Re: Reverse-engineering CD printing on the Epson R300

James Cort wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 20:38, Michael Sweet wrote:
>
> > James Cort wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > The alignment of the CD doesn't seem to affect the SN command, neither
> > > does whether or not it is an 8cm CD or setting it to photo quality.
> > >
> > > Either I've misunderstood something or my guess is all the SN command
> > > does in this context is shunt the printer into "Print CD" mode and
> > > everything after that is essentially a normal print job.
> >
> > > ...
> >
> > Didn't have a chance to jump in earlier, however in tests I've done
> > using the CUPS DDK driver the R300 (which is used as an example in
> > the manual) only needs to be told to do manual feed to print on a
> > CD.  I've never had to use the undocumented SN commands with the
> > R300...
>
>
> That would explain quite a bit.
>
> Anyone know of any half-decent opensource CD printing software?

Perhaps one should use a DTP/Layout software like Scribus. There one 
could probably easil;y create a template for the CD tray and then fill 
the CD with ones personal text, graphics, photos, ...

   Till


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