Although all of my testing is done on my Canon Pixma IP5000 this tutorial applies to several Canon printers with CD/DVD printing abilities.

The original StevesForums post is now 77+ pages, so weeding through it to find what works and what doesn't work could possibly take 4-5 years. The reason I have this tutorial is to give what I have learned in a straight-forward how-to.

Credit: The initial idea was found on StevesForums. Or you could buy one on ebay for about $20. This tutorial describes how to make a cd tray for little or no money. Oh yeah, and obtain the Disk tray that obviously didn't come standard to us, as they did in Europe. Notice I said 'disabled.' Because the printers still have the feature all we need to do is enable it. European models have this feature already enabled but unfortunately for us Americans it has been disabled due to Canon not wanting to pay for the licensing to use the technology in North America. This tutorial describes how to use your Canon Pixma IPxxxx printer to print directly on printable CDs/DVDs.

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