 it's basically indistinguishable from a commercially pressed and printed disc, like Clint said. If you're a small-time musician, you could churn out a bunch of discs for absolute lunch money and have them look like they came from five-figure contract.
I almost forgot that "inkjet compatible" CD-Rs were a thing. I've got a spindle of similarly textured blank Blu-Rays (haven't used em in years) that have a matte white finish on the top with no labelling at all (they might say what they are in fine print around the inner hole, can't remember) and I bet they would work great with this thing.
From the looks of things, I think this works a bit like my job’s price tag printers, where it hears up some sheet in the necessary shape and then sticks it to the surface. Can those kind of ribbons even dry out? What I think is really cool about those kind of ribbons is if you look at them you can see the like reverse version of your image/ words
I think those ribbons can't dry out per se, given that they are completely dry in the first place. But I bet they will undergo some kind of chemical degradation of the material over time. However, how long will it take to become unusable, I have no idea.
Exactly, it'll work like a modern dye sublimation photo printer, where it selectively melts a polymer "dye" compound off of a of plastic ribbon onto the disk. This is basically the exact same way that Brother label printers work too. There's nothing to "dry out", it's just a sheet of plastic.
That's way better than just taking a permanent marker to the CD-R. No worries about marker ink bleeding through and messing with the disc or anything too.
I have a stack of Mitsui Silver CD-Rs that I bought specifically because they were both high quality and had a nice brand-free top. They would be perfect for a printer like this.
Cool! I wonder if you can make a label that lets you create color prints with several passes of different colored inks? like make an LGR where its RGB and print the L first then G then R with different inks, or maybe a 3d effect by slightly shifting the text and reprinting over it? Lots of fun to be had with that.
The problem with normal thermal transfer is the melted plastic sits on top of the other layers so the colors don't mix. When you work it out, you get dye-sublimation printing; the ribbons have dye that evaporates onto the medium with heat. Dye-sub is known for very high quality results.
@@PineJayForgeHonestly, having played around with a similar printer, I think you would just end up with a horrible mess due to the printhead lifting off parts of the previous layer. It just doesn't seem worth the hassle when you can buy a used Rimage disc printer for a couple hundred bucks.
It’s a cool product and I had a feeling this would turn out well. I was born in the iPod age, so I have very few early memories of people burning cds but the solution I remember seeing the most was people just taking a sharpie and writing on the labeled side. And that always seemed to do the job just fine. This seems like the closest version to that but without having to worry about battling your own terrible handwriting.
The holt grail of cd printers is the defunct Dymo Disc Painter. Something i've wanted for years since inkjet printers that print on CDs are for some reason incredibly expensive.
I had one of these! It was really cool to make my own customized CDs (or copy real ones and make them look official). I remember it being very easy to smudge though, so I always had to carefully handle the discs from the edges.
This is really impressive! I didn't expect this to work so well. I'm curious how it would work if you printed some text (0r an image) then swapped the cartridge out for a different color. Like red text over blue text for example. Would the result be purple, would it not work, or would it just produce some weird unsatisfactory result. I'd also be curious as to how well the prints hold up over time. Too bad they didn't produce a machine that could print over the entire area of a cd. Still a really cool piece of tech though!
Dye sub printers like the Canon Selphy and the instant photo print machine at the local chemists work by doing three passes. The "ink" on the ribbon is quite translucent though so that would be an important factor.
This is such a cool printer, I'm amazed it never took off. I remember drama teachers having to use lightscribe or paper presses and it never looking nearly as good as this
I had a friend give me a lightscribe burner when it first released, cannot remember the brand...but I was only like 12 and couldnt afford or find any lightscribe cd-r to use with it. I have owned so many lightscribe drives since and never once used the feature.
The year is 2172. Archaeologists have unearthed a box believed to be from the TH-cam era. Carefully, they remove the lid, wondering with excitement what knowledge can be gleaned from this discovery. They are greeted with stacks of discs labeled fartsfartsfarts.
I had one of these on my desk as the special projects NCO when I was in the Army. It was one of my favorite toys and went real nicely with my 12 disc cd duplication tower.
Man, being a DJ during this era was great. You were IT when you used this to make the latest mix CD to give all your friends! It was also the absolute best way to apply for new DJ gigs.
We used this every week at church to print labels on the sermon CDs we would hand out to anyone who missed a week or wanted to re-listen. We used the exact Sony or Verbatim CD-Rs (as long as they had the blank spot at the top of the disc). Always worked really well!
it's the fall of 1999, woodstock just crashed the party and we're back to school some kid is selling burnt cd's for 15$ in the lunchroom, but the new kid is selling burnt cd's for 18$ but their is cover art on the disc the new kid is ballin' now and taking the babe the the first dance. thank you casio.
Back in the day, making custom audio CDs was the in-thing to do, especially doing the CD label as well as the artwork for the front and back cover. The main bugbear was always trying to find CD-R's without any proprietary printing on them, (quite literally blank CDs), so that you could print your own labels directly onto the discs. You did need a special type of printer to do it, though, and I supposed this device would have worked.. kind of. I suppose changing the cartridge out for different colours might have helped, but it wasn't perfect by any means. The best I ever managed was those sticky labels with the applicator featured. Far from perfect as most CDs didn't have solid labelling to them, unless you could find transparencies, which again were rare and/or expensive. Not that it mattered too much, once mp3 players became a thing, the interest in such things waned quite significantly.
