Where can you get lightscribe discs on a spindle at a sensible price these days?

 

As far as I know, HP have discontinued the lightscribe range, which is a shame.

 

The most sensible price I can find are these, 200 for £52. Problem is they are all in individual cases, and that will be a bit of a pain!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200-Lightscribe-DVD-R-16x-1-2-4-7GB-Blank-Discs-in-Plastic-Cases-/300666582427?hash=item46011ff59b:g:TvMAAOSwWKtUxPA5

 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-43533-DVD-R-Printable-Spindle/dp/B00097CDHC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467301231&sr=8-1&keywords=lightscribe+dvd

 

X 4 = £49.76

They are printable, not light scribe :(

Surely you have a spare 50/ 100 spindle DVD case to transfer discs into/ onto ?

If not E-Bay again for a spindle case, they range £4 -£5 for a 100 spindle disc type case...

Edited 30 June, 201610 yr by giandougl

They are printable, not light scribe :(

oops :( I used the Amazon search on linked the top hit assuming they'd be lightscribe lol

Surely you have a spare 50/ 100 spindle DVD case to transfer discs into/ onto ?

If not E-Bay again for a spindle case, they range £4 -£5 for a 100 spindle disc type case...

Fine for a few discs, but I want to order about 800

Fine for a few discs, but I want to order about 800

Not quite clear at your first entry the total of 200 was stated, now it is now 800 discs?

I don't think you have a cat's chance in hell of get a container to hold 800 discs and sheer weight in one container will then become another problem for you..LOL

Dependant the rate of use of discs you are using couldn't they be easily replaced at half that number (at least)..??

Edited 1 July, 201610 yr by giandougl

I want to order 800 as they won't go out of date, so can be sat in a cupboard until we use them up. 800 should be enough for a couple of years supply.

 

800 on spindles is only 8 spindles of 100.

800 in individual cases takes up quite a bit more room.

 

I've also been looking into thermal transfer printers for discs, but they are in the £1000s

I have found less and less use of printable discs, for the amount of room they take once I have placed a film on them..

Since I have transferred 3/4 of my film disc collection into MP4 format and stored on my 2TB external hard-drive which can be used on my Samsung players, or any MP4 usb port..

Getting rid of DVD collection bit by bit which can now be carried around literally in my pocket..

These are going out to customers with software on them

 

They're not used for storing data in the office etc.

These are going out to customers with software on them

 

They're not used for storing data in the office etc.

if that's the case, Sam and given that a lot of laptops now longer come with optical drives would a bulk buy of SD cards or USB sticks be better (unless you have a rack of multi-burners)? 

BT/ Openreach recently sent out thousands of USB drives (8Gb) to update our laptops from 8 to 8.1.

We upload the software anyway, this is just goes out as part of the "pack" that customers get.

 

I've ordered 50 discs in jewelled cases for now until I can find stock or an alternative. 

It would certainly cut your costs to have a simple DVD printer to print onto a silver/white printable DVD or maybe CD (depending on the amount of data stored), which would be cheaper, but effective..??

As it is your customers freebie, it would still show good creditability issuing discs, that still look pretty/ or the part..but cheaper for you?

Yes we used to use inkjet but found the heads would constantly clog up as it wasn't being used for anything else

Might want to find a new way of doing things. Looks like Lightscribe was discontinued about 3yr ago. You'll be digging about for as new old stock.

 

It never really took off so I doubt you'll even get Chinese clone versions.

 

Ebay might be your best bet.

Go with branded USB drives, they cost buttons and when the customer is done, they become a walking advert.

 

Just IMHO.