MEMOREX CD/DVD LabelMaker Expert

by Memorex

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 2.6 x 12.9 inches ; 1.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002423XG
• Item model number: 3202-3948
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 18, 2006

Product Description

The CD/DVD LabelMaker Expert gives your homemade discs a professional look. Keep your homemade CDs and DVDs organized with this easy-to-use label printing tool. Includes label applicator, spine & jewel box inserts and software for designing templates

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hit an miss, October 1, 2005

By 

JMK "jmk" (Rochester Hills, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MEMOREX CD/DVD LabelMaker Expert (Electronics)

On certain printers, this software and label set are perfect. When I print to a high-quality, Xerox 6250 laser coler printer (about a $3k printer), they come out perfectly. But, when I print to my $80 HP 1410 printer, your guess is as good as mine as to whether the label will line up. MOst of the time, it's OK with me, since I'm printing labels for backed up dvd's and music, but if you want perfect labels, you will never get it from this (the in-program printer calibration utility does very little good).

The software itself is easy and intuitive. You can import pictures and automatically size them to "fit" the label. However, your options for text are severly limited. Also, the software forgets printer settings every time you print (and will go back to your default printer setting everytime). It's also not the fastest when saving or loading, but all in all it's OK.

This is a mediocre package and software. The labels are fine, but the limitations in the software make it questionable.

The stamper is very nice, however.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Labels May Destroy DVDs., November 28, 2005

By 

J. Mozdzen "Buffon" (U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MEMOREX CD/DVD LabelMaker Expert (Electronics)

From the last page of the manual:

"WARNING: ... Using a standard or full-face label on DVDs may cause permanent damage to your disc. To reduce risk of lost data, use the center only label for all DVDs. ... "

In other words, don't use these labels on DVDs, or label only the central 1.5 inches of DVD.

Other brands guarantee their labels to not harm DVDs. That guarantee is little comfort if in 20 years the DVD is unreadable, but shows other makers have confidence in their brand.

The label applicator can be replaced by an empty blank DVD spool.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Product, December 15, 2005

By 

Businessman, hubby and father (Pleasanton, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MEMOREX CD/DVD LabelMaker Expert (Electronics)

I had similar problems to the other reviewers. It's almost impossible to get the image lined up onto the label properly. The software comes with a calibrator but it did not solve the problem. No matter how it's calibrated it prints off-center. After spending hours creating the DVD movie, I expect the ability to print a label or case cover to be relatively simple, or at least to work as documented. This product fails in that respect and it's not worth my time to troubleshoot it.

Also, the software is somewhat hokey. It isn't even written with a standard Windows interface so it's not as intuitive as I would expect. They created their own user interface so when you are trying to browse to find a file, the interface seems foreign, making it hard to use.

Don't waste your money on this product. I'm heading to Best Buy tomorrow to return mine.