Hi all!,
before i say anything else i just need to point out that i have been searching pretty much all day for the following

CD LABELING SOFTWARE

and nothing! i found tonnes of apps for creating covers and inlays but ZERO for labels? i have 1000's of discs and i just purchased a new printer, so i want to get started labeling them (and no i dont wanna use a cd marker)

Please Please Please! does anyone know of anything that i could use?

Thanks

The Yikes

Can you give us the model and manufacturer of your CD label printer?

sorry angryfirelord,
i should really start to practice making myself clearer. i didnt purchase an actual cd printer i just purchased a colour laser printer. for what it's worth its a konika minolta colour laser. it's the 1st printer iv'e actually purchased, i had one before but it was 2nd hand. i saved for over 9 months!

thanks

The Yikes

Found this post here that should help.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ht=cd+labeling

Brian

Well brian1, i have to admit that i never even considered open office as a means of printing labels! i'm going to scoot off and have a look.

Thanks a million for replying.

Thanks

The Yikes

well have you heard of gLabels? I'm not sure if that's what you were looking for but if it is here is the link: http://glabels.sourceforge.net/

okay i'm now armed to the hilt with a plethora of labeling apps, now i have the problem of not being able to use custom paper sizes!

I'm printing on Boma labels the sheet id is BMS002-HI and the dimensions are 138mmX270mm.

can i set custom paper sizes or is that something thats only available in commercial apps?

Thanks

The Yikes

as far as i can remember, gLabels support custom paper size. Have you tried using gLabels?

i cant run glabels here's what happens!

i'm using kde not gnome! i'm lost !?!

Thanks

The Yikes

lolz... that is because glabels is for gnome. I didn't know that you were using KDE. Im sorry.

Woohoo!
Finally i got it to work! i created a template in open office set the page margins to line up with the edge of the round sticker and bingo bango!

Thanks a million everyone! at least iv'e learned some new things so it wasnt a lost cause after all!

Thanks

The Yikes

I never tried openoffice myself but glad to know it works well.
Have fun.

Brian

Just to expand a bit on creating CD labels in OO.org. Use OO Draw to lay out the label creating a layer for the text and separate layer for the circular guidelines. Print a couple samples to see that the text and graphics are where you want them. If not, you can easily tweak the position with the arrow keys (change the grid spacing under preferences if you need to) and then set the guide layer to non-printing, locked (double click on the layer tab) when you're done.

Epson has a helpful PDF www.epsondevelopers.com/documents/CDDVDTemplate.pdf with dimensions that can be easily adapted to your needs.

You can do labels in any vector art program like Inkscape, for example. Even GIMP would work, but it won't he as easy to tweak the layout. Basically all you are doing is printing a letter or A4 sheet (depending on the size of the CD carrier your printer uses) with the text and graphics centered above the CD blank. A little trial and error testing will give you a perfect template. At PLUG we print CDs for the monthly InstallFest with a layer for the PLUG graphics and a separate layer for the distro name and disk number. Turning layers on and off (making them printing or non-printing) lets us use one template for multiple purposes.

Dennisk