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I`ve just bought one of these printers because according to the blurb you can print directly on to printable DVDs or CDs with them. In practice you can`t. Or at least I can`t. I`ve tried a couple of dozen times to get a disc to print, but all it does is spit the tray back out at me after grinding away at the leading edge for about thirty seconds. It prints nicely when given conventional paper through the rear media hopper, but it just doesn`t want to know the CD tray.

I`ve checked around a number of sites and there does seem to be an issue about the loading tray eventually losing the ability for the platen to catch hold of it, but nobody has mentioned the printer simply refusing to load the tray from day one.

When I load the tray in, the leading edge which has a clear plastic strip intended to get caught between the platen roller and the pinch rollers, simply jams up against the pinch rollers and refuses to be drawn further. The plastic is now heavily scratched by the friction. I`m waiting to hear what Epson have to say about the matter but as their support website doesn`t mention the loading tray at all and the online help and electronic manual are similarly unhelpful I`m not very hopeful. >:(

J Mark Oates

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I`ve printed dozens of discs on my R300 with no problems. Sounds like you`ve got a duffer there - I`d return it.

yup, get it swapped out, i`ve literally done hundreds with mine, never had a problem, a friend of mines done around a thousand with probs :)

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general nobody @ www.dvdreviewer.co.ukformerly known as theogster

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I got the R300 a couple of weeks ago and I reckon it`s the dogs bo**ocks. Prints all media that I have tried so far, paper, photos and CD`s/DVD`s. To date I`ve never had a problem and the quality is superb :)

Sam.

Also got the R300 - fantastic and have had no problems. Get rid or swap it and get the R300

Badboybez

In Madness You Dwell

Also got the R300 - fantastic and have had no problems. Get rid or swap it and get the R300

tbh the r200/r300 are the same printer apart from the card reader built into the r300, so that shouldn`t be the issue, i reckon you got either a dodgy printer (damaged/dropped etc) or a faulty cd/dvd tray, as, if there is a week link with these models then that tray is definitely it :( but as the testimonials above state, generally speaking it is a brilliant printer, certainly the best epson i`ve ever had & easily on a par with the hp`s i`ve owned (carts are far to expensive for the hp`s)

oh, & don`t pay more than £8.99p for a full set of carts for the r300/r200 ;)

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general nobody @ www.dvdreviewer.co.ukformerly known as theogster

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This item was edited on Sunday, 6th February 2005, 22:32

I just got the Canon PIXMA iP5000, not tried the CD-R/DVD-R printing yet, as I have no printable discs.

Although the quality of photos produced is without a doubt the best I've seen.

Cheers

This item was edited on Sunday, 6th February 2005, 22:40

ive had 3 r200 printers the cd/dvd loading traynot the best design going sometimes you have to help the tray on its way in and sometimes on its way out epson informed me to remove the clear plastic edge off the end of the tray which i have done with better results but apart from that not a bad printer and yes the r300 is the same tray system as the r200 ive been getting mine from argos ill take it back again before the garuntee runs out and get it replaced again :o

This item was edited on Monday, 7th February 2005, 08:08

I recently bought a Canon Pixma IP4000 and it`s fantastic. I` was stunned with the photo quality and extremely pleased with it`s cd/dvd printing abilities. Heartily recommended!

Nick


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ive had 3 r200 printers the cd/dvd loading traynot the best design going sometimes you have to help the tray on its way in and sometimes on its way out epson informed me to remove the clear plastic edge off the end of the tray which i have done with better results but apart from that not a bad printer and yes the r300 is the same tray system as the r200 ive been getting mine from argos ill take it back again before the garuntee runs out and get it replaced again

I`ve read on other threads that Epson will send you a new CD tray for free if you phone them and say your current one`s not working.