Whn I print out photographs on my trusty (now repaired) Epson 925 photo printer, they look like the real thing. I have been using special self adhesive CD labels now for many years to produce my own audio CD's and am delighted with the results. It is essential to acquire a centering tool to apply these labels correctly, and the one I use looks like a plastic toadstool. The "stalk" pops through the hole in the CD/DVD and the label is then centered by passing it over the "head" over which it just fits.
Appropriately designed labels incorporating photographs usually printed on glossy photo paper are then added to the jewel/DVD case as appropriate. All you need for this is some label desiging software of which there is loads about - but for this I use an ancient version of CorelDraw.
Professionally, images are applied to CD/DVDs by silk screening which is nice and cheap if you want large quantities (1000 up). There are also available CD/DVDs with a printable top surface. There are also printers available in to which you can put such a CD/DVD for printing. You may care to investigate these.
P.P.
Last edited by P.Pilcher; 9th July 2008 at 15:26.