Printer calibration problems for DVD labels

joe0499 2012-12-13 09:31:53 UTC #1

I am having printer problems in lining on the disk printing paper. I have just purchased additional Avery software thinking the Memorex software program must have got corrupted or something. When you print the calibration page and fold on as directed the scale is not even close not matter what software I use. The memorex program used to work perfect. I now believe it may be a printer problem. I have a HP Photosmart 8250. The printer prints all other printer material fine. The calibration for the various label sofware states settings value must be between -40 & +40 . The scale is not even close to center of the page to fall into this category. I would estimate the number needed would be like -80 to center. Any Help would be apprieciated.. Evidently something has changed being I used this many times before this problem arose.

coolcolors 2012-12-14 05:50:33 UTC #2

[QUOTE=joe0499;2668776]I am having printer problems in lining on the disk printing paper. I have just purchased additional Avery software thinking the Memorex software program must have got corrupted or something. When you print the calibration page and fold on as directed the scale is not even close not matter what software I use. The memorex program used to work perfect. I now believe it may be a printer problem. I have a HP Photosmart 8250. The printer prints all other printer material fine. The calibration for the various label sofware states settings value must be between -40 & +40 . The scale is not even close to center of the page to fall into this category. I would estimate the number needed would be like -80 to center. Any Help would be apprieciated… Evidently something has changed being I used this many times before this problem arose.[/QUOTE]

One highly good advice “Don’t use stick on labels for CD/DVD as they will peel off and ruin the media itself”. Rather you should use those with the printable media DVD and stick with that if you want to print onto the DVD media. And what kinda Memorex software are you talking about? You have to be more specific on the software and version and where you got it so others reading have a better understanding where your coming from and how to address the problem and also what O/S and how your connected to the printer. And a picture of the actual print will help alot for others to see what your talking about.

G_Ivan_Awfulitch 2012-12-14 05:59:18 UTC #3

If it is what I think, when you buy a pack (around 250 sheets) of Memorex labels you get the free CD for your printer so that it will align your printing on the two peel off lablels and maybe a back strap peel off for your DVD case.

ChristineBCW 2012-12-14 09:12:39 UTC #4

Joe, I’ll always vote in the “don’t use glue-on labels” camp. “Bad Printer Alignment” is a blessing in disguise.

Of course, there aren’t too many printers that do direct-on-disk printing anymore - Epson being the main source (their Artisan series is excellent, and their newly delivered Expression PREMIUMs provide identically good mechanics. The Expressions also have a [B][I]HOME series that do not offer[/I][/B] disk-printing).

Every month or 6-weeks, the Epson Store Specials or Clearance have Artisans or Expression Premium 600s in the $99 range. The Artisans are being phased out and the 700 series might be offered in the $70 range, as well - those are my favorites.

TWO BIG REASONS TO AVOID GLUE-ON LABELS…

[B]ONE,[/B] even if the glue-on attachment process is perfect (each and every time? Never off center? Never a ripple or bubble? Yeah… riiiight - been there, tried that), the glues WILL age and WILL create bubbles all their own. And nothing stops this change in chemistry over time. Even if steamroller’d on, the glues will still age, give off gases and eventually create a bubble. By that time, now that extra layer of thickness is extra-extra thick, preventing smooth playing - or perhaps any spinning at all. If that bubble is torn inside the disk-player, then there’s a chance the drive-itself is now injured permanently.

[B]TWO…[/B] the expense. A Plain Disk plus the Glue-On Label is more expensive than highest quality InkJet Printable Disk alone. Why spend any money (much less more) on a Glue-On that will fail eventually?

Of course, WHAT TO DO WITH THE HP PRINTER is a big question. I run both. I have plain-paper needs that the HP never fails to complete.

I have used the Memorex software but can’t offer guesses on printer alignment issues. I like this software because it offers one wonderful graphics-editing feature - the ability to deform a picture by grabbing different corner-points, allowing deformations to exist on all axes, instead of just Horizontal or just Vertical.

Nero is offering a free label-maker package, by the way, which I haven’t tried even though I’ve had the pay-for version for years. I tend to use the $20 Surething product, or CorelDraw.

I wish they’d adopt Memorex’s excellent little Deform feature, though. (Fortunately, I can start up Memorex, do the Deform to my heart’s content, COPY to Clipboard Memory and PASTE the now-deformed image into my other labeling products.)

bunyan69 2012-12-18 16:00:18 UTC #5

great advice. thanks