On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 00:21:51 -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... ?
Any help is appreciated,
Peter.
Well, the Canon Pixma Series printers support the direct printing to CD's. I
have the Canon Pixma 5000, and teamed up with Turboprint it will print to the
CD's ok. All I still have to do is to get the print alignment corrected and it
will be fine.. I haven't tried it with Glabels yet, as that may be another
alternate, way of printing..
Wolf
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