-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I want to distribute some CDs and DVDs. > > Please share your experiences and thoughts about labels for CDs. Should > I use screen printing? Avery-style inkjet stickers? Other CD > self-adhesive labels? > > I have found companies to do screen printing for around 60 to 70 cents > each (plus small charge for media). This seems like it will save time > versus manually printing and sticking on labels. Do you have any > suggestions of companies you have had good experience with? > > But then again I may end up with a lot of wasted CDs (which I could put > stickers on over later, I guess). > > I think around here I have some CD labeling device for lining up > stickers, but I have never used it. Any opinions or thoughts about these? > > For software, I could use glabels (which I have used for business cards) > or gimp plugins or kcdlabel or inkscape or other. Here are some links: > http://glabels.sourceforge.net/ > http://shallowsky.com/software/cdplugins/ > http://kcdlabel.sourceforge.net/ > http://www.inkscape.org/ (maybe there are some templates?) > > Any multi CD writers (so I can possibly burn a few CDs at a time) or DVD > burners you can suggest? What have you had good experience with under > Linux? > > I wonder if it would be cheaper to outsource the work? But then I > wouldn't have more control over my time and amount of CDs needed since I > could always print, burn and ship on demand if I do it myself. I have some experience for small things on personal projects. I just use the stick-on labels. We bought the "TDK CD/DVD Labeling System" mostly because we needed an alignment jig thing and this one came with 50 blank labels. glabels works well but I had to create a new template for this TDK kit. It may have matched a previously defined template but I could not tell with doing a bunch of test prints. Making a new template was not a big deal. Some people say the stickers are not good because of balance or spinning issues and that the adhesive degrades the media over time. That may be true but, what do I know. If it's not important enough for a "real label" I just use a sharpie marker, also a no-no. This spring my wife and I produced the memory DVD and memory photo CD for the high school band. 85 DVDs and 30 CDs. To produce these we used a service, http://www.starvideo.com (see Steve, steve@starvideo.com). They have competitive rates and very good service. They provided the media and printed TIFF images we supplied onto the disks. We also provided them a TIFF of the DVD cover which they printed. They look very nice! A significant per-disc price break kicks in at a quantity of 100, if you have that much to do. I think the band paid about 9.50 per DVD (burned DVD-R, color printed on DVD, black DVD case, color printed DVD cover). I don't remember the CD price but it was color printed on the CD with jewel cases. I don't know anything about high production burners. Mine is a "no name" DVD writer special from Fry's. Works fine. Alan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC5dnRDQw/VSQuFZYRAjpIAJ9lTGbCSs/Cn018OWTx/Og5IShfKACeNVTM 7Q5zDvQhI+80jfRvgwBIYbk= =+qbU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss