Reviews/opinions between Epson R220 and HP DVD Writer dvd740e

I've seen good reviews here for the Epson R220 for printing labels onto DVDs. I just stumbled upon the HP DVD Writer dvd740e with Lightscribe laser etched technology for $129.00. Anyone have any experience/opinions? Thanks.

My Epson R220 worked for a year. Now the printer won't accept the DVD tray. The print head moves over, makes one pass and the tray ejects.
Epson says "buy a new tray" but with S+H $16....I think I'll buy a new printer.
The book says feed sheets to clean the rollers, but no luck. Any ideas?

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I will buy a new DVD writer for my mega. My short list is; NEC ND-3520A, Samsung TS-H552U/BEBN, LITE-ON SOHW-1693S, NEC ND-3540A.
I searched my list in the sticky optical device post but except ND-3540A, I could not find the other options in the list. I guess the post is a little bit older.
Is there anybody who has experience with the DVD writers in my list?

Quote from: ehassoy on 12-October-05, 02:35:01
I will buy a new DVD writer for my mega. My short list is; NEC ND-3520A, Samsung TS-H552U/BEBN, LITE-ON SOHW-1693S, NEC ND-3540A.
I searched my list in the sticky optical device post but except ND-3540A, I could not find the other options in the list. I guess the post is a little bit older.
Is there anybody who has experience with the DVD writers in my list?
Well I'm using a NEC 3520 and it's working perfectly. No troubles with eject-buttons or whatsoever. Works fine in Hifi-mode too. Except, in Hifi-mode when playing a cd with no gaps between songs (i.e. a live-cd) you loose sound for about half a second before it comes up again. But, I don't think that's a problem of the NEC, but with the Mega itself because I have seen posts about the same issue with different drives.

Epson R800 and CD/DVD printing

Using the Epson stylus photo R800 printer and its accompanying software Epson PrintCD, i started having problems printing to CDs.
Here is the basic recovery process that worked for me.
1) I deleted the EPSON folder in system / Library / Printers.
2) I used Apple's Software Update...; new epson software was found and installed.
3) I rebooted the computer.
4) Opened Epson PrintCD software and the file I wanted to print.
5) Inserted the printable DVD disk.
6) Opened the File menu and selected Page Setup (following instructions on page 68 of the User's Guide for the Epson printer).
7) There is only one selection for the [Format for:] option *EPSON Stylus Photo R800*. This is a change from the manual, at least my old manual.
8) The text under this option now reads *EPSON SP R800 (1)*.
9) Set the next option [ Paper Size: ] as US LETTER (manual feed). This is another change from the manual. There is a triangle to the right of US LETTER which allows the manual feed option.
10) Select [OK]
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Reefberry, you beauty! I just installed 10.5.6 and was not able to print CDs/DVDs using Epson Print CD on my Epson Stylus Photo R800 until I read your post. I did not have to delete the Epson Folder or any of that. My problem was I didn't realize under Page Setup, Paper Size, Letter there was the option for manual feed. Before your fix I could get Print CD to recognize the printer but when I tried to print the error message was out of paper or incorrect output tray. After changing to manual feed I am back in business (literally) again. Thank you!

Epson R220 DVD tray error - any ideas?

I have a Epson R220 for printing DVD labels, using the Epson Print CD software.
It worked for a while, but now the tray keeps ejecting with a message "CD/DVD tray not aligned". I'm careful to place the tray under the rollers, and align the marks.
The manual says clean the rollers by feeding sheets of paper....didn't help.
Any suggestions?

Maybe that's the same thing that your process accomplishes.
Sounds like a feeder issue on the printer and nothing to do with cleaning the print heads themselves (which the folded paper would help address in most cases).
Regardless ... Glad it's working ok for you now.

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Second, all BRD and HD/DVD players "upscales" 480i DVD (Stand Def) content to 1080i/p, which can be quite good. I've not been impressed with ATV's ability to upscale 640x480 content (iTune SD content) to large monitors. Also, SD DVDs are actually encoded at over 800x480 for widescreen content these days and bitrate is much higher than 1500 for iTune movies.
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Select a number of fields between one field and another

Hello,
Is there any way to make a SELECT to show a number of fields between one field and another,
without writting all the fields one by one ?
For example, I have one table with these fields:
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Sorry for my english it's not very good.

Swam wrote:
Hello,
Is there any way to make a SELECT to show a number of fields between one field and another,
without writting all the fields one by one ?
For example, I have one table with these fields:
TABLE EMPLOYEE:
ID_EMPLOYEE NAME PHONE CAR AGE MARRIED
and I just want to make a SELECT who shows only fields from NAME to AGE, but i don't want to
write in the SELECT all the fields one by one.
Is this possible?
Thank you very much.
Sorry for my english it's not very good.If you use the DBMS_SQL package to execute your query you can reference the columns by position rather than name.
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SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 DECLARE
2    cur       PLS_INTEGER := DBMS_SQL.OPEN_CURSOR;
3    cols      DBMS_SQL.DESC_TAB;
4    ncols     PLS_INTEGER;
5    v_min_col NUMBER := 2;
6    v_max_col NUMBER := 4;
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8    v_bindval VARCHAR2(4000);
9    v_ret     NUMBER;
10    d         NUMBER;
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13    DBMS_SQL.PARSE(cur, 'SELECT * FROM emp', DBMS_SQL.NATIVE);
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24    LOOP
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26      v_val := NULL;
27      EXIT WHEN v_ret = 0;
28      FOR colind in v_min_col..v_max_col
29      LOOP
30        DBMS_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(cur,colind,v_bindval);
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Portege R500 - Cannot find DVD playback and DVD writer software?

We've got some Portege R500 notebooks and putting our corporate image on them fine.
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Alignment problems printing direct to DVD with Epson R220

I know this question isn't specifically related to iDVD but I wondered if someone could help please?
I recently bought an Epson R220 printer to print direct to DVDs created with iDVD as I know labels stuck onto DVDs are best avoided.
However, using both the bundled Epson Print CD software and 'disclabel', I find the print is about 1cm off centre. I'm really surprised by this, as I thought these machines would just work out of the box - detecting through the software where the centre of the DVD is? I've tried everything to remedy this (including the position adjustment within Print CD which allows up to 5mm fine-tuning). The problem is I need more than fine tuning - the print is way off!
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Thanks Hardy - really appreciate the links to the Epson site. I've tried using the manual settings as you suggest, and I've certainly witnessed a vast improvement. Basically, it seems that if I alter the position adjustment slightly and then opt for a manual print, the disc is centred no problem. It isn't quite up to the edge of the disc - there's about a 2mm gap, using one of the templates from the Print CD app. Have you noticed this also - or does the image print right up tight against the edge of the disc?
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