Hello and welcome to the forum! I own the same printer and have printed directly to the optical disc surface (of course, you need to buy 'printable' discs - not that more expensive). Second, Canon offers a free program called My Image Garden (click on 'software') - kind of clunky but works once you've done a few discs - here's a YouTube video showing the process - the user manual has plenty of written instructions. Now there is likely other software (probably more user friendly?) that can do the same but I have no other recommendations. Let us know your results - I'm sure others will be interested. Dave
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