[Ricky De laveaga]

Thanks to an kind email from John at Primary Purpose Recording when he found this thread 11 days ago, I have made the link to the old template active again, made a new Illustrator template with proper circular guides, and also added a new Photoshop template. All are linked from the new Print CD page on my site along with legacy versions, Print CD screenshots, some helpful tips, a link about circular guides in Illustrator, and a link to my favorite Prime Eligible printable discs on Amazon.

[Ricky De laveaga]

one thing I did find useful in print cd is under the file menu ‘Inner/Outer Diameter Settings’ (⌘M) lets you increase the printable area of the hub

[Ricky De laveaga]

well I ended up setting up a very simple psd after reading this thread and these two support pages from epson, and it worked very well.

it’s not fancy, I used the ‘Print Confirmation Pattern’ image from the first link (resized and cleaned up) as a ghost layer to be turned off or deleted before export as rgb jpeg for print cd per LowrySam’s advice.

I used the taiyo yuden watershield discs, some new surface that’s supposed to prevent smears. it definitely cut drying time down. I used the cd/dvd setting in the print cd print dialog, not the cd/dvd premium surface setting, they were dry in a few hours and have a semi-gloss-looking finish. I’m very happy with the results. I bought them from rima and though they cost twice as much as normal white inkjet dvd-r stock they are worth the extra 30 cents per disc. if anyone knows of a better deal on these I’m interested.

Robert, it seems to me the ‘EasyPrint Module’ that print cd requires to be installed actually has the cd tray driver bundled inside it and cannot be accessed through any other program. if I were you I would give up trying to print with ps and trying to resize in print cd. You can download the template I used here for the time being, with the caution that it’s nothing special and probably inferior to LowrySam’s template, but we don’t have a link to it yet, so I’ll post what I used since it worked for me. I would do the resizing in ps and just keep exporting jpegs and importing them into Print CD using insert->background->select background until you get it right.

[Ricky De laveaga]

yo LowrySam can I get the ps template for epson pcd? my site, rdela.com has an email link. thanks!