That's really cool! Kinda makes me wonder how a lot of the bootleggers printed on the discs (at least the ones that didn't use a label), saw a lot of that from a lot of Asian shops back then.
For something that seems so easy to use, it certainly has a large user manual. 😆 I would be interested in seeing what is included in the manual. I was pleasantly surprised with this printer. Good video as usual!
Do you like Jason's Band? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when New Album came out in '01, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. They've been compared to Slint, but I think Jason has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In ''02, Jason released this; My Best, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Don't Be Afraid". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.
I opened for Jason’s Band in ‘05 at The Hexagon in Minneapolis, but at that point the ship had sailed.. Robert walked away like late 2003/early ‘04 and they were mostly filling that void with loop pedals and a lot of reverb :/ I dunno if Jason was trying to get more experimental or if it was just kind of messy “shoegazey” attempts.. Not gonna lie, pretty sure he was on something when I tried talking to him before his set and he wasn’t very friendly.. But, there’s no denying the magic in the room when he did an acoustic of “This Song” that night after the newer stuff. That really pulled the audience in.. Still have a Jason’s Band shirt somewhere..
Honestly Clint, some of my favourite videos and video topics of yours are the ones that cover the seemingly mundane tech of yesteryear like this. Thing is, it's old and outdated so you don't see them used anymore, they're before my time so I've never heard of them or seen one , let alone used one, and they're mundane enough that they aren't remembered or celebrated as anything special. All of this just makes them even more ripe for covering in a video, just as much as some classic bit of hardware or software from back in the day or one of your big wild projects. Also honestly - I was wondering how effective a solution for labelling discs this would be and I'm as surprised as you are how effective it is; those are some genuinely really good results.
That printer is awesome! I bet you can print on all sorts of other stuff too. It's a pity you have such a small area to work with. From my experience, we only had special pens to write on CDs...
OMG, you're going to Long Island?! That's where I'm originally from, though I live elsewhere in NY now. The LI Retro Game expo is a load a fun, plus it's in an aerospace museum! I need to plan to go that show more often, I can't make it this year. Maybe next year I'll go, and make it an excuse to visit my parents. Also, don't do what I did and leave the expo with 100s of dollars of retro video games. Or do, I can't tell you what to do.
I recall working for a photofinishing shop that had a bunch of these. The shop had a lot of digital output and camcorder export jobs. So I was paid to write them a small utility program to generate overview images from videos or albums that were then printed onto CDs/DVDs. Glad to see these lovely machines again.
This reminds me of a lot of cheaper fax machines I've seen which use the full sheet sized "thermal ribbon". They work fine UNLESS you have them in a hot office and then you wind up with a non-working fax and when you remove the ribbon holder to find out what's wrong, it pulls out like taffy leaving gooey black s___ inside the printer (ask me how I know about that LOL)
I have one of these, I usually prepare my images with high-contrast and utilize a few other techniques to get the best result. I know once upon a time there was a Canon? It printed color on discs but the discs probably had to be used w/ paper tops but I could be wrong. ((I would wonder if inkjet could print on discs... but you'd probably have to finish it with a spray of some kind so that the ink would set quick and couldn't be smudged...))
Man, this sounds like a cool idea. The only thing better, IMO, is the Lightscribe system. Then again, I grew up with burned PS2 games with Lightscribe labels, so I think it's mostly nostalgia.
Thermal printers are incredible when they work, endless headaches when they break. Old job had me repairing label thermal printers back in the day. Most amazing thing on the high scale models is how fast they can go. Full letter size labels in a second.
I ended up getting a light scribe DVD-RW at one point as well. Never found blanks for it though, they weren't available anywhere. Were light scribe DVD's even a thing or did my parents get conned?
I have lived in NYC since 1992 and didn't know about this retro expo. There's so many events that go on here that a lot are easy to miss. By the way, I make custom CDs, DVDs, and VCDs for people. I was looking for a way to print on discs like this. This is awesome. Now I want one. Thanks for reviewing it! 👍
I busted out laughing IRL when you printed the data side of the driver CD, and then the envelope it came in hahaha. Nice. Edit: cool crab cameo! What I was hoping for all along! Yay!
Aside from some braided ones, I have never seen a silver USB cable - it looks so nice! Now I kinda want one, haha. Anyway, I'm very surprised to see it work as good as it does. It's like the little engine that could! It just doesn't care. :D
Verbatim had some blank discs back in 2010ish. They only had a logo written around the inner most ring. Afaik, they weren't special for printing, and the surface finish wasn't anything different than the usual one.
Given how many dev promo, backup and master CDs I had to burn back in the dim and distant, one of these beasties would have saved me a massive amount of dicking about. And yes, I would have definitely printed 'fartsfartsfarts' on them given half a chance.
