Dymo Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Winners in the Back-to-School giveaways

by TUAW Blogger (Sep 8th, 2008)

If you entered one of our snazzy back-to-school giveaways in August you might want to check your email (and junk mail folders) today. We've sent confirmations to everyone who won. Congratulations to you, randomly-selected recipients! Here's a look at what we gave away: Ten licenses of ...

Win a Dymo DiscPaint from TUAW

by TUAW Blogger (Aug 20th, 2008)

Despite the notion that one day optical media will seem "quaint," in the current world we deal with a lot of physical discs. So why not label those discs with something a little better than a permanent marker? The Dymo DiscPainter is a rather large but impressive printer for one thing only: optical ...

TUAW Review: Dymo DiscPainter Part 4

by Steven Sande (Jun 29th, 2008)

Conclusion Reviewer Rating: 3 out of 5 possible Should you buy one? If you need to do a lot of CD/DVD labeling and money isn't an object, yes. However, if you need a new printer anyway, the HP Photosmart C5280 all-in-one gives you a disc and paper printer, copier, scanner, and more, all in one box ...

TUAW Review: Dymo DiscPainter Part 3

by Steven Sande (Jun 29th, 2008)

Software (continued) Likewise, trying to pick the "TUAW Green" for the text on the label, I thoroughly expected to see the standard Apple color picker so I could use the little magnifier tool to go for the green. No such luck. I finally figured out that I could option-click one of the custom colors ...

TUAW Review: Dymo DiscPainter Part 2

by Steven Sande (Jun 29th, 2008)

Size, Installation, and Setup (continued) The DiscPainter comes with a Mac OS X / Windows installation CD that installs drivers and Discus for Dymo, an application that helps you to the design the disc image. After plugging in the USB cable and restarting your Mac, the instructions take you through ...

TUAW Review: Dymo DiscPainter

by Steven Sande (Jun 29th, 2008)

I have a mountain of CDs and DVDs in my office. Some of them are in sleeves, others are stacked on spindles. For the most part, my disc labeling consists of grabbing a Sharpie ultra-fine-point marker and scrawling something right on the top of the disc. I've tried sticky labels before, but stopped ...