How to Print CD Label

From: Jerome H. Fine <jhfinepw4z_at_compsys.to>
Date: Thu Jul 25 08:18:01 2002

>Chris wrote:

> >which holds the actual sticky labels. While the offset is only about 1/4",
> >that distance is quite noticeable. But when I attempt to use the Avery
> >program, there does not seem to be anything I can do to shift the labels.
> >Can anyone suggest anything from their experience? This is using
> >Windows 98 SE where I am a dummy!!
> If you are using the actual Avery LabelPro software, there is a printer
> nudge feature (at least on the Mac, I don't really use the PC version
> often so I'm not 100% sure on that, but I would think it is there too).
> With the printer nudge, you can tell it to offset the image in incriments
> (1/100th of an inch IIRC). That offset will let you move it up/down or
> left right.

Jerome Fine replies:

It does not seem as if the feature is there on the Windows 98 SE version.
There is no icon that I have discovered that refers to "nudge". There are
some alignment icons, but I have not, as yet, discovered how to activate
them.

> I have found that the Avery LablePro software doesn't seem to print the
> very bottom of the image on my DeskJet 855. It drops about the last 1/4"
> of the image (not offset, but rather just missing). It seems to be just
> that printer that it happens with, and I'm not 100% positive that it
> isn't the printer doing it (read: I haven't really tried it with other
> software to see if everything is just missing at that point, but nothing
> else has popped out at me). With my laser printers, the images always
> print correctly (so my color CD backgrounds I just used a striped image
> so you can't tell the bottom is cut off, rather it just looks like part
> of the image design)

In my case, I probably have about 1/2" at the top and bottom of leeway
between the printed area and the edge of the form. The actual label
that is ready to be lifted from the page - wasting all the rest of the page
of course since that is the only economical way the manufacture the
sheets which contain 2 labels on the standard 8 1/2" by 11" pages -
is in the middle of the sheet and each start 9/16" below the top and 3/4"
above the bottom with about 3/8" between the 2 labels. Since each
label is 4 5/8" in diameter, the total is 10 15/16, so each of those
measurements must be slightly low - or my eyes can't see well enough.

In any case, the problem is NOT with the printer, but with my lack
of being able to understand the Avery label program in that I can't
figure out how to paste the scanned information to a slightly different
location relative to the template location of the labels that Avery
provides. Any ideas??????????????

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
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