Customer Rating: 
Summary: Quick and easy
Comment: If you can judge well enough by eye whether you've rotated the disc 180 degrees, this is for you. Of course there's a template for the rotationally challenged. Prints quickly and easily on mirror surfaced media.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Acceptable but I wouldn't buy it again
Comment: I bought this unit when it had a huge rebate here at Amazon for a few days, and I certainly wouldn't spend anything close to the asking price for it.
Positives:
1. It's a relatively small device, so it can fit behind my LCD monitor, instead of taking up a lot of space on my desk or hutch.
2. It prints titles fairly well. You'll need as blank a surface as possible. I have a bunch of Memorex media which have very faintly raised lines -- they look flat to me!-- but the printing is messed up anywhere near them. Also, the printing is fairly faint, unless you print in BOLD, which is the default. I haven't tried graphics.
3. It looks better than my handwriting with a sharpie.
Negatives:
1. This isn't a 21st century technology: it would look more at home next to an Atari 800, and it uses ribbons instead of ink jet. I like the fact that I don't have to worry about ink jet cleaning cycles and such, but now that I have it, the tiny ribbons run out so quickly it's ridiculous and retro.
2. "It's the ribbons, stupid!" I can't believe others have stated that this is economical. I guess it all depends on your expectations. The ribbons are so small that my unit ran out of ribbon after 25 titles: my titles, mind you, are just a few words, printed on one line. I was hoping to do the trick of rewinding the ribbon, but only the left spindle is accessible, so turning that backward only gives you a bubble of loose ribbon. I surgically opened the case, but 15 minutes later, after rewinding it, it wouldn't run smoothly and snapped. 25 titles? 7 bucks a ribbon? That means that the title is costing more than the media I'm buying.
3. When I plug it into the USB port, it usually takes me four or five tries before the unit is properly recognized. Perhaps all the error messages when doing this have to do with the fact that the drivers are not XP certified.
4. I haven't tried printing on an "inkjet printable" medium, but the manual warns that the printer won't work on those, or rather, the ink will smear.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd wait for a sale on an inkjet printer that printed on cdr/dvdr's instead.
LATER: For what it's worth, I filled out a $20 rebate. When I got the check 2 months later, it was dates for deposit less than two weeks away! I was travelling at the time, but when I got home and got the check, I deposited it two days after its "deposit by" date, and the check was returned due to "account closed." Maybe it was my bad for trying (I got charged a lot of penalty fees), but it still seemed like a racket. I'll never buy anything by Casio again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Should have thought twice
Comment: I was looking for a labeler that would look better then paper labels. I read some of the online reveiews here on Amazon and purchased the printer. Very limited....and the cartridges are not cheap.
I recently purchased a Epson R220 Color Printer that prints directly on printable CD's. Wow Awesome what a difference.
I should have waited.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Casio CW-50 CD Title Printer
Comment: Excellent addition to any system when you will be producing a large amount of CD/DVD's. Adds a real professional touch, plus makes labeling a lot more legible (sharpy just doesn't always cut i?!?!?).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Delivered as Advertised
Comment: Received the product on time and as advertised. I would do business with them again.
Summary: Quick and easy
Comment: If you can judge well enough by eye whether you've rotated the disc 180 degrees, this is for you. Of course there's a template for the rotationally challenged. Prints quickly and easily on mirror surfaced media.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Acceptable but I wouldn't buy it again
Comment: I bought this unit when it had a huge rebate here at Amazon for a few days, and I certainly wouldn't spend anything close to the asking price for it.
Positives:
1. It's a relatively small device, so it can fit behind my LCD monitor, instead of taking up a lot of space on my desk or hutch.
2. It prints titles fairly well. You'll need as blank a surface as possible. I have a bunch of Memorex media which have very faintly raised lines -- they look flat to me!-- but the printing is messed up anywhere near them. Also, the printing is fairly faint, unless you print in BOLD, which is the default. I haven't tried graphics.
3. It looks better than my handwriting with a sharpie.
Negatives:
1. This isn't a 21st century technology: it would look more at home next to an Atari 800, and it uses ribbons instead of ink jet. I like the fact that I don't have to worry about ink jet cleaning cycles and such, but now that I have it, the tiny ribbons run out so quickly it's ridiculous and retro.
2. "It's the ribbons, stupid!" I can't believe others have stated that this is economical. I guess it all depends on your expectations. The ribbons are so small that my unit ran out of ribbon after 25 titles: my titles, mind you, are just a few words, printed on one line. I was hoping to do the trick of rewinding the ribbon, but only the left spindle is accessible, so turning that backward only gives you a bubble of loose ribbon. I surgically opened the case, but 15 minutes later, after rewinding it, it wouldn't run smoothly and snapped. 25 titles? 7 bucks a ribbon? That means that the title is costing more than the media I'm buying.
3. When I plug it into the USB port, it usually takes me four or five tries before the unit is properly recognized. Perhaps all the error messages when doing this have to do with the fact that the drivers are not XP certified.
4. I haven't tried printing on an "inkjet printable" medium, but the manual warns that the printer won't work on those, or rather, the ink will smear.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd wait for a sale on an inkjet printer that printed on cdr/dvdr's instead.
LATER: For what it's worth, I filled out a $20 rebate. When I got the check 2 months later, it was dates for deposit less than two weeks away! I was travelling at the time, but when I got home and got the check, I deposited it two days after its "deposit by" date, and the check was returned due to "account closed." Maybe it was my bad for trying (I got charged a lot of penalty fees), but it still seemed like a racket. I'll never buy anything by Casio again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Should have thought twice
Comment: I was looking for a labeler that would look better then paper labels. I read some of the online reveiews here on Amazon and purchased the printer. Very limited....and the cartridges are not cheap.
I recently purchased a Epson R220 Color Printer that prints directly on printable CD's. Wow Awesome what a difference.
I should have waited.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Casio CW-50 CD Title Printer
Comment: Excellent addition to any system when you will be producing a large amount of CD/DVD's. Adds a real professional touch, plus makes labeling a lot more legible (sharpy just doesn't always cut i?!?!?).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Delivered as Advertised
Comment: Received the product on time and as advertised. I would do business with them again.