User guide

Using Discus
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3 Place the cursor over the control knob on the
lower slider bar. The pop-up box shows the
measurements. The default is 42 mm. You
can check your recordable media print sur-
face dimensions by measuring from the open
area of the hub to where the print surface
begins. Set this adjustment to correspond
with the media that you’re using.
4 Open the printer tray by pressing the lower
button on the printer cabinet and place a
blank disc in the tray.
5 Click the Test Print button. Discus prints a
disc with a series of concentric circles printed
on the outer edge and the inner edge of
the disc surface. You can use these circles
to determine whether further adjustments
are needed to properly specify the printable
region and center the print area. Use the
arrow keys below the slider bars, if necessary,
to make small adjustments to center the print
image. The concentric circles on the test
print disc will indicate whether the center
point needs to be shifted in any direction.
In most cases, very small changes of one or
two tenths of a millimeter will be sufficient to
center the print area.
6 Continue to modify the slider bar settings
and arrow control centering until your Test
Print produces a disc with the inner circle
marking the edge of the printable area and
the farthest outer circle showing the outer
rim of the printable area. All circles should be
centered on the disc.
Note: The Disc Printer Properties dialog box in
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cludes a tab that provides Mask Settings. You do
not need to enable the mask settings if you have
set up the print regions properly in Discus.
CREATING DISC LABELS
Discus includes a collection of high-quality
graphic images that you can use as backgrounds
for disc printing, but you can also add your own
images—photographs or bitmap images—to cre
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ate disc labels. As with other Discus labels, these
custom creations can be stored in a library as
print files for later use.
Discus can import all standard bitmapped graph
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ics, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, and PCT, and the
program makes it easy to scale images of varying
size to the disc area. This allows you to use press-
quality versions of your corporate logo, product
packaging shots, high-resolution photographs,
and so on, to achieve very smooth and consistent
images when printing to disc.
To import user graphics
1 From the Discus application window, select
the Photo tab. The window that appears
shows an image area on the right with the
disc region to be printed outlined in dotted
red circles.
2 Click the New button to select an image for
the background. You can browse through all
the local or networked folders to locate one
or more photographs to use for the back
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ground. Click Open to confirm the selec
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tions. Discus displays your selected images
in the image browser at the bottom of the
screen, as well as in the image editing area
at the right.
3 Once you have selected an image, Discus
displays the control sliders to modify the
image size, orientation, contrast, sharpness,
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