![]() ![]() ![]() It is both the most capable and the most expensive of the three direct disc printers here, with the ability to put gorgeous, full-color labels onto hundreds of discs at a sitting. Primera is best known for its production duplicators (burner plus printer), but they also offer the Bravo II model (PCs or Mac) for simply printing directly onto a disc. After you are done reading check out the great range of Verbatim printable CD and DVD media for each of these solutions. Several printer brands – notably Primera, Epson and Casio – offer specialized printers that print right on a disc and don’t use paper. Since Verbatim helped develop the process, you can count on us to offer Lightscribe media for use with those drives. The HP Lightscribe drive cleverly changes the way the burner drives the laser to let it create a silkscreen-quality image on the “flip” (label) side of special, compatible discs. HP (in cooperation with Mitsubishi Chemical, Verbatim’s parent company) debuted a neat product early in 2004 (headed for stores by the end of 2004) with a bright way of getting a label to appear from inside the drive that burns the disc. ![]() A wrinkled or off-center label on a disc spinning at high speeds could make it wobble causing playback trouble. Should you? With our system, you don’t touch the sticky part of the label, you can’t get centering wrong and the label goes down without a wrinkle. (OK, that’s obvious, but please don’t yawn).Īnd certainly there are many products out there that let you print something on your inkjet printer and stick it onto a disc.Īnd of course, of all those products, we like our Verbatim’s own Verbatim Touch-Less Labeling system best. Overall these days, we find that people who have the gear to burn CDs also tend to have color ink jet printers. As your grade school teacher may have advised (ours did), when you can’t write neatly, print. The next time you shop for blanks discs (it’s too late for the discs already in that basket), you might want to choose among the Verbatim products with a white area on the label side that makes any printing you do easier to read.įor some of us, alas, who can’t read our own writing, writing isn’t much help. Writing with a crayon can let wax transfer to the drive’s head or mechanism, leaving your disc just fine but your drive useless. Writing with a ballpoint or pencil can create enough pressure to damage the layer the laser has to scan, making it unreadable. Sharpie markets a range of markers they offer specifically for use with CD/DVD media, so we’re naming them.ĭon’t use a ballpoint pen. ![]() Sanford (the makers of Sharpie) tells us that some marker inks can eat into the plastic and may make a disc troublesome, even useless. Other markers may also work fine, but some may not. And yes, you can ruin the disc and maybe the drive when you do that – here’s how to make it work. If only you thought of this before! Yes, you can write directly on the disc. So how do you label a disc anyway? There are some good answers, some bad answers and some gorgeous answers, many of them right here. These collections grow every time we toss a new disc there, after we burn it but before we get around to labeling it. Some of us have just a few some of us have stacks or mounds or boxes or baskets of them. This tool will free up hours spent with graphic design software trying to make a simple label.We all have discs we haven’t yet labeled. It requires Pentium II 900, 128 Mb RAM, 10 Mb of hard space and a regular or CD label printer. RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker has amazing skins and runs on most common Windows operating systems. ), label stock papers (Avery, PressIt, Neato. RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker supports round CD and DVD labels, CD front, CD front double, CD back case inserts, DVD, slim DVD covers, paper sleeves (CD envelopes), folded paper cases (origami CDs), standard paper formats (A5, A4, A3. The last step is to adhere the label to the disc with the help of a CD labeler. You then define the printer and paper settings and print using label stock paper and a standard printer or CD label printer. You start by selecting one of the predesigned label templates, writing a title and description and maybe loading a picture or writing a track-list. Its wizard-like interface allows you to make disc labels with just a few clicks. RonyaSoft CD DVD Label Maker is an easy-to-use software tool for making disc labels and covers for your mp3 or video collections, photo archives and backups. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |