On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Start here for the full story:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/dvd/dvdprint/dvd-print.html
>
> or go directly to the final chapter:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/dvd/dvdp/f13-success.html
>
> I make no guarantees, I've only tried it on my C5580, but it has
> worked OK through several updates of hplip now, so things may have
> stabilized.

Thanks for all that. Your stuff is always interesting to read.

After reading, I did manage to get the printer past the error and on
to pretending to print. After much pain, I actually saw ink on the
label. (I'm terrified to think what the inside of my printer looks
like now.) My latest iteration seems to be off by only about a quarter
inch.

What a bother.

-Alan
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On 01/09/2011 08:12 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
> Hiisi wrote:
>> Alan Evans:
>>> I looked at glabels, but it seems very oriented toward printing onto
>>> labels and covers, with no templates for printing directly onto the
>>> DVD that I can find.
>>
>> I'm not answering your question because I don't have printer with such
>> capability. I only want to protect glabels. I use it to create
>> lightscribe labels. There's a lot of templates you're looking for under
>> CD/DVD category:
>> http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7481/kuvakaappausnewlabelorc.png
>
> I wasn't attacking glabels, so I'm not sure why you feel the need to
> "protect" it. I only said that it had no templates for printing
> directly onto printable DVDs, which is still true notwithstanding your
> screenshot.
>
> -Alan
I used to have templates for Glabels that would print both sizes of
CDs, as well as credit card size CDs. (You had to be careful about
the orientation of the CD.) I even submitted them for inclusion in
Glabels. But an update broke them, and I have not had time to fix
them. I get a wrong media size error from the printer.

Mikkel
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Mikkel <mikkel@infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> I used to have templates for Glabels that would print both sizes of
> CDs, as well as credit card size CDs. (You had to be careful about
> the orientation of the CD.) I even submitted them for inclusion in
> Glabels. But an update broke them, and I have not had time to fix
> them. I get a wrong media size error from the printer.

I was starting to think it was my printer instead of glabels. No
matter what custom media size I set (all around the recommended 5in x
5in) I ALWAYS get a media size error on my HP Photosmart C5580. Keep
in mind, I'm talking about the printer, the driver happily feeds it to
the printer without error.

Richard
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:59:09 -0600
Richard Shaw wrote:

> I ALWAYS get a media size error on my HP Photosmart C5580.

The C5580 is the printer I have and used for all my DVD
printing experiments with (eventually) great success:

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/dvd/dvdp/f13-success.html

There were certainly versions of hplip that had big problems
back when I first started trying to get it to work:

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/dvd/dvdprint/dvd-print.html

But the latest hplip on fedora 14 (and 13 before that) is
working great for me using my "kewpie" printing program
(which I wrote because I also found vast problems with most
programs printing support - no two apps seem to print the
same way to the same printer :-).
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was starting to think it was my printer instead of glabels. No
> matter what custom media size I set (all around the recommended 5in x
> 5in) I ALWAYS get a media size error on my HP Photosmart C5580. Keep
> in mind, I'm talking about the printer, the driver happily feeds it to
> the printer without error.

After reading Tom's account (thanks, Tom!), I discovered that the
printer is expecting the "document" to be precisely 360pt square, with
the actual doughnut area where you might want to put ink is offset
somewhere inside that. I eventually figured out the exact offset for
my printer and produced a template document for GIMP that even
includes the little flat edge where the printer can't print. Then I
just have to remember to always print my file in the lower left corner
of the page on the print dialog, which GIMP seems to insist must be
full page size no matter what.

Actually, I find GIMP to be overall a bit clumsy for this sort of
thing. I wish that I actually had a working template for glabels or
else knew how to make one.

-Alan
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:03:25 -0800
Alan Evans wrote:

> the little flat edge where the printer can't print

That's actually an artifact of earlier versions of hplip.
With never versions I can print edge to edge on the entire
DVD, no flat spots.
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>
>> the little flat edge where the printer can't print
>
> That's actually an artifact of earlier versions of hplip.
> With never versions I can print edge to edge on the entire
> DVD, no flat spots.

Newer version as in, "Newer than the latest F13 updates"-newer?

How do mere plebeians get to use such "newer versions"?

-Alan
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:29:33 -0800
Alan Evans wrote:

> Newer version as in, "Newer than the latest F13 updates"-newer?

Nah, that was happening back around f10 & f11. With f13 and f14
(at least on my C5580) I haven't had any clipping. If you've just
been upgrading instead of doing new installs though you may still
have the old .ppd file for the printer.
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