Looks nice for some basic labeling. I've given thought to things like Lightscribe or printable CDs, but the fact you need specialized discs for them to work turned me off. This thing looks like it would work for most of the shelf discs.
I have one of these but branded TDK.. I also have the coloured cartridges, the blue and the silver are pretty good, but the red and green are very vibrant and make great labels. I am not sure if it was a UK think to use the TDK brand, but I have cartridges from both Casio and TDK and they all work (and are identical).. I still use it, it really is one of the best solutions especially if you get the right disks
When youve shown us the CD with no face I was really bewildered But when you've shown us the transparent CD I was really out of words Come like I still cannot believe it never seen such stuff... 🤣
Duuude! This is awesome. I wish I knew it existed. I would have bought one for sure. I was a big fan of printable discs and labels because I loved doing color labels, but end of the day I wasn't a good enough artist to do custom stuff. I even bought one of the Epson MultiFunctions with the build in CD Printing tray because I'd always use the printable sheet applicator crooked or with too many bubbles. So I went with Lightscribe and fell in love since I could use it to print little clip arts and track lists easily. This would have been so much cleaner, i could have used just about any type of disc and not have that crappy off yellow/orange discs for lightscribe. Always learning something new on LGR. Thank you sir 🙂
I actually kinda want one now for some reason, even though I don't burn CDs and DVDs very often. Still I use to and it was a pain when the marker I used would smudge, or we wouldn't wait for it to dry before sticking into something. This would have been super helpful back then, but now I probably only use my CD/DVD burner a few times a year.
This brings back some good memories and also a little PTSD. Back when eBay was like the wild west in 2003 I was selling hundreds of cd's a week with really basic Nokia games and ringtones etc. I had 3 of these running constantly to label all the disks up. The 'click' at the end when the tray pops out gave me chills!
Ok this is a cool CD label printer (don’t we all still use sharpies though?) Need something external that burns ISO formats that can be read by win98SE - harder to find than you think…
Oh Wow, I had totally forgotten about the CW-50. I had one and it was pretty cool, for a few days. I eventually did go back to sharpies after using it a few times.
The sticker things for CD/DVD covers looked like such a good idea at face value, but I used them for a while in the early 2000s, and all of my discs with these labels became warped and "corrupted" by the glue!!! VERY BAD IDEA after all.
It was a fine idea, back when we all had 4x drives. ;-) Well... maybe not "fine," but "passable." Ink jets weren't that great back then either, so my labeled discs definitely had a ... uh ... "crafty" look to them.
Looked at the video and thought its just a printer for CD's. But it got exciting real fast! Quickly got into the whole what else can i print on! Great video! :D
Hi Clint, a long time fan from China here. Not sure if anyone is asking, but I am very happy with the current frequency of uploading that we call as "it is ready when it is ready". We will enjoy it if and only if you enjoy it. Bring it on!
I appreciate that! More often than not my Friday release schedule is proving to be a hindrance than a benefit these days, and I’d rather take the time to give projects the attention they deserve.
Some YT creators rush out videos every few days and the quality of them is patchy. LGR I appreciate how long these videos take to do. I'd much rather have a well researched and scripted video that you enjoyed making once every month or so than you getting demotivated at having to churn out more frequent videos that aren't up to your high standards. On a less positive note damn your videos. Every time I watch one I want to go out and buy whatever it is your reviewing. 😂. My retro collection has grown significantly since I started watching your videos. Keep up the great work.
Much agreed!
@@LGRjust gonna say I've noticed a lot of people will not wait til a particular day of the week when having a more irregular video frequency and just release it when it's ready and just do a community post announcing it while the video is processing and that seems to get as much if not more attention because it gets some hype.
@@LGRhave you ever heard of the creative labs text to speech on windows 95 it comes with the sound blaster awe 64 and 32 there demo is wild it seems to work by math equations l.
In 2004 my band and I used 4 of these to produce 1000 copies of our EP with band logo and album name direct on the CDs. The other local bands asked what service we used because they, at the time especially, just looked phenomenal. We got the 4 we had when Office Depot clearanced them along with every black ink cartridge they had. Took a few days doing all the top area on all the discs first, then a few days doing all the bottom areas. We used the pure blank kind of CD-Rs.
The trick to images was a lot of tweaking and test printing to get the contrast just right to take into account how the printer rendered images.
That's really cool! Do you still have any of those original CDs?
Did NOT expect it to be this good!! What a wonderful little printer, Kudos to Casio!! ♥
As the box said: "CASIO, the unexpected extra" =)
Casio products really are built to last (even the stuff that's supposed to have gone bad like printers)...
It's a Casio. Back then, they were the underdog that could. Well, when they punched out of their wheelhouse, that is.
I Love Casio products, ESPECIALLY the calculators. Took an FX-7500gii graphing calculator and literally turned it into the newer/better model FX-8600gii with a software flash and they use standard Mini USB instead of the weird ass shit TIs use(d?)
@aserta They still can and do
That app window with the big semicircle sticking out of the top gives me strong 2000 vibes, it seemed so cutting edge to have non-rectangular windows!
Throwback to those Windows Media Player skins.
