Description:
CD LabelMaker is a simple, automatic tool for creating custom labels, and it successfully removes much of the painstaking setup work programs like Photoshop or Illustrator include in the process. What you're getting, essentially, is a prefabricated template ensuring that the printing process will be smooth. Since the software is designed to handle only CD labels, covers, and inserts, it has a fairly basic tool set. However, it does offer control over some text attributes: font, size, color, style, and drop shadow color and offset. It can also create text on a circular path for skirting the edge of a CD. CD LabelMaker comes with a wide collection of clip art for background graphics, and it interfaces directly with a scanner for importing custom-made graphics that are not yet in digital format. It can also import most common file formats such as BMP, JPG, and TGA files. If you are looking to design custom graphic artwork for CDs, this is not the application. There are no facilities for drawing graphics, kerning text, or controlling tracking or leading of text. For truly custom work, art must be created in another application and imported. CD LabelMaker's strength is in handling the mundane task of laying out the artwork and making sure it prints in the right position on the labels and insert paper. For this, it is ideal. A major advantage CD LabelMaker has over using a full-fledged graphics application is its low hardware requirements. For a busy department that has a large number of one-off or short-run CD duplication jobs, this is the ideal package to use on that old computer that's buried in a back office or at the bottom of a closet. With this software and a low-cost ink-jet color printer, you can have a dedicated printing station for all your CD labeling needs. It's a simple tool that works well for most needs. --Mike Caputo
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