how do you deliver CD's?

Do you put a custom label on them? What about the case?

I am looking for CD cases that are different than the standard thin plastic things, but don't cost a ton. Any suggestions? I typically put a label on the CD with my logo and the name of the client, date,etc.

I order DVD cases through Black River Imaging. they're costly but worth every $$. It's all about presentation.

I just saw these and am liking them

http://www.rebinder.co​m …cycled-cd-dvd-2-disc-case

Lightscribe the discs and put them into custom designed cases from WHCC.

Not the cheapest route but more than worth it when I hand them over to the customer and get a "WOW!"

for simple portraits just a CD with a Label usually. For Weddings I am doing flashdrives in a nice case.

Edit: I would like to get a lightscribe drive though. Cool stuff.

For several years now, I've burned my images to Taiyo Yuden silver-finished inkjet discs and printed client-customized images on a low-end Epson. I started with an Epson R260, now using an Epson Artisan 810 (although the cheapest current Epson that prints CDs is the Artisan 50).

I use Acoustica Label Maker as the software--it's intuitive, extremely powerful, continuously updated for hundreds of printers (including LightScribe)...and costs only $21 USD. Two things I like about it is that it's very easy to adjust the printing area on the fly and as a 3rd party application, it won't leave me with orphan files if I switch printers.

I've tried low-end HP printers, but found them distinctly inferior in image quality. Earlier Epsons were kind of cranky in operation, but the Artisan 810 is a real peach, resolving everything I ever disliked about low-end Epsons. They even seem to have solved the problem of the heads drying out if you went a week without printing (I've had to toss out Epsons for that reason before).

I like the silver-finished Taiyo Yuden discs because (beyond TY being some of the best quality discs available), the silvery sheen gives the images a pseudo 3-D effect, although it's not as bright and clear as printing on TY's white inkjet surface.

I'm getting client-custom printed DVD cases (a DVD case wrapped with a coated photograph) from WHCC for my higher-end jobs. For lower-end jobs, I use thin, clear plastic DVD cases that show the printed label.

Added: I've investigated flash drives, but my biggest problem with them is that the data can't be secured against either erasure or being written to by malware. In no time at all a flash drive with my logo on it would become a Typhoid Mary.

Same as RDKIRK here

How exactly does lightscribe work?

I like the idea of thumb drives....what type of case do you deliver them in? Good source for them at a good price?

lightscribe works by using a stronger laser than it uses for writing to burn into the coating on the oposite side of the disc, its time consuming and not as good as printable discs..

Pretty cool, I think my laptop has that but I never knew what it was! haha

I just use printable labels for now

I do Lightscribe. It's a low cost option and works well enough. Even though the image is much more drab than a beautifully printed color disc or label, clients always seem to ooo and ahh over it like they've never seen anything like it before.

I keep telling myself that I'd like to get a color printer to produce the disc, but I'm not unconcerned about how the image will hold up over time. This is something they're going to pull out many years from now and I worry about how it may fade.

I keep telling myself that I'd like to get a color printer to produce the disc, but I'm not unconcerned about how the image will hold up over time. This is something they're going to pull out many years from now and I worry about how it may fade.

I did a year-long fade test back when I started. I printed four discs, two using an Epson R260 with the then-new Claria inks and two with another R260 using Inkjetfly inks in a continuous ink system on Taiyo Yuden silver inkjet discs. The image was of a portrait client, a fair-skinned blonde, on a black background. I gaffered two discs to a southern-facing window that got constant light all day long. I put the other two discs into a black CD case and put them into a drawer.

I compared them a full year later. At first glance, I saw no problem with the exposed Claria disc, but on close comparison with the disc kept in the dark, I could see slight metamerism in the black areas and a bit of yellowing in the lighter areas. The blues had not faded, however. The Inkjetfly inks did better than expected, just a tiny bit more metamerism and fading than the Claria inks.

Remember, though, that a full year exposed to direct sunlight is pretty harsh--who treats a CD like that? Even then, the difference was slight.