As a 12 year old who spent an extreme amount of time with CD labels and print shop programs, this would have blown my mind if I knew about it. I always hated how you could tell it was just a sticker on the CD. This little Casio is amazing!
Same!
Back when optical media was even relevant, the best thing to label them with was a sharpie - cheap, and quick
@@gorak9000 Might seem silly, but I took pride in the discs I made. Music mixes, game compilations, Manga Volumes, and home movies. These were discs I used all the time. I liked to have them looking nice
@@gorak9000 wrong. Sharpies are acidic, because they're alcohol based, and eat through the top coating of the discs. The best pens to use were overhead pens (which are impossible to get now) which were the exact same they also sold as disc writing pens. Basically you need to use ones that are water based and soft or you ruin the discs
@@thesteelrodent1796 I have many ancient cd's and dvds from the 90's that were marked with sharpies, and there's absolutely no issue. For quite a while, Fuji blank media even came with a Steadler permanent maker shrink wrapped to the case of discs!
Casio have stood the test of time. Honestly, I've NEVER encountered a Casio product that didn't work unless it was seriously & physically damaged. I collect old Synths / Keys etc and have dozens of them. However I've had several Roland synth keybeds go tits up in only a few years. But never once with a Casio! Such an under rated company.
Ever messed around with any of their graphing calculators?
I had a thing against Casio for a while because they had so danged many different models of watches that they'd pull mild scams selling weekly specials: They'd advertise a "50% off sale" and quietly pull their basic workhorse $10 watches from the shelves so you'd just be buying an ever-so-slightly better "$20" watch for $10. But I did eventually come around, and I'm sitting here typing this wearing a Tough Solar that I absolutely love. 😅 And when I was browsing a certain giant online retailer for that watch, one of the reviewers said he'd been wearing his for 10 years and it was still going strong.
(Muffled casio by mindless self indulgence)
Whatever Casio made their products out of, it's a material to rival Nintendium
I dropped my casio digicam and it fell down stairs, and 10ft onto a concrete floor and it survived with only a bit of corner damage
This is the kind of stuff that is lost to time that make me feel older every day. Being a computer nerd 20-25 years ago just felt different. The internet felt different. The possibilities felt different. Going all digital and dropping physical media just feels weird.
I want to burn come CDs now. But I don't even have an optical drive anymore, let alone a CDR. Also get off my lawn.
I know what you mean. I had to order a USB DVD Burner with my new PC, just in case....
Reification moment
Never got rid of my optical drives. My main PC has a BD-ROM drive, and a BD-RW drive. And my laptop has an external BD-ROM drive + DVD burner. I absolutely refuse to use streaming services, not because I'm against digital, but because I will not pay for digital media if it doesn't include a DRM free download. So I still mostly use DVD's, with the occasional Blu-ray (though I don't have an easy way to play those directly without ripping them first). Some stuff I just sail the high seas, stuff I want to collect I still get DVD's today.
I'm not against the concept of digital media. But unless it's high quality and DRM free I won't touch it. I do not stream music or movies. I either have physical media or I have my own DRM-free files on my Linux server (obtained via the high seas or ripping disks myself).
@@StormsparkPegasus Arrgg matey, welcome aboard the Black Pearl, may she sail forever!😁
I'm 21 and I have an old radio here that has such a good sound to it. I just keep buying CD-Rs and flashing some songs I usually hear on Spotify to them on my first and old computer. I don't know why, but it feels so good to listen to that paralised in time radio. Guess it's the same thing with people using vinils at CD times. But I don't know, listening music online is so fusy and noisy sometimes, tones of distractions and things screaming for my atention.
Clint's genuine excitement and joy over a label printer is the most adorable and wholesome thing on this Earth.
U geh
It prints pretty fast and accurate. Wow. Totally surprised.
Honestly if CDs were still a thing people did more of today, this would be awesome to have.
@@DasGanon I FUDGING Wish.
I was very surprised it prints in one pass, that is an unusually wide print head.
Honestly "Dude this is neat" is the whole vibe for the channel, I love it.
Heh, you're not wrong.
We still use the CW-100(top of the line version - auto-spins the disc to the other label area) to this day at my office. I wish I had bought more at the time than the two we have. The software still works on Windows 10 and we still have to make DVDs for the US Navy. They still sell the ribbons. There is nothing that compares to it available these days other than pricey thermal printers that can print the entire disc surface.
They still turn up on eBay from time to time. I bought a spare one on there at least 5 years ago and haven’t needed it yet (I just tested it when it arrived).
I had a couple at my old job as well. I made sure to grab a spare online when it came up since they are so rare and they were essential for our software distribution at the time.
Wow, I'm a bit surprised that they still sell the cartridges. I was sitting here thinking you'd have to cannibalize the cartridges from one of their other printers at this point.
@@Dee_Just_Dee thermal is current tech and it would not surprise me if those ribbons are also used for a bunch of other stuff. After all there are millions of receipt and different size label printers in use every day, and Casio is one of the companies that make them
@@thesteelrodent1796Lots of receipts are printed on thermal paper, no ink needed. You can take a pointed object (retractable pen, your fingernail, etc.) and make a mark on them, if they are. Fun fact, hand sanitizer can interact with thermal paper, I know this from experience during the pandemic, working in a grocery store.
