On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:21 -0500, Peter Arremann wrote:
Guys,
I've been trying to track down both software and hardware to print nice looking CD labels directly onto the medium using Linux. A friend of mine is running a Epson R340 with the bundled windows software and it looks really great - much better than the paper labels most people use.
The hardware side is the first dead end. The printer needs to double as a regular letter sized desktop printer. Unfortunately the R[23]x0 printers are all only partially supported according to everything I read on linuxprinting.org and others. HP doesn't seem to make a model that does cd printing. Neither does canon.
The software is the second issue. GLabel looks good but how will it play together with the printer? I guess I'd then go through the template designer and then its trial and error from there... ?
software - try gutenprint, it supports the r200 and r300 so it also may support the r340 for printing to CD I have an R300 and the CD printing works flawlessly using the gutenprint drivers. sourceforge.net/projects/gutenprint/
You have to set up the driver with cups web interface. then select the 5 inch print to CD format.
An additional benefit is the drivers are much better than the ones available within the Fedora Distro for all I have tried.
I did some magic with OOO and created my own template for the labels and that was easy to do with a custom paper size of 5x5.
Any help is appreciated,
Peter.