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From: Tom on 6 Dec 2007 23:52 I'm looking for a program that will let me put a CD/DVD on my scanner, and then scan the disc label and print a copy onto a printable disc; all in one operation. I have a stack of old archive CDs with lousy handwriting on them and it's easier just to scan & print than it is to create new labels. Right now I have to go into my scanner program, preview, select, final scan, then go into the label printing program, import image, resize, align, and print. This gets rather tedious after a while. Is there any program that can automate this task? If it matters, my scanner is an HP Scanjet 4c and my printer is a Canon iP4000 with CD tray B and I'm using generic inkjet printable CDs. PS. Sorry for the crosspost, I'm hoping somebody in one of the three groups will have come across something like this.
From: DanG on 7 Dec 2007 00:02 "Tom" <tom8192(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Qj46j.1347$jq2.0(a)pd7urf1no... > I'm looking for a program that will let me put a CD/DVD on my scanner, and > then scan the disc label and print a copy onto a printable disc; all in > one > operation. > > I have a stack of old archive CDs with lousy handwriting on them and it's > easier just to scan & print than it is to create new labels. Right now I > have > to go into my scanner program, preview, select, final scan, then go into > the > label printing program, import image, resize, align, and print. This gets > rather tedious after a while. > > Is there any program that can automate this task? > > If it matters, my scanner is an HP Scanjet 4c and my printer is a Canon > iP4000 with CD tray B and I'm using generic inkjet printable CDs. > > PS. Sorry for the crosspost, I'm hoping somebody in one of the three > groups > will have come across something like this. 1st, never use "generic discs", you are running the risk of throwing your hard work away. 2nd, no there is no automated way to do this. The scanned image must be correctly cropped and aligned on the disc in CD-LabelPrint. Once you get it down, it's not a time-consuming task. I recommend scanning discs at 300 DPI, then cropping and re-sampling to 150 DPI in Photoshop. This step removes most of the moir� that occurs with scanning printed media. If the disc image is correctly cropped, you simply use it as a "background" in CD-LabelPrint and it's automatically aligned and sized.
From: Ken Maltby on 7 Dec 2007 08:41 "Tom" <tom8192(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Qj46j.1347$jq2.0(a)pd7urf1no... > I'm looking for a program that will let me put a CD/DVD on my scanner, and > then scan the disc label and print a copy onto a printable disc; all in > one > operation. > > I have a stack of old archive CDs with lousy handwriting on them and it's > easier just to scan & print than it is to create new labels. Right now I > have > to go into my scanner program, preview, select, final scan, then go into > the > label printing program, import image, resize, align, and print. This gets > rather tedious after a while. > > Is there any program that can automate this task? > > If it matters, my scanner is an HP Scanjet 4c and my printer is a Canon > iP4000 with CD tray B and I'm using generic inkjet printable CDs. > > PS. Sorry for the crosspost, I'm hoping somebody in one of the three > groups > will have come across something like this. I don't get it, why scan the old disk, at all? If they are really "old archive CDs with lousy handwriting on them" wouldn't it be easier (and provide a more legible result), to just type the label info into your CD printing program. For most such labeling, I find that there is a good deal of repeated information and/or formatting - so you should be able to have some "fill in the blanks" type prepared cd printing layouts. Luck; Ken
From: measekite on 7 Dec 2007 11:01 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font face="sans-serif">surething.com</font><br> <br> Tom wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:Qj46j.1347$jq2.0(a)pd7urf1no" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'm looking for a program that will let me put a CD/DVD on my scanner, and then scan the disc label and print a copy onto a printable disc; all in one operation. I have a stack of old archive CDs with lousy handwriting on them and it's easier just to scan & print than it is to create new labels. Right now I have to go into my scanner program, preview, select, final scan, then go into the label printing program, import image, resize, align, and print. This gets rather tedious after a while. Is there any program that can automate this task? If it matters, my scanner is an HP Scanjet 4c and my printer is a Canon iP4000 with CD tray B and I'm using generic inkjet printable CDs. PS. Sorry for the crosspost, I'm hoping somebody in one of the three groups will have come across something like this. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>
From: Telstar on 7 Dec 2007 23:46
"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:_vednRx_F-U60MTanZ2dnUVZ_qqgnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > > "Tom" <tom8192(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:Qj46j.1347$jq2.0(a)pd7urf1no... >> I'm looking for a program that will let me put a CD/DVD on my scanner, >> and >> then scan the disc label and print a copy onto a printable disc; all in >> one >> operation. >> >> I have a stack of old archive CDs with lousy handwriting on them and it's >> easier just to scan & print than it is to create new labels. Right now I >> have >> to go into my scanner program, preview, select, final scan, then go into >> the >> label printing program, import image, resize, align, and print. This gets >> rather tedious after a while. >> >> Is there any program that can automate this task? >> >> If it matters, my scanner is an HP Scanjet 4c and my printer is a Canon >> iP4000 with CD tray B and I'm using generic inkjet printable CDs. >> >> PS. Sorry for the crosspost, I'm hoping somebody in one of the three >> groups >> will have come across something like this. > > I don't get it, why scan the old disk, at all? > If they are really "old archive CDs with lousy > handwriting on them" wouldn't it be easier (and > provide a more legible result), to just type the > label info into your CD printing program. > > For most such labeling, I find that there is a good > deal of repeated information and/or formatting - so > you should be able to have some "fill in the blanks" > type prepared cd printing layouts. > > Luck; > Ken > > The OP is lying about his real intentions. |