I had one of these in 2005 and was using it for my commercial music production company. I was using matte surface blank CD's without any labels on them and printing my own company logo and the titles of the tracks on them. It produced extremely professional-looking, hence cool results. Before that, I was delivering my school project for my music school with the help of this device, looking pimp!
Then the mp3 e-mailing era started and it reached its end of life. Great quality product tough. Another Japanese product with high satisfaction, that deserves love. I'm glad you enjoyed it too, Clint.
If I knew these existed in the early 2000's I would have used them on a regular basis 😂
This is such a cool device! I was not expecting anything from it but as your experiments went on and on and I got more and more excited of the possibilities. Now I want one of these printers! It's so simple and the result looks more than passable.
thermal printer ''''hacking''''' is really popular in Art school, you can grab one for really cheap (free) in a lot of places and the majority are not that smart so you can take their guts out and do w/e the fuck you want.
Man, every time I see Windows XP on a CRT the memories comes rushing back.
I feel you, brother. I am the same, whenever I see Win 95 running. Takes me back to my teens. It was the first MS OS I had, before that I worked with Daddy's C-64
Especially that background. Could literally taste the color of the XP bar when I saw it
That classic 4:3 aspect ratio!
for those of us who started with DOS 2.0: "what is this weird modern thing?". I mean, in 6th grade IT class we were shown a demonstration of the GEM desktop environment and didn't even have Windows on the school PCs because it was unnecessary. "DOS works just fine" as we were told
I find it a bit sad that Casio never really got the love they deserved. They always made some very interesting stuff that never really caught on.
They got love in the music industry!
@@AaronHendu and digital watches! who doesn't love the classic F-91W?!
and the Casio Loopy - because everything's improved by adding a thermal printer, even a games console!
@@ahman324 Speaking of watches, early this year a retired footballer dumped his girlfriend (a somewhat famous singer) so she made a "diss" track about him where she says leaving her for another woman was like changing a Rolex for a Casio, the song went viral in Europe so Casio gave the guy a sponsorship deal and now he promotes his Casio watch everywhere he goes, lol.
@@LagrangePoint0Please, tell me more. This sounds crazy!
I would have been all over this had I known it existed back in the day. Instead I have binders full of sharpie labeled burned discs :)
I really like the idea of printing on those clear CD spindle toppers. It has some serious art project potential
Hi Clint,
I actually had one of these except it was badged TDK here in the UK, WOW, takes me back.
I used it for labelling mix cd's for the car, and as we saw, I never had any problems labelling ink jet compatible media.
Now I have an Epson all in one printer with a CD/DVD Tray which does not get used a fraction as much as the in my case the TDK.
Love your videos, looking forward to your next one.
That "Oooooo" when the printer begins printing "fartsfartsfarts" eloquently summarizes the mood of your channel. I love all the things you do, and have learned so much with a sprinkle of christmas clones.
Yeah... but what if you printed the label with the CW-50 and then on the other side used the Yamaha Disc Tattooing thing and create the ultimate form of customized digital storage?
I'd have absolutely loved one of these 20 years ago.
Had this printer back when they came out - it was great! I also got the later model which had an auto-rotate function so you could print the top and bottom areas without having to manually turn the disc around. Had all the ribbon colours I could get hold of! They were great and I still have many of the discs I printed with it.
For full-disc colour thermal printes, look up the Rimage Prism III, which was mainly used for black printing but you could get CMY ribbons and do full colour, or even more expensive would be something like the Rimage Everest range of thermal disc printers - again they would print either black or full colour, depending on the ribbons used. I believe the manufaturer stopped producing the ribbons for these printers a few years ago (which is what made me sell all of mine) but there may be clones or old stock still out there.
Cool! I wish I knew about this 12 years ago! The fact that it's kinda cheap and not fully automated allows for so many possibilities. Prints on top of prints, full color images if you overlay the Red Green and Blue prints, maybe you could move the disc in there while it's printing to make some weird glitchy effects...
Full color prints was the first thing that came to my mind... what else can you print that aren't obsolete cds? would love to have something like this... you can do for example billboards or stuff like truck/train paint on 3d printed models, decals would be the term? this has a lot of potential, hooked to a GBC with a better, newer Game Boy camera, stuff like that..
I love these ideas so much.
when I saw him accidentally print over the other printing it made me realize "hey... you could make a full color label!"
You can't print full color with RGB. You need CMY.
I think its actual basic out-of-the-box function is impressive enough. When you use it on plain lacquered disc like at 13:38 it's basically indistinguishable from a commercially pressed and printed disc, like Clint said. If you're a small-time musician, you could churn out a bunch of discs for absolute lunch money and have them look like they came from five-figure contract.
I almost forgot that "inkjet compatible" CD-Rs were a thing.
I've got a spindle of similarly textured blank Blu-Rays (haven't used em in years) that have a matte white finish on the top with no labelling at all (they might say what they are in fine print around the inner hole, can't remember) and I bet they would work great with this thing.
