TUAW Review: Dymo DiscPainter Part 4

I have had a Canon Pixma ip4300 for several years now and it does a great job of printing CD & DVD labels.
I use Disc Cover 2 which is included with Toast 9 for designing the labels. It has really high quality printing, a wide range of templates or I can use any graphic I have on my Mac for the label.
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Couldn't agree with you more. The best quality prints I got from this thing is with the dymo-supplied graphics... which are downright ugly.

I agree, the multipage format with a survey popup in the middle is likely to drop TUAW from my "top two" list of Blog reads.

I've owned the DiscPainter for a while now. The software is clunky at best but that's not the real problem: the print quality is awful.

High resolution? I don't think so. Even at the highest quality setting any graphics you include will be covered in concentric circular bands and will be very grainy. Text is crisp but anything graphic is a mess.

Also, the the CD just rests upon a rubber ring rather than snapping into place. That means the disc slips a bit as it spins throwing off the alignment - sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. I had to toss quite a few CDs until I started taping them in place!

Overall, it works for basic labeling or personal use but forget about using it for professional purposes or anything important.

The "4 pages" thing is lame and annoying. The DiscPainter is insanely overpriced compared to buying a $99 Epson printer that can also print on CDs.

The "4 pages" thing is lame and annoying. The DiscPainter is insanely overpriced compared to buying a $99 Epson printer that can also print on CDs.

Comments at Amazon and at http://www.imaginginsider.com/?p=71103 have also proved insightful on the DiscPainter.

This is just a simple attempt to push the PI (page impressions) count. If the PI is higher, advertising space on the site gets more valuable. Simple as that. And annoying as hell.

this is horrible, if you want to make "parts", make it short enough so I don't have to scroll. but it's longer and utterly USELESS! the screenshot itself takes up about the same space as the rest of the text :/

I wrote this for Part 1 of the 4 part (same day) review, and I'm pasting it into every other part's page just so it gets seen...

Are your corporate overlords now forcing you to write multiple page reviews when this incredibly short 4 parter would have easily fitted on one page? The screenshot app from barely over a month ago is at least 2 or 3 times as long as all these 4 pages combined.

I am really disappointed with this move and do believe it will be the end of TUAW, as well as the rest of Weblogs Inc. if it catches on.