Customer Reviews

MEMOREX CD/DVD LabelMaker Expert

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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.

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.

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.

This software is horrible, and the actual lables are even worse. I put one of the memorex lables on to a cd i just made and i used the lablel applicator to put on the lables. I pressed as hard as i can to make sure the label was sticking on to the cd. I played the cd in my car, no problem, but when i went to eject the disk, the disk would not come out because part of label got stuck in the machine. I managed to get it out with a tweeser but part of the label is still stuck in there and i cant play any cd's. This program is not user friendly at all and features are very limited. You are much better going with neato or avery software.

This is the most frustrating, worthless software I've ever purchased. Spent an incredible amount of time trying to make a single label and the software locks up continuously and you cannot open saved files, much less print them.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.

Labels are label applicator are ok.

The program is very difficult to manipulate.

Got a different program and works fine.

Will not print on my HP 3210. After a while, the drop-down menus appear blank--trying to save the hard work is impossible! Does not allow me to open ANY of the picture files in my computer to copy images--I have to go through several steps, copy and paste, copy and paste, via a MEMORY STICK!... One star is one too many.

I bought this product for the applicator because it says it centers the full face labels. I ended up wasting my money on this. It does not center the labels. I have to eyeball centering the label which is what I did prior to buying this item. It is useless in my opinion.

This is the older version of the memorex label maker. I bought this kit to make 100 cd labels for a wedding. Unfortunately, the 138 labels is misleading. There are only 20 sheets included, so you can make up to 40 disc labels. I guess they counted the full disc label as 3 (because it is 3-in-1) but that's cheating because you can only use each 3-in-1 once. They also count misc utility stickers as labels to get the "138" count. Very misleading. So I had to go to the store and get two 50-pack refill kits. These refill kits also have a better quality paper (they weren't gloss, just nicer paper) compared to the older kit. Many people complain that the label creation software is clunky and difficult to use, but I wouldn't know because I created my label image using Photoshop (a much harder endeavor). The most trouble came when printing the labels. (Like many other people have complained about...) They didn't have a consistent height alignment. After a LOT of trial and error, it came down to making sure the same print quality is used (software doesn't save the print settings, quite annoying) and that the paper is the same thickness. (The new refills are slightly thinner than the old ones so the printer grabs them in a different way and it prints lower on the page). Very frustrating to keep wasting label sheets on what should be a no-brainer, one-click process. On the brighter side, the CD stomper is helpful and easy to use. I give the product an average rating because the labels eventually turned out pretty nice, despite the printing alignment problems and the time spent correcting them. Oh, and if you really need to get this label system, make sure you get the new kit because the labels turn out much nicer with the newer paper.

just a note to add to all the other more-negative reviews...

I purchased this to label 8 (eight) DVD movies I had burnt. The software, though somewhat 'foreign' as noted in other reviews, worked fine for me. Once 'calibrated' my printer (HP D4160) printed every label just about perfectly. It was when the time came to apply the labels that problems ensued. I printed 4 sheets at first, and of those 8 labels, 5 of them peeled off fine; the other 3 stuck in areas large enough that would cause uneven weight of the disc had they been applied so they had to be reprinted. Of those 5 that were usable, 3 of them applied 'ok', meaning they are within my high standards of how a 1-2-3 product like this should work. The 3 keepers were just about centered and acceptable to me. So I now had 5 more to do, easy right? I printed another 3 sheets and of these just 2 labels applied acceptably. I ended up using all but one sheet of labels to get a total of 8 discs labeled to my standards. This product is being returned and I highly recommend getting something else, especially given the $20 price tag.