Anything that has Clint laughing while using it makes for the best videos
From the looks of things, I think this works a bit like my job’s price tag printers, where it hears up some sheet in the necessary shape and then sticks it to the surface. Can those kind of ribbons even dry out? What I think is really cool about those kind of ribbons is if you look at them you can see the like reverse version of your image/ words
I think those ribbons can't dry out per se, given that they are completely dry in the first place. But I bet they will undergo some kind of chemical degradation of the material over time. However, how long will it take to become unusable, I have no idea.
Exactly, it'll work like a modern dye sublimation photo printer, where it selectively melts a polymer "dye" compound off of a of plastic ribbon onto the disk. This is basically the exact same way that Brother label printers work too. There's nothing to "dry out", it's just a sheet of plastic.
Lacquer! Matte! Inkjet! DISC COVER! Just gone mad with power there! And here I was squealing in fascination all the way.
When I saw the title I said to myself, "I like where this is going!". Of course LGR did not disappoint! 😊
15 minutes of an adult man printing "fartsfartsfarts" and blurry black and white pictures onto CDs, and I enjoyed every second of it
Wish I had one of these back in the 90's! Much nicer than the stomper
That's way better than just taking a permanent marker to the CD-R. No worries about marker ink bleeding through and messing with the disc or anything too.
I have a stack of Mitsui Silver CD-Rs that I bought specifically because they were both high quality and had a nice brand-free top. They would be perfect for a printer like this.
Cool! I wonder if you can make a label that lets you create color prints with several passes of different colored inks? like make an LGR where its RGB and print the L first then G then R with different inks, or maybe a 3d effect by slightly shifting the text and reprinting over it? Lots of fun to be had with that.
The problem with normal thermal transfer is the melted plastic sits on top of the other layers so the colors don't mix. When you work it out, you get dye-sublimation printing; the ribbons have dye that evaporates onto the medium with heat. Dye-sub is known for very high quality results.
@@straightpipedieselI bet you could use color dithering to get around that, it might give an interesting effect
@@PineJayForgeHonestly, having played around with a similar printer, I think you would just end up with a horrible mess due to the printhead lifting off parts of the previous layer. It just doesn't seem worth the hassle when you can buy a used Rimage disc printer for a couple hundred bucks.
It’s a cool product and I had a feeling this would turn out well. I was born in the iPod age, so I have very few early memories of people burning cds but the solution I remember seeing the most was people just taking a sharpie and writing on the labeled side. And that always seemed to do the job just fine. This seems like the closest version to that but without having to worry about battling your own terrible handwriting.
The holt grail of cd printers is the defunct Dymo Disc Painter. Something i've wanted for years since inkjet printers that print on CDs are for some reason incredibly expensive.
I had one of these! It was really cool to make my own customized CDs (or copy real ones and make them look official). I remember it being very easy to smudge though, so I always had to carefully handle the discs from the edges.
This is really impressive! I didn't expect this to work so well. I'm curious how it would work if you printed some text (0r an image) then swapped the cartridge out for a different color. Like red text over blue text for example. Would the result be purple, would it not work, or would it just produce some weird unsatisfactory result. I'd also be curious as to how well the prints hold up over time. Too bad they didn't produce a machine that could print over the entire area of a cd. Still a really cool piece of tech though!
Dye sub printers like the Canon Selphy and the instant photo print machine at the local chemists work by doing three passes. The "ink" on the ribbon is quite translucent though so that would be an important factor.
This is such a cool printer, I'm amazed it never took off. I remember drama teachers having to use lightscribe or paper presses and it never looking nearly as good as this
I had a friend give me a lightscribe burner when it first released, cannot remember the brand...but I was only like 12 and couldnt afford or find any lightscribe cd-r to use with it. I have owned so many lightscribe drives since and never once used the feature.
The year is 2172. Archaeologists have unearthed a box believed to be from the TH-cam era. Carefully, they remove the lid, wondering with excitement what knowledge can be gleaned from this discovery. They are greeted with stacks of discs labeled fartsfartsfarts.
I had one of these on my desk as the special projects NCO when I was in the Army. It was one of my favorite toys and went real nicely with my 12 disc cd duplication tower.
Man, being a DJ during this era was great. You were IT when you used this to make the latest mix CD to give all your friends! It was also the absolute best way to apply for new DJ gigs.
We used this every week at church to print labels on the sermon CDs we would hand out to anyone who missed a week or wanted to re-listen. We used the exact Sony or Verbatim CD-Rs (as long as they had the blank spot at the top of the disc). Always worked really well!
it's the fall of 1999, woodstock just crashed the party and we're back to school
some kid is selling burnt cd's for 15$ in the lunchroom, but the new kid is selling burnt cd's for 18$ but their is cover art on the disc
the new kid is ballin' now and taking the babe the the first dance.
thank you casio.
