Casio Computer Co announced a new thermal copying printer with the codename "CD-R title printer CW-50", which will start selling from October 25th. The price would be 15,800 Yen ($135). The printer has 200dpi resolution and the interface is USB. It is possible that it will also work with DVD media (DVD-R/RW).

The ink ink ribbon cartridge has 4 colors (black, silver, blue) and the price of each ink would be around 700Yen ($6). The printing speed of the ink ribbon using only the black is 9.0mm/sec and with the other 3 colours 5.1mm/sec. Its dimensions are 180?187?57mm (width x depth x height) and the weight approximately 750g. The retail package includes, AC adapter, ink ribbon (black), CD-R media and WinCDR Trial Edition.