Discus - Print labels for all types of removable media

Discus is a great labeling tool. We have gone to the utmost effort to deliver a product that allows you to create a great looking label with the absolute minimum of effort, fast.

Recommended by musicians, recording engineers, videographers, composers, and IT professionals.

Here are some key features of "Discus":

￭ Create labels for CD and DVD's, mini-CD's, mini-CD jewel cases, business card CD's, jewel case covers and inserts, DVD cases, VHS spine and face labels, audiocassette labels and business/calling cards.
￭ Supports all inkjet CD printers, including the latest models from Canon's Pixma line and all Epson R series. Updated frequently to include new die cut papers released by all major manufacturers.
￭ Import bitmap graphics and photos. Supports a huge range of formats including JPEG, GIF, BMP, PICT, SGI, PSD, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and SGI.
￭ Loads instantly and requires no installation - can even run directly from the CD. Great when you need to switch between computers, or print a label at a copy shop.
￭ Discus saves you money - Discus supports all brands of papers. Forget about paper vendor supplied software, which only supports their proprietary papers. With Discus you can choose the price/performance combination you need for each job, and choose between hundreds of types of papers. Change paper or printer type without redesigning your label.
￭ Special text features like curved and angled text makes it easy to fit text to the CD shape. Discus also supports advanced layouts such as spiral text, and offers professional quality glow and drop shadow features.
￭ Switches instantly between 15 languages, including Dansk, Deutsch, Ellenica (Greek), English, Espa±ol, Fran§ais, Italiano, Japanese, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Portug»es, Suomi, Svenska, and Turkish.
￭ Discus offers 680 MB of high fidelity artwork, including professionally drawn advertising grade illustrations for weddings and special occasions. Over 1000 CD backgrounds. Browse some of the CD designs.
￭ With powerful photo manipulation features such as opacity control, edge feathering, layer manipulation, use your own photographs and artwork combined with the painting tools to add lines, shapes, textures, dots, etc.
￭ Print small quantities on your inkjet or laser, or use the export feature to create a giant high resolution version suitable for sending to a replication house. (only on Macintosh).


Requirements:

￭ 512 MB RAM
￭ 800 x 600 pixel display
￭ 900 MB hard disk


Limitations:

￭ This demonstration version of Discus will operate for 30 days. During the trial period it will superimpose the word "DEMO" on your printouts.
￭ This demo version has only a tiny fraction of the artwork included in the full product, which ships on a hybrid Macintosh Windows CDROM.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· updated inner diameter on online labels 5625 paper
· added disc keeper 12 pack wrap
· added prolabel D5 insert
· added prolabel B31316 paper
· added plain file folder label layout
· added Alea to LE version logic
· increased max. radius from 140% to 180% for circular text
· added a few papers
· fixed problem with belkin launchpad layout where it was duplicated
· added Avery C9269 paper
· corrected avery papers 5471, 5472, etc.
· corrected avery paper 8953
· corrected paper Prolabel 218
· corrected mac version so that last used save folder is remembered.
· changed calculation for document size for DVD wrap and other plain paper projects so that the paint buffer size matches the paper exactly,
· avoiding stretching or squishing when printing to for example 35 mm spine DVD wraps.
· fixed problem on Mac version where if no language dependent subfolders are found in the templates folder we duplicated items in the regular folder in the list.
· added HP D5280 and D5360 CD printers to printer list
· adjusted plain jewel combol jewel base to use width of 151 mm as a compromise between the 149 and the 153 crowds.
· generalized HP D53xx series printers to one single series
· added two LabelDr layouts
· fixed a few translations
· fixed problem in windows where CONTROL key in TEXT phase was not showing eyedropper cursor
· fixed problem in cross-platform document transfer where quicktime on one machine uses a slightly different codec name for JPEG files
· added CD Stomper X84024 paper