First you get the labels, then you get the power, then you get the women
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Back in the day, making custom audio CDs was the in-thing to do, especially doing the CD label as well as the artwork for the front and back cover. The main bugbear was always trying to find CD-R's without any proprietary printing on them, (quite literally blank CDs), so that you could print your own labels directly onto the discs. You did need a special type of printer to do it, though, and I supposed this device would have worked.. kind of. I suppose changing the cartridge out for different colours might have helped, but it wasn't perfect by any means. The best I ever managed was those sticky labels with the applicator featured. Far from perfect as most CDs didn't have solid labelling to them, unless you could find transparencies, which again were rare and/or expensive. Not that it mattered too much, once mp3 players became a thing, the interest in such things waned quite significantly.
That's really cool! Kinda makes me wonder how a lot of the bootleggers printed on the discs (at least the ones that didn't use a label), saw a lot of that from a lot of Asian shops back then.
I was hoping cool crab would make an appearance, I was not disappointed!😂
For something that seems so easy to use, it certainly has a large user manual. 😆 I would be interested in seeing what is included in the manual. I was pleasantly surprised with this printer. Good video as usual!
Also: farts 🤣
Only Clint could make a video about a CD printer entertaining and fascinating!
Do you like Jason's Band? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when New Album came out in '01, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. They've been compared to Slint, but I think Jason has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In ''02, Jason released this; My Best, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Don't Be Afraid". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.
Hey Paul!
I opened for Jason’s Band in ‘05 at The Hexagon in Minneapolis, but at that point the ship had sailed.. Robert walked away like late 2003/early ‘04 and they were mostly filling that void with loop pedals and a lot of reverb :/ I dunno if Jason was trying to get more experimental or if it was just kind of messy “shoegazey” attempts.. Not gonna lie, pretty sure he was on something when I tried talking to him before his set and he wasn’t very friendly.. But, there’s no denying the magic in the room when he did an acoustic of “This Song” that night after the newer stuff. That really pulled the audience in..
Still have a Jason’s Band shirt somewhere..
Honestly Clint, some of my favourite videos and video topics of yours are the ones that cover the seemingly mundane tech of yesteryear like this. Thing is, it's old and outdated so you don't see them used anymore, they're before my time so I've never heard of them or seen one , let alone used one, and they're mundane enough that they aren't remembered or celebrated as anything special. All of this just makes them even more ripe for covering in a video, just as much as some classic bit of hardware or software from back in the day or one of your big wild projects.
Also honestly - I was wondering how effective a solution for labelling discs this would be and I'm as surprised as you are how effective it is; those are some genuinely really good results.
That printer is awesome! I bet you can print on all sorts of other stuff too. It's a pity you have such a small area to work with.
From my experience, we only had special pens to write on CDs...
"Put that thing down, flip it, and reverse it" 😂
I've still got mine in some closet somewhere! Loved this thing, gave my mix CDs a more pro look!
I kind of miss having programs that were a different shape than a rectangle.
I wonder how color printing with multiple layers would work. Of course you'd have to have the colored ribbons.
OMG, you're going to Long Island?! That's where I'm originally from, though I live elsewhere in NY now. The LI Retro Game expo is a load a fun, plus it's in an aerospace museum! I need to plan to go that show more often, I can't make it this year. Maybe next year I'll go, and make it an excuse to visit my parents.
Also, don't do what I did and leave the expo with 100s of dollars of retro video games. Or do, I can't tell you what to do.
I would actually use something like this NOW if I had one. Lots of backup operating system DVDs that could use labels.
CASIO CD refusing to be printed by its own device: "Your spells have no power here!"
I recall working for a photofinishing shop that had a bunch of these. The shop had a lot of digital output and camcorder export jobs. So I was paid to write them a small utility program to generate overview images from videos or albums that were then printed onto CDs/DVDs. Glad to see these lovely machines again.
I would have LOVED this as a kid!
Whenever LGR uploads it brings a new meaning to “fun day Friday”.
This
It is Friday, my dudes.
Massa-san!?
This reminds me of a lot of cheaper fax machines I've seen which use the full sheet sized "thermal ribbon". They work fine UNLESS you have them in a hot office and then you wind up with a non-working fax and when you remove the ribbon holder to find out what's wrong, it pulls out like taffy leaving gooey black s___ inside the printer (ask me how I know about that LOL)
Like a child with a label maker. Label all the things
I have one of these, I usually prepare my images with high-contrast and utilize a few other techniques to get the best result.
I know once upon a time there was a Canon? It printed color on discs but the discs probably had to be used w/ paper tops but I could be wrong.
((I would wonder if inkjet could print on discs... but you'd probably have to finish it with a spray of some kind so that the ink would set quick and couldn't be smudged...))
Man, this sounds like a cool idea. The only thing better, IMO, is the Lightscribe system. Then again, I grew up with burned PS2 games with Lightscribe labels, so I think it's mostly nostalgia.
Thermal printers are incredible when they work, endless headaches when they break. Old job had me repairing label thermal printers back in the day. Most amazing thing on the high scale models is how fast they can go. Full letter size labels in a second.
I ended up getting a light scribe DVD-RW at one point as well. Never found blanks for it though, they weren't available anywhere. Were light scribe DVD's even a thing or did my parents get conned?
