CD Labelmaker

by Data Becker

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002S7K2
• Item model number: 39905
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,086 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #15 in Software > Graphics > Home Publishing > CD Labels
  • #31 in Software > Video & Music > CD Burning & Labeling > Mastering & Burning
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

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

Amazon.com Product Description

With CD LabelMaker you can create and print colorful, customized CD labels and jewel case inserts. Includes 20 DATA BECKER labels and jewel case inserts so you can get started right away. Use the Quick Layout Assistant to adapt and edit any of the existing sample templates enclosed or create a totally new one. Outline and shadow, create rounded text, and choose an image from one of 500 pieces of clip art. Perfect for creating your own music CDs, backing up office files and records, and printing labels for shareware and low-cost software.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars CD Labelmaker : merely middling, June 25, 2000

By 

Big Jessie (England, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CD Labelmaker (CD-ROM)

Having managed to install the software eventually (warning to users of systems with already overpacked registries - it can do damage) I thought I'd try it out with a friend's compilation disk. The software is easy to use, although not particularly powerful. It comes with basic templates which are difficult to change too succesfully. The clipart provided is, as usual, awful, though you can import your own artwork. The tools provided don't give you much scope for artistic flair, with some basic text manipulation sadly missing. However, it works on low spec computers, and does it's job well. For basic labels it's really cheap and easy to use, though it's not right for professional designers who want more power and flexibility.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for What I Needed!, June 19, 2000

By 

Matt P. Briel (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CD Labelmaker (CD-ROM)

I am the member of a club, and we just recently finished our first game. I was responsible for creating the CD labels, and the jewel case labels. I found this software kit to be very helpful and easy. I sat down for about 5 minutes and learned my way around the program, then I got right to work. Working casually for about 15 minutes, the product that this program gave me was exactly what we needed.