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DYMO DiscPainter
Introduction
Back in the days before the tinnitus set in, long before I was off on my own at college or cruising the back roads of my rural mid-western homeland, I was in front of a dual head tape deck carefully crafting mix tapes to blast at full volume through my size-of-a-paperback Sony Walkman. These were no mere collection of felt pen labeled, forgettable cassettes of magnetic detritus. I hand-built mix tapes. My tapes were complete with decoupaged inserts; my imagery lovingly snipped from skate magazines, the latest issue of SPIN or photo magazines liberated from my high school art studio. The art of the mix tape is well documented and I was a Van Gogh. But now any hack can slap together a CD full of sickening pop ballads, paste a sticky backed label on it and call it art. Ubiquitous inkjet printers spit out copy after copy of poor excuses for homemade cover art and suddenly everyone is a Pink Floyd album artist. To really make your mark, you need superior hardware. To rise above the sea of DIY album art mediocrity, you might need a DYMO. Yes, that's DYMO...as in "saves you TYMO." I've used a DYMO label maker for various chores around the office and have come to like their easy to use devices. But this entry into the CD label realm is completely new to me. The DYMO DiscPainter is a self contained CD and DVD printer that cranks out glossy labels straight to the face of a disc. In fact, this Mac Mini sized printer comes with everything you need to start churning out some quality label art at up to 1200 dpi. First Impressions  As usual, this DYMO product is rather minimalist in appearance. The clear plastic flip-up CD loading hatch houses a chromed receptacle for your empty polycarbonate canvas. The rest of the unit is a sleek, smooth silver box that reminds me of some houses I saw in the Netherlands. Those Dutch. Also hiding in the box are a few blank inkjet printable discs, a power cable and adapter, USB cable, inkjet cartridge, an installation CD and quick start guide. Another flip top lid conceals the ink cartridge and interior printing components. A single, multi-color ink magazine is all that's required. Otherwise there isn't much to fuss about. The total footprint of the DiscPainter is negligible at best equating to roughly the size of a stack of DVD cases. This printer is about as simple as it gets. Let's print some CDs.
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