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The good news.... OK it prints on white paper, and if you set it to its highest quality (slowest printing) it will turn out pretty decent photos. And on the off chance that you are able to load the CD/DVD tray into it exactly the way it wants, it will print on CD's relatively well. Now for the real review of this printer: Text is abysmal, even on its best setting. I have a Canon i860, which in every way (text and graphics/photos) blows the doors off this Epson. Printing CD's which really is the ONLY actual reason anyone would buy this over ANY Canon, is a chore at best. You must print them one at time (choosing more than 1 copy craps out the tray alignment for the next copy, which brings on the error message) and it takes a REALLY LONG TIME. Don't get me wrong, the quality in "Best Photo" on CD's is pretty great.... but the hassle with the tray never being happy and the S L O W print speed is just not worth it. WAAAAAAAAYY better results are achieved using the Avery Afterburner kit and printing labels with ANY Canon printer. I had an Epson several years ago, and upon buying Canon, will never go back to Epson. The quality difference is measured in light years. But alas Canon has no CD printer in the U.S., only Europe. So if you're contemplating this as your primary printer, and just every once in a while will print to CD's... move on to another brand that is actually capable of printing clean black text. If you just need a printer to print 2 or 3 CD's a week, this will suffice. Editing addendum... 8/04... I have noticed that nearly without exception, people vote that a reveiw was "helpful" if it is either 4 or 5 stars and it is an item for which the reader has mostly decided upon buying. The "not helpful" votes are almost always given by someone who is discouraged that any given product they want has been given a negative review. So I offer this addendum to my original review: Many of the positives tendered about the R200 printer are from people who have not actually used it very long and have certainly not made much/any use of the direct CD printing or text. So while you may have your heart set on this printer, and are somehow personally hurt by my review after my 60 days of real-world use, I say to you, buyer beware, and remember this review after you buy the R200 anyway against good advice.