I therefore recommend first exporting as a PDF and then printing from inside of your PDF viewer, in my case the Evince Document Viewer (default on Ubuntu Linux). Whilst I believe it is possible to print to CD from the printer driver page makes it very difficult to change the settings to allow printing direct to CD. The problem then comes when trying to print.

The printable area is dependant upon the CDs used (particularly whether the inner circle is printable) and upon printer driver settings (more about later). Any parts that are on the printable area will be printed and any parts that fall outside of the printable area will be ignored. Note that the CD image is on a non-printable layer and so will not be printed. Opening the template you will get a page as follows:Īs you can see the position of the CD is indicated.

OpenOffice / Libre Office Epson Direct CD print template (epson-cd-layout.otg).

To make life easier I've created the following template which you can open in / Libre Office. In my case using the A4 paper size as I live in Europe, but if you are in the US you could change your page size to Legal paper size if you preferred, although you shouldn't need to as only a small amount of the page is used. Looking for direct CD print for Canon printers? Click here.įirstly you need to create the CD in the correct position which is in the Top Left of a page. This template is unlikely to work on other manufacturer's printers. Please use the comments below if you have any experience with other models. I also expect that the template should work on other Epson printers. The template should work on on any platform (Linux, Mac, Windows etc.) or on Libre Office, but I'm not sure whether it is necessary to apply the workaround on all versions / platforms of the office suites. I've only tried this using 3 running on Ubuntu (at time of writing the default office suite). I'm still very happy with the printer, but there's just one little thing that needs a bit of a fudge to work, which is CD printing.

Since writing my review of the Epson Stylus Multifunction Photo printer PX720WD I've been using it more.

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