In practice, I've gotten as many as 42 discs from a single ribbon. Casio specs a ribbon as able to print 40 areas, which is only 20 discs if you print top and bottom. The Mac OS X drivers don't do this they only advance the ribbon between 1/8" and 1/4" between each print area. So it wastes three inches of ribbon for each print area.
The Windows printer drivers advance the ribbon the length of a print area between each print. The printer is able to print to a rectangular area top and bottom of the CD in a 1" by 3" rectangle. One further benefit is that you get roughly twice the number of prints from a ribbon cartridge as you would under MS Windows. Graphic converted kept the resolution at 300 dpi, which is the printer's resolution. I tried using Preview to convert the PDF, but it kept reducing the resolution from 300 dpi to 72 dpi, so the text looked fuzzy when actually printed. But you can use whatever layout tool you want, be it Word, PowerPoint, Keynote, etc. What I did was use TextEdit to layout my text for the label, then print to PDF and use Graphic converter to crop and convert to JPG, and finally, dragged the JPG to the print area. But this can be overcome easily, as it allows for images to be dropped in the print areas in the layout software.
There are some limitations to the software: it is extremely limiting in the amount of text formatting you can do. It works perfectly with the Casio printer. Casio doesn't support this printer under Mac OS X, but TDK sells the exact same printer in Europe as the LPCW-100, and they have some OS X software available on their website for free download. The current model is the CW-100, which can be had from J&R.com for $109 with a $30 rebate. Just thought I'd share this as I haven't seen this posted anywhere else, and this looked like the best place to post to about it.Ĭasio makes these neat thermal wax printers that print directly on the CD.
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