CD printing program recommendation

[rosenmarsh]

Hi everyone
I have Epson Stylus R200 CD printer which came with associated Epson
Print CD program. The biggest problem I find with it is printing track
titles so that they fit around the CD in a regular way. I cannot get
the effect of getting track titles to follow circular inner edge of CD.
The only way I get near this is formatting each title seperately in a
text box. This is very time consuming and still looks uneven. If I
format track titles together, they come out as a block and invariably
there are one or two that "disappear" into the inner hole area. Any
recommendations? - preferably free downloads

 

[measekite]

I believe that SureThing software now supports the Epson R2/300 series
of printers and they can accomplish this and much more.

www.surething.com

 

[John H.]

I have the r200 and you have to do it 0ne title at a time

 

[rosenmarsh]

Yes that is how I do it but really time consuming and still can look
uneven. I have seen printed CDs where tracks follow edge of CD in a
formatted block and they look so much better.

 

[rosenmarsh]

thanks for this. I had trouble accessing www.surething.com. It is
manufactured by Nova Delevopment. But surething was not shown in their
website shop. I am in the UK - where would you recommend finding the
product and ascertaining that it supports epson r200 and windows XP?

 

[measekite]

thanks for this. I had trouble accessing www.surething.com.

I just clicked the link and it worked fine.

 

[Colon Terminus]

I have the same printer and find that the software that comes with the
hardware is just too basic. Personally, I use the Corel Draw! suite to
design my labels. There are many alternatives, most of 'em better than the
software provided with the printer. Corel Draw!, which I use and Adobe
Photoshop, both of which are quite pricey. There's Paint Shop Pro which does
an excellent job and is much less expensive than either Corel or Adobe. Then
there's Gimp for Windows, a graphics manipulation probram that has all the
power of the expensive suites and is absolutely free to download and use. Be
aware that there is a serious learing curve to all these alternatives.

The bottom line is this: Don't use the software that came with your printer
to design your labels ... it is too weak. Design your labels in some other
software suite and import them as backgrounds into the Epson printCD
program.

 

[rosenmarsh]

I have the same printer and find that the software that comes with the
hardware is just too basic. Personally, I use the Corel Draw! suite to
design my labels. There are many alternatives, most of 'em better than the
software provided with the printer. Corel Draw!, which I use and Adobe
Photoshop, both of which are quite pricey. There's Paint Shop Pro which does
an excellent job and is much less expensive than either Corel or Adobe. Then
there's Gimp for Windows, a graphics manipulation probram that has all the
power of the expensive suites and is absolutely free to download and use. Be
aware that there is a serious learing curve to all these alternatives.

The bottom line is this: Don't use the software that came with your printer
to design your labels ... it is too weak. Design your labels in some other
software suite and import them as backgrounds into the Epson printCD
program.


Thanks for this - I will try it out as it free. My main concern is to

get track titles following edge of CD so hopefully Gimp can do this!

 

[Colon Terminus]

get track titles following edge of CD so hopefully Gimp can do this!

Oh, Gimp can do this.
Try spiralling (?sp) the track titles from the outer edge in toward the
center.
Looks pretty cool, especially with an interesting background.

 

[JohnQPublic]

I use Acoustica CD/DVD label maker. I've tried just about everyone and keep
going back to Acoustica. Does everything you could want
http://www.acoustica.com/ for a trial version. And it does support the
r200/300