For years getting a decent looking full color label for your freshly burned CD or DVD meant having to use a specially equipped inkjet printer or printing on a full size adhesive CD label and stamping it down onto your disc. Back in 2005 LightScribe was invented, allowing users to burn greyscale labels onto their discs but the results are very slow and less than ideal (and obviously not in color). Today however, a new home based method for inking your own custom CD's is available from the company that has been stomping out CD labels for years, Dymo.
About the size of a small toaster, the Dymo DiscPainter prints full color labels directly onto the top of your blank CD's (special ink jet printable CD blanks are required). At its lower resolution the process takes barely a minute, far superior to the 20 minutes plus that some LightScribe burners can take. Reports say that the included ink cartridge will print around 100 CD's.