Help: CD label creating

Subject: CD label creating
From: pattyClink
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 04:33 PM

Help, oh power of the Mudcat! Help, oh kind guru, wherever you are!

I have scanned my eyes out trying to get a family photo archive done by you-know-when. Now disaster has struck.

I am using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4, which has a utility for printing labels. I have no problem setting up a nice round label, and I have selected a Avery label format with 2 labels per page. When I print, I clearly see a little format with 2 labels, but only one is highlighted, and of course it prints only one. Have pulled my hair out trying to get it to put two on a page. Cut'n'paste doesn't work, etc.

Anybody out there use this utility a lot and know how to appease it?

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 04:52 PM

I didn't use Easy CD creator for my CD labels, although I have the software (3.5). But my CD Stomper software sounds similar. I had to create two complete labels, one in each template, although I was able to use some features to duplicate and paste parts of it - through trial and error. You should be able to go to FILE and PRINT PREVIEW to see exactly what will print before you waste any of the forms.

Sometimes the software asks what format you want, and you have to tell it 2-up or a form number such as the Avery number. Make sure you're using the correct format.

Sorry I can't be any help except to express sympathy, having fought with my own CD labels long and hard before I got it to work on the CD Stomper forms! Good luck. My posting will at least keep the thread alive.

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: MMario
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 04:55 PM

According to the help instructions I found - you don't. to make two labels you feed the paper through twice - one in each direction and print twice.

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: Maryrrf
Date: 17 Dec 01 - 05:00 PM

I use the same program and as far as I can determine, MMario is right. You have to put the paper through twice. It's a pain but I haven't found any way around it.

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: pattyClink
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 10:27 AM

THANKS!! Forget Three Tenors, we have Three Gurus.

I never woulda guessed. Seems like risking goo-ups to run label stock thru a hot printer twice, but I'll give it a whack and let them cool between runs.

Thanks to Barbara, MMario, Maryrrf. You all have made the day of a tired, sick, Christmas elf.

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 10:40 AM

Yep - run it through twice - once each way as MMario says!!

Steve

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 03:24 PM

Well, after hearing what you have to go through with Easy CD Creator, let me recommend CD Stomper. Here's a link to their website: CD Stomper.

I've used this for the labels for our band's CD, gotten refills at OfficeMax (50 for $9.99) and been completely happy with the product. The gadget that comes with it makes it easy to get the label perfectly centered on the CD. It also gives you templates to do the labels in other formats such as WORD, Illustrator, etc. And you can print two at a time!

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: M.Ted
Date: 18 Dec 01 - 03:35 PM

I just bought a package of these labels, and, except for the fact that I am procrastinating, would have been wresting with this very issue right now! It does help to check the forum every day!

Can anyone tell me why the labels cost more than the CD's that you put em on?

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 12:20 AM

After a few instances of labels coming apart inside my laserjet, I have adopted the policy of never running a sheet through it after a label has been removed. It's cheaper in the long run to throw the left-overs away. Inkjets and -if you have anything that old - impact printers are a little more tolerant.

When we started setting up to print our first labels, my S.O. grabbed the "label" program and started trying to figure out how to get a label to print. I opened a new sheet in Word, inserted 8 text boxes, guessed a location, and printed them on a plain A size sheet. Overlaying the label blank (2 labels per), it was easy enough to adjust the location and size of the t-boxes, and I was printing labels before she finished loading the software.

There is nothing "magic" about the Avery templates - and in fact I've found them more annoying than helpful.

Don't be afraid to make your own layout - and save it as a .dot template. It's the easy way in the long run.

John

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 06:49 AM

"Can anyone tell me why the labels cost more than the CD's that you put em on?"

That is the annoying thing. Has anyone found a viable cheaper alternative? (Aside from just writing on the CDs with the right kind of pen) It should be possible just to print on plain paper and slap some kind of glue on, but I'd be nervous of knowing what sort and so forth, because of maybe messing up the CD or the CD recorder or player.

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: Justa Picker
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 08:30 AM

What Barbara said. (I use "Stomper" as well. No problems.)

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: Maryrrf
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 09:28 AM

Yes, it is annoying that the labels are so expensive. If anybody has any suggestions I'd certainly be interested!

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 10:23 AM

Those Avery labels are quite expensive. I remember looking at them and marveling. Again, (no, I have no stock in the company), consider CD Stomper. The labels at 50 for $10 work out to 20 cents apiece. The blank CD's I buy are 50 for $25, which works out to 50 cents apiece. Sometimes the CD's are buy one/get one free, which brings the price down to 25 cents apiece. In either case, the labels cost less than the CD's.

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: Bert
Date: 19 Dec 01 - 11:10 AM

Save the label in a file and bring it up in Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro or even Paint and copy and paste it (Ctrl C, Ctrl V).

If your software won't let you save it, use Ctrl Print Screen to save it into the copy buffer.

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Dec 01 - 07:38 AM

I was looking through the shelf at the shop, and CD Stomper looked like it might be the best bet. But it still works out pretty pricy for paper with a bit of adhesive.

Has anyone found an alternative that makes it possible just to use plain paper? Suitable for scrimpers and skinflints and the impecunious.

Subject: RE: Help: CD label creating
From: Fiolar
Date: 20 Dec 01 - 08:28 AM

I use CD Box Labeller Pro for the jewel case inserts and Surething CD Labeller Deluxe for the CD labels. I have found them both excellent and have in the past year done almost 500 CDs have no complaints. Regarding the cost of disks, I usually buy mine at Computer Fairs which are held every month and find them a snip compared to High Street prices.