[ddots-l] Re: Slightly OT CD labeler for the blind
- From: "David Simpson" <d.l.simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:12:37 -0500
Your proposal to use Avery and to charge $25 sounds good to me. I haven't
found anything blind-friendly when it comes to printing CD labels.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Kent
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:34 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Slightly OT CD labeler for the blind
George:
How do you deal with laying out the format of your CD label? I have a hard
time imagining the appearance of a round label in the rectangular world that we
live in with screen reading software.
Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: George Bell
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:59 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Slightly OT CD labeler for the blind
Hi Joey,
May I make a suggestion here? Before you go into serious development, try
and take a look at the Epson Print CD program. This prints directly on to
"printable" CDs, and thus eliminates the need to apply those Avery type sticky
labels to a CD, which in turn can so often put a CD out of balance if they are
not quite centered.
I have an Epson Stylus Photo R300 here in the office. It was far from
being an expensive printer, and has a special adaptor for printing CDs. The
quality of what it produces is absolutely excellent, and is as close to
professional as you are likely to find, although it does take 2-3 minutes to
print a full face colour CD. It's a brilliant printer generally speaking, and
even handles envelopes like a dream. I also like the fact that there are 6
individually replaceable ink tanks I'm sure there are many other models out by
now too.
Since we got it, we've never used paper CD labels.
If you do feel it necessary to produce an adhesive label version, bear in
mind that Nero is possibly more popular, since it is an integral part of a
popular CD burning program anyway. (At least it is here in the UK)
George W F Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joey Stuckey
Sent: 29 March 2006 05:24
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Slightly OT CD labeler for the blind
Hi Guys,
I have a software developer that is interested in working on a CD label
program for the blind, however, I have a few questions for you all that will
determent weather or not this project goes forward, so please do email me.
1, what do you think a fair price for this program would be: $15, $20, $25
or $30?
Personally, I feel that $25 is pretty good!
2 how picky are you about which labels it works with? I told him that I
felt that anything was better then what we have now, but, that the most popular
CD labeling program being used was probably Avery design pro..
What do you all think?
We would have to pick one brand of labels, that's the only draw back, but,
if you guys use different labels, let me know. But, I say, what ever label we
have to work with is fine as long as it is easy to get hold of!
Thanks,
Joey Stuckey
www.blindresources.info
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