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Rob Beard wrote: >Hi folks, > >I'm pretty certain I've read on the list before that a couple of you >guys and gals have got Epson Stylus Photo R200 (or even the R300) printers? > >I've recently migrated over to Ubuntu Breezy (AMD64). Everything is >going well this time, I can run some of my old Windows programs under >Wine, I can get my e-mails and with that VMWare Player I can still use >my MiniDisc (well I'm assuming I can, I haven't actually tried it yet :-D) > >Now one problem I'm having is printing CDs and DVDs. As you may or may >not know, the Epson printers come with a program called Print CD. It's >a fairly easy to use program which allows printing of covers (including >inserting scanned covers). I did a bit of searching on Google and found >that someone managed to get CD printing working with GuttenPrint 5.0 and >Gimp 2.x using the CD Cover template. > >Okay, so I've installed Guttenprint 5.0 RC1 which compiles nicely under >Ubuntu. I've installed the printer and found there is an option for >printing to CD. So far so good. > >When it came to creating the label in Gimp I started having problems. I >opened Gimp and managed to import the cover. Being a bit of a newbie to >Gimp, I can't seem to make the cover bigger. It will print although it >won't fill the disc, it just prints very small! > >I've tried a couple of different applications in hope that it would work >(OpenOffice 2.0 & 1.1.5, AbiWord, Scribus etc) but none of these >programs seem to come up with the entire cups configuration options for >the printer (so I can't select print to CD, or the quality etc). > >Has anyone else successfully managed to print to a CD under Linux? > >Rob > > > > Okay, after a bit more playing, I've managed to create something in scribus which is about the right size, the only problem being that it only prints a fraction of the label. I'm guessing that I need to position the image on the paper better. Can't find anything to tell me how to get the position right. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html