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If you want to have images on discs, please note to NEVER USE LABELS on a disc. Get inkjet media and use inkjet printers. Personally, I see no such need to label a disc, aside from neat handwriting with a Sharpie marker. A person only looks at a disc for 30 seconds maximum (usually much less, if at all). Effort is better placed on DVD menus (clean quality imagery, helpful navigation, adhere to design rules, understand video issues like overscan area and the need to tuck and bleed on-screen menu content). Next comes a DVD case. People usually choose to read/view DVD cases, and they are pretty much required to read/view a DVD menu. The effort and costs of disc imagery is mostly a waste, unless you're replicating thousands of discs as a business item. I do design artwork for replication, but never small runs of burns.
Duplicators are to copy discs. If I had one, I'd burn a master on an archival-grade disc (some PVC media, or some Taiyo Yuden media), then let it copy to duplication-grade discs (Ritek, Prodisc -- though I often go for higher grade media like Mitsubishi or Sony).
I'm a content producer, I rarely have need to rip other's DVDs, aside from minor re-editing or re-authoring. Those almost always come from customers that were unhappy with their previous service (somebody else did a tacky quality job on their discs).
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