What makes Dymo's Disc Painter totally unique is the radial printing technology, which drops ink on the surface of the CD or DVD like a child's SpinArt painting toy.  Other direct-to-disc printing technologies print across the disc in lines with a traditional inkjet technology, but the DYMO device lays down ink the way the laser reads tracks.

Did you ever wander what was going to happen down the road with those paper labels on the mix-CDs your friends and family gave you?  Speaking from experience, after a few years (or even just months) of varying heat and humidity, eventually the labels will begin to peel and fray, and soon enough, you'll be taking your car stereo in for an "upgrade."

While direct-to-disc inkjet printing has been available for a few years, what we haven't seen before is a small footprint solution, about the size of two stacks of CDs.

The DYMO DiscPrinter can print on any inkjet-printable disc, available at most office stores for under $20 for a stack of 50 writeable CDs.

This $279 retail printer is a bit pricey for most home users, but for bands, artists and even small businesses, this printer will create a professional looking CD or DVD for a fraction of what short-run commercial disc printing would cost.  The ink cartridges are can print about 100 discs for about $40, so the total cost for most CDs and DVDs would be about $1 each.