Customer Rating: 
Summary: Worth the money
Comment: I recently purchased this printer and I can honestly say that it is worth the money.
I would not advice you to print this on any of those 'pre-textured' cds because the printer will not print over it. The manufacturer states that you need clear discs. ( I am using the silver-silver discs from RIDATA and they work and look great! )
Save yourself the hassle of ruining discs with labels that peel off due to different temperatures and such things and go with this nifty little printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Cheap Printer
Comment: This printer is no frills and does a good job on smooth CDs, however it's printing on textured CDs is unacceptable. Because the product description does not tell you this I have no choice but to give it 1 star. I bought a stack of 100 blank CDs and also 50 blank DVDs (I have not received the DVDs yet and hope they are not textured) and the money I saved by getting this no frills printer has now been wasted.
If it weren't for this downfall the printer would be deserving of 4 stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast and perfect one-color labels
Comment: I love this device. I do not want to wait minutes to fancy label each disc from my recorder in an ink jet, so this little printer fits the bill perfectly. 5 seconds and the label is done. The manufacturer is clear that smooth matte or silver finish discs are required. Such discs are easily available from online stores that import discs from the manufacturer (and are less easily found at retail stores).
I have had this device for 2.5 years (since they were nearly impossible to find) and it has worked every day without fault.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Depends on CD or DVD you are printing on.
Comment: I gave this printer 3 stars because your results depend on the media you are printing on. If the media you are using is textured in anyway, forget about using this printer. The CD / DVD must be perfectly smooth. With a smooth CD / DVD, the results look pretty good. If you are used to the paper labels you print and stick on, the result can look a little industrial because, unless you change ribbons between printing lines, its all one color. But with smooth media the results are clear and don't easily come off. With a textured surface, the results are really bad. All of my DVDs have a textured surface (TDK is what I use the most). The results are horrible when the media has a textured surface and smooth combination, (imation DVDs are like this). Please look at your favorite media before you buy this printer, I wish I knew this before I bought it because I don't want to switch media just to print a label clearly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fine If You Seek A No-Frills CD Printing Experience
Comment: I have had and used one of these for two years, and I find it workable and useful, despite its obvious graphic shortcomings. Most fonts appear somewhat pixilated when printed on CD surfaces. I have developed a 'palette' of fonts that work particularly well. Sans serif fonts such as Futura, Franklin Condensed and such seem to work the best.
Graphics tend to look particularly rotten, no matter how high the dpi of the image is. I am non-amazed at how an outline of a rectangle, made in bold, thick lines and saved at 1200 dpi, comes out looking like mud. This printer is best at simpler jobs.
The printer does its work quickly, which is good. I've had to bat out 50 or 60 CDs in an afternoon, and the printer is faster than I am with the discs!
THE SINGLE BIGGEST DRAWBACK to this and to other Casio CD printers are those @$(^@_^_@!~ ribbons. The ribbons hold exactly 40 prints. If you use 2 per CD, that means a fresh ribbon after every 20 discs. The ribbons are not sold in office supply stores. CompUSA carried them for a brief time, then moronically deleted them. And don't even think about OfficeMax, -Depot or Staples. The cheapest I've found the ribbons is here, at $7.00 apiece, or sometimes on eBay for less. I am always "counting bullets" with these infernal ribbons. IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING GETTING ONE OF THESE, TAKE THIS TO HEED: the ribbons are a supreme pain in the ass. They are hard to locate, expensive, and wastefully manufactured. The greedy souls at Casio could easily get another 20-50 prints' worth of ribbon on the cartridges.
As well, the ribbons often have flaws in their manufacture, making for fuzzy half-coverage of some prints.
I am probably making this printer sound worse than it really is. As said, if your ambitions are simply to have a title printed in regular type, without much ado, this will do the trick. If you seek anything more complex, you'll need a bigger and better machine.
Summary: Worth the money
Comment: I recently purchased this printer and I can honestly say that it is worth the money.
I would not advice you to print this on any of those 'pre-textured' cds because the printer will not print over it. The manufacturer states that you need clear discs. ( I am using the silver-silver discs from RIDATA and they work and look great! )
Save yourself the hassle of ruining discs with labels that peel off due to different temperatures and such things and go with this nifty little printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Cheap Printer
Comment: This printer is no frills and does a good job on smooth CDs, however it's printing on textured CDs is unacceptable. Because the product description does not tell you this I have no choice but to give it 1 star. I bought a stack of 100 blank CDs and also 50 blank DVDs (I have not received the DVDs yet and hope they are not textured) and the money I saved by getting this no frills printer has now been wasted.
If it weren't for this downfall the printer would be deserving of 4 stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fast and perfect one-color labels
Comment: I love this device. I do not want to wait minutes to fancy label each disc from my recorder in an ink jet, so this little printer fits the bill perfectly. 5 seconds and the label is done. The manufacturer is clear that smooth matte or silver finish discs are required. Such discs are easily available from online stores that import discs from the manufacturer (and are less easily found at retail stores).
I have had this device for 2.5 years (since they were nearly impossible to find) and it has worked every day without fault.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Depends on CD or DVD you are printing on.
Comment: I gave this printer 3 stars because your results depend on the media you are printing on. If the media you are using is textured in anyway, forget about using this printer. The CD / DVD must be perfectly smooth. With a smooth CD / DVD, the results look pretty good. If you are used to the paper labels you print and stick on, the result can look a little industrial because, unless you change ribbons between printing lines, its all one color. But with smooth media the results are clear and don't easily come off. With a textured surface, the results are really bad. All of my DVDs have a textured surface (TDK is what I use the most). The results are horrible when the media has a textured surface and smooth combination, (imation DVDs are like this). Please look at your favorite media before you buy this printer, I wish I knew this before I bought it because I don't want to switch media just to print a label clearly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fine If You Seek A No-Frills CD Printing Experience
Comment: I have had and used one of these for two years, and I find it workable and useful, despite its obvious graphic shortcomings. Most fonts appear somewhat pixilated when printed on CD surfaces. I have developed a 'palette' of fonts that work particularly well. Sans serif fonts such as Futura, Franklin Condensed and such seem to work the best.
Graphics tend to look particularly rotten, no matter how high the dpi of the image is. I am non-amazed at how an outline of a rectangle, made in bold, thick lines and saved at 1200 dpi, comes out looking like mud. This printer is best at simpler jobs.
The printer does its work quickly, which is good. I've had to bat out 50 or 60 CDs in an afternoon, and the printer is faster than I am with the discs!
THE SINGLE BIGGEST DRAWBACK to this and to other Casio CD printers are those @$(^@_^_@!~ ribbons. The ribbons hold exactly 40 prints. If you use 2 per CD, that means a fresh ribbon after every 20 discs. The ribbons are not sold in office supply stores. CompUSA carried them for a brief time, then moronically deleted them. And don't even think about OfficeMax, -Depot or Staples. The cheapest I've found the ribbons is here, at $7.00 apiece, or sometimes on eBay for less. I am always "counting bullets" with these infernal ribbons. IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING GETTING ONE OF THESE, TAKE THIS TO HEED: the ribbons are a supreme pain in the ass. They are hard to locate, expensive, and wastefully manufactured. The greedy souls at Casio could easily get another 20-50 prints' worth of ribbon on the cartridges.
As well, the ribbons often have flaws in their manufacture, making for fuzzy half-coverage of some prints.
I am probably making this printer sound worse than it really is. As said, if your ambitions are simply to have a title printed in regular type, without much ado, this will do the trick. If you seek anything more complex, you'll need a bigger and better machine.