I have lived in NYC since 1992 and didn't know about this retro expo. There's so many events that go on here that a lot are easy to miss. By the way, I make custom CDs, DVDs, and VCDs for people. I was looking for a way to print on discs like this. This is awesome. Now I want one. Thanks for reviewing it! 👍
I busted out laughing IRL when you printed the data side of the driver CD, and then the envelope it came in hahaha. Nice.
Edit: cool crab cameo! What I was hoping for all along! Yay!
Aside from some braided ones, I have never seen a silver USB cable - it looks so nice! Now I kinda want one, haha.
Anyway, I'm very surprised to see it work as good as it does. It's like the little engine that could! It just doesn't care. :D
Verbatim had some blank discs back in 2010ish. They only had a logo written around the inner most ring. Afaik, they weren't special for printing, and the surface finish wasn't anything different than the usual one.
I wanted one of these SO BADLY back in the days when I was really into making :::ahem:: backups of CDs.
Given how many dev promo, backup and master CDs I had to burn back in the dim and distant, one of these beasties would have saved me a massive amount of dicking about. And yes, I would have definitely printed 'fartsfartsfarts' on them given half a chance.
Looks nice for some basic labeling. I've given thought to things like Lightscribe or printable CDs, but the fact you need specialized discs for them to work turned me off. This thing looks like it would work for most of the shelf discs.
Well I picked up a CW-75 and it's in super good condition. I also got a power supply and fresh ink and WOW!! Thanks for the video.
Older Rimage printers used thermal tapes also. full color. great quality just expensive
I have one of these but branded TDK.. I also have the coloured cartridges, the blue and the silver are pretty good, but the red and green are very vibrant and make great labels. I am not sure if it was a UK think to use the TDK brand, but I have cartridges from both Casio and TDK and they all work (and are identical).. I still use it, it really is one of the best solutions especially if you get the right disks
When youve shown us the CD with no face I was really bewildered
But when you've shown us the transparent CD I was really out of words
Come like I still cannot believe it
never seen such stuff...
🤣
This disc-labelling system is the most fun yet.
Duuude! This is awesome. I wish I knew it existed. I would have bought one for sure.
I was a big fan of printable discs and labels because I loved doing color labels, but end of the day I wasn't a good enough artist to do custom stuff. I even bought one of the Epson MultiFunctions with the build in CD Printing tray because I'd always use the printable sheet applicator crooked or with too many bubbles.
So I went with Lightscribe and fell in love since I could use it to print little clip arts and track lists easily.
This would have been so much cleaner, i could have used just about any type of disc and not have that crappy off yellow/orange discs for lightscribe.
Always learning something new on LGR. Thank you sir 🙂
I actually kinda want one now for some reason, even though I don't burn CDs and DVDs very often. Still I use to and it was a pain when the marker I used would smudge, or we wouldn't wait for it to dry before sticking into something. This would have been super helpful back then, but now I probably only use my CD/DVD burner a few times a year.
This brings back some good memories and also a little PTSD. Back when eBay was like the wild west in 2003 I was selling hundreds of cd's a week with really basic Nokia games and ringtones etc. I had 3 of these running constantly to label all the disks up. The 'click' at the end when the tray pops out gave me chills!
For backup PS1 and PS2 instead of using a sharpie this printer is a goodman nice tool
Ok this is a cool CD label printer (don’t we all still use sharpies though?)
Need something external that burns ISO formats that can be read by win98SE - harder to find than you think…
As someone who suffers from both being left-handed and having terrible penmanship, I used to covet one of these.
Ohhh duuude. The whole time I was waiting for cool crab to show his clippy little face, you did not disappoint!
Oh Wow, I had totally forgotten about the CW-50. I had one and it was pretty cool, for a few days. I eventually did go back to sharpies after using it a few times.
I was not expecting how off the rails the experiments would go. I'm surprised you didn't stick your hand in there :)
You should try to lightscribe a disk then add thermal printing over ! You'd get "two" color !
A friend has a light scribe. When I see the Casio brand I think of calculators.
I love you man. I watch your videos every night. You're one of my favorite people on earth ❤❤❤
The sticker things for CD/DVD covers looked like such a good idea at face value, but I used them for a while in the early 2000s, and all of my discs with these labels became warped and "corrupted" by the glue!!! VERY BAD IDEA after all.
I saw one of those labels rip off in a 52x drive...it destroyed the disc and the drive.
It was a fine idea, back when we all had 4x drives. ;-)
Well... maybe not "fine," but "passable." Ink jets weren't that great back then either, so my labeled discs definitely had a ... uh ... "crafty" look to them.
Clint, how do you find all of those old ads? Always baffles me!
Why I didn't know about this 20y ago 😂 👍 missed sales 😂
Looked at the video and thought its just a printer for CD's. But it got exciting real fast! Quickly got into the whole what else can i print on! Great video! :D
Happy to hear it, thanks!
OMG you'll be at LI retro gaming?? Woo-hoo!! Hope I run into you!
Ah yes, another cool Friday by LGR! Thanks for this, what a very interesting CD printer! 📀😁
Damn that is an awesome product! Why haven't we seen more of these?
if they had youtube back then for people to see how good it actually was, they probably would have sold way more