| Inkjet DVD printers provide brilliant, photo-quality | | | | dry properly. Some people may even have |
| color printing for your DVDs. With advancements | | | | screen-printed images on DVDs, with inkjet |
| in the world of printing in color fidelity, printing | | | | printing or labeling done on the blank areas. |
| resolutions, disc alignment, and drying, inkjet | | | | Images from inkjet DVD printers are of high |
| printing on DVDs has become the preferred | | | | resolution and are full colored. However, the |
| option for printing on DVDs. These DVD printers | | | | disadvantage here is that the resulting images can |
| are economically priced so that anyone needing to | | | | get smudged by high humidity or with damp |
| print on DVDs can easily acquire one. | | | | fingers. So these DVDs are not actually |
| The main reason people use inkjet DVD printers | | | | recommended for automotive or other harsh |
| would be, of course, to label discs to impart a | | | | environments. |
| more polished and professional look to the DVD. | | | | When storing these DVDs, it is important not to |
| While using an inkjet DVD printer, the DVD has to | | | | store or ship them in flexible plastic envelopes as |
| be an inkjet-printable disc. Inkjet printing works by | | | | the package materials may interact with the ink |
| ejecting the colored ink from the print head onto | | | | and make the image on the DVD stick to the |
| the surface of the DVD. The difference between | | | | sleeve of the envelope and spoil the image. So it |
| these DVDs and others is that they have an | | | | is preferable to use jewel cases or other |
| extra coating, called the Ink Absorption Layer. | | | | containers that do not contact the printed surface |
| This layer helps in receiving the ink from the | | | | of the DVD. |
| printer to allow it to stay in place long enough to | | | | |