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Now you can print your CDs, like a professional! I mean, you can print CDs with your own design using the D-I-Y CD label kit or sticker, but the graphic will never be the same as the ones that we buy in record stores. Now, with the DYMO Disc Painter, you can print your own high quality graphics directly into the disc (not on paper or sticker).

The DYMO Disc Painter can print up to 1200 dpi, giving great quality to your graphics. You can also adjust the print settings to best (1200 dpi), normal and in case you are in a hurry, you can adjust the print setting to fast, which can print on your disc for only 60 seconds, for the 600 dpi quality. If you want to produce even better results, the ink density can also be adjusted to give superior detail and color to your graphics. The user is also given the option to choose the quality of the disc surface, such as matte, glossy or color.

In just three easy steps, you can create a personalized CD or DVD. First, you have to make your own design, using either Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, InDesign or Sure Thing. After you have made your design, you can now insert the disc into the printer. Adjust the printer settings and then you can print on your disc.

Not like other disc printers, the DYMO Disc Painter uses the Radical Print Technology, which means that the disc is printed while it spins, thus producing excellent quality prints.

This would be a good investment. For only $279.95, you can now start your small business with the DYMO Disc Painter.

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What are the main requirements of a burning software? It should obviously support all operations that a user would need. It should also be fast, resource friendly. Free would be nice as well. Lots of different CD burning software programs are available these days on the Internet, from CD Burner XP over Deepburner to IMGBurn. Most of them handle the basic burning operations just fine but many are unfortunately making them more complex than they should be. Others use to many resources, have an irritating user interface or crash to often to make them the burning software of choice.

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free is an old version of the burning software of Ashampoo which has been released to the public. Everyone can download and use it without having to register or pay money for it. It starts up reasonably fast without splash screens and long loading times. All operations are selectable from the main menu. Some operations are further divided, the Burn Files and Folders category contains options to burn a new disk or update an existing one.

Burning Studio Free supports CD, DVD and Blu-Ray disks. Here is what you can do with the burning software:

• Burn files to disk
• Burn or rip music.
• Burn movies
• Copy a disk
• Create or burn disk images
• Erase rewritable disks
• Backup or restore files

The list is pretty comprehensive. The most popular image formats (img, iso, cue/bin) are supported by Burning Studio Free which should be sufficient for most users.

Most impressive is the responsive interface which is much faster than that of Nero and similar applications.

If you are looking for a fast, responsive and high-quality burning software that does not cost a dime you should take a closer look at Ashampoo Burning Software Free. It might exactly be what you are looking for.

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A designer has developed a concept MP3-cum-CD player that promises to play MP3 and traditional CDs, but in a way that’s anything but traditional.The DMP looks fairly normal at first. It’s supports MP3 files, has a USB port, headphone jack, keypads for play/skip/volume adjustments and so on. It also has a built in microphone and circular LCD display.

But the player can also play CDs by splitting into a V shape. This creates enough room for a standard CD to be popped into the device and played as though it were some form of CD player with its casing missing.

DWP is still a concept at this stage, but we should give its designer full marks for originality.

Nero has announced that it will release the next version of its popular CD/DVD burning suite on October 1.

Nero 8 will include a new interface for burning and ripping audio and video discs. The software is optimized for Windows Vista, and includes support for creating Blu-Ray and HD-DVD video discs.

Other updates include:

• Upload videos to Youtube, MySpace, and My Nero with one click
• Nero RescueAgent lets you restore deleted files and recover data from damaged discs.
• Run Nero DiscCopy gadget from the Windows Vista sidebar to copy discs with one click

Nero 8 will cost $100 if you buy the retail box. Or you can save $20 by downloading it from Nero’s website.

n this tutorial, “loup226″ shows us how to make a nifty “floating CD” aka “hummingbird card effect”, using tape, a seatbelt strap, and disc.