How to fake PIXMA MP500 printer for CD-LabelPrint?

[fvisagie]

Hi All,

The company's production facility where DVDs get burnt and printed is on a different floor to my office. They use a Canon PIXMA MP500 printer for printing the dics.

I was hoping that I could install CD-LabelPrint on my workstation for authoring artwork and then use the one installed on the production machine for printing. However, when I launch CD-LabelPrint on my workstation it complains that no compatible printer was found and exits.

I'm not keen on remote desktop stuff.

Is there a way of faking the MP500 printer, or any other way of getting CD-LabelPrint to run on my workstation?

Many thanks,
Francois

[Bjs]

Doubt it ... only if the printer is a shared network resource will it ever work so you might look at other cd/dvd printing software that is not dependent upon "connected hardware" resources.

Using such a printer for mass production work just isn't being serious.

[fvisagie]

Hi Bjs,

Thanks for the response. Any freeware authoring & printing software for personal use you'd like to recommend?

(BTW that particular printer's workload is nothing to be concerned about ).

Kind regards,
Francois

[jman98]

I use Acoustica CD Label Maker with my Pixma iP4500. It's not freeware, but it's also not very expensive. I'm really satisfied with what it can do and I definitely recommend it.

[minidv2dvd]

if you download and install the mp500 printer driver and it shows up in control panel/printers and faxes on your computer you should get cd-labelprint to run without the printer being attached.

[fvisagie]

Thanks everyone. CD-LabelPrint starts up with a shared network printer for now and I'll also try it later when not connected to the network.

If for some reason this approach doesn't work out I'll look into Acoustica. I've heard good things about it elsewhere too.

Kind regards,
Francois