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May 11, 2017 at 8:58 am #7188
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I have completed converting VHS VCR to DVD. I thought to add some nicety I purchased these. Using Ashampoo Burning Studio 18 – Cover & Inlays – CD, I set this up.

Using an Epson Expression XP 235 printer I printed to the label.

Sadly it came out offset (now on the created DVD)

I expected it to print as the top picture showed, also ideally I didn’t want the big hole, just the small center hole.

Is it me, the labels, the software or the printer, why it turned out off set.
May 11, 2017 at 11:41 am #7194
Richard
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It is a long time since I printed anything like that, but if I remember there was an issue of matching the programme to the paper stock. Some programmes specified the paper to use and, I think some had settings that you could adjust. The centre hole was a feature of the paper.

Are you printing directly onto the CD/DVD, that is a feature I never used, I am not sure that any of the printers that passed my way. Once more there might be some explicit steps you need to take to ensure that things line up as you want them, do you have a manual, an online guide or Google to hand?
May 11, 2017 at 11:58 am #7195
Bob Williams
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I tried to find a manual for that printer JB, all I could find was a 2-page PDF which told me nothing. Neither is there anything in the Epson website about printing CD’s, nothing in the tech spec’s either. Is there a dedicated drawer for printing CD’s, which slides out and lets you install a CD with label? My 8 yo HP Photosmart C5380 has that, I can pull down the section marked “CD/DVD” and print directly onto a disc surface, or follow some more instructions and stick on a label, using a cutout.

Printing onto a disc surface means buying discs that will acept the proper option for this, using the HP software that came with the printer. I have not done this for about 3 years, as I don’t use CD’s and discs now, except for transferring to discs. Know it’s no help to you, but the HP has been fantastic for me, I don’t know what I will replace it with. HP don’t make anything else like it now.

I suggest you contact the Epson website and ask help. Don’t mention the source of the labels you have though: ask if Epson make them.

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May 11, 2017 at 6:57 pm #7212
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The prog that I have on my Epson 1400 Photo is ‘Epson Print CD’ which allows a fair degree of setting up etc. etc. Just wonder is if still to be had on the Epson website?

John

Just had a look at the Epson website – there is nothing to suggest that your printer is intended to print CDs. Normally ones that do, come with a small thin tray that holds the CD which you then insert into the front of the printer and using the supplied software it jiggles it a bit until the preset info you set up previously is achieved and then prints off. Once set up, it’s pretty accurate on printing but I don’t think this one is designed for that. In the ‘Contents of the box’ section on the Epson site there is no mention of a CD tray for any mention of printing CDs in the blurb either.

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May 11, 2017 at 8:06 pm #7216
Ed P
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The AShampoo Cover Studio apparently includes a printer set-up facility.

“You can “calibrate” your printout for your printer to align everything perfectly with your labels and other media. Ashampoo Cover Studio 2 automatically saves and reuses your calibration settings for every printer, paper format and paper orientation (portrait/landscape) you use. Just calibrate once, then forget about it. ”

Looks like a case of RTFM or search in the software Help pages.
May 11, 2017 at 9:22 pm #7223
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Thanks Richard – dwynnehugh – Bob for the investigations.

I haven’t noticed a drawer for CDs, it’s only a cheap printer, for cheap compatible inks.

I printed on the CD sticker, not directly on the CD

Thanks Ed
All I can find on Ashampoo just has Edit Paper Formats

(my printer is not in the list) and Diameter Disc.
May 12, 2017 at 8:57 am #7229
The Duke
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It’s not the best of ideas putting them stickers on cds. If they get warm in the drive they can begin to peal. This can be a bug issue if your cd drive is slot loaded, also they add weight to the disk so adds added wear on the drive.

Did anyone ever use lightscribe? U never even seen one of them cd drive burners? Did you need to add pigments of some sort? How did they work.
May 12, 2017 at 10:19 am #7232
Richard
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Lightscribe used a sort of double sided disk with a light, or more accurately laser sensitive surface on both sides. I cannot now remember if you had to turn the disk over or use a special double laser drive, but the laser recorded data tracks as per normal and then a laser in effect etched the label on the other side.

I agree with your concerns about labels, I did use them for a while but sometimes the glue did as you said, sometimes it did nasty things to the reflective layer on the topside of the disk causing the disk to be unreadable. While the track side was often looked after and people worried about scratches, it is the other side that was most likely to get damaged and make the disk unreadable. Labels and the wrong markers were very good at doing just that. Some would pull off the backing treatment, pretty but not useful.

Edit addendum;

The purpose of LightScribe is to allow users to create direct-to-disc labels (as opposed to stick-on labels), using their optical disc writer. Special discs and a compatible disc writer are required. Before or after burning data to the read-side of the disc, the user turns the disc over and inserts it with the label side down. The drive’s laser then etches into the label side in such a way that an image is produced.
May 12, 2017 at 10:29 am #7234
Anonymous
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I understand Duke, they are nicer looking though. I have some CDs with sticker labels, never seen the problem/s you mention, but then they haven’t been used much, I suppose constant use gets the heat from the source (CD/DVD player)

I tried to add my printer to the list in Ashampoo, it seemed to accept it, but printout was the same.

In the end I sorted it out with NCH softare, it allows you to move it about (showing you) with measurement of the paper, you can alter in mm and watch it move and you can then see where it’s going to land once printed.

Thanks all for the input. I would never get to the end without it.
May 12, 2017 at 2:19 pm #7240
Bob Williams
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Stirred my memories Richard, I remember Lightscribe, used it with the associated discs, turning them over as you describe. This is an old link from 2013 but gives good info:

https://tinyurl.com/l9fu866

This is a better link, which gives directions and specifications: https://tinyurl.com/lcaopq9

The first link states that Win 8 & 8.1 would not work with the software, but now even Win 10 and Blu ray are fine with it, providing your burner has the Lightscribe logo. I still have some CD’s and two DVD’s that were burned with Ls labels, just played them each and they are fine. Probably had many more once upon a time, but a lot of my discs have gone to charity. Time and Tech wait for no man! :yahoo:

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