In this tutorial i’m going to explain you how to print on a printable cd. Please make note that this is not a photoshop tutorial.

What do you need?
Printable cd: I advise you to use full printable cd’s
A Color protection spray: to protect the ink from your sweaty hands ;-)
A printer that can print on cd: I use a Canon Pixma 5300, but I think Epson has also got printers who are able to print on cd’s.

You decide which information you want on your cd. I put following info on my cd.
*Label (in fact the logo)
*Catalog nr
*Track (duh)
*Artist (duh)
*which mix (duh)
*Track length
*BPM
*Key

I use 8 colors to describe the general genre of the track. I know it’s not always that correct, but it gives me a general id.
In this tutorial I’m going to burn and print the cd for the track ‘The migrants – I tought that’ in the Boris Dlugosch Remix (try to pronounce that ). It’s a massive elektro-house track. Hell yeah I know I’m on tranceaddict =)

I use adobe photoshop, but I you can also use photoshop elements. You can download my sample file here ==> [[ LINK REMOVED ]]


Now you just have to edit all the information. If the label isn’t in the label map, you probably can find the label logo on discogs.



Once you’ve edited all the information you can start printing the cd! Go to file > print
Then you go to properties and setup your printer correctly. Than just print!







Once the cd is printed, spray with your color protection spray. Then wait 5 minutes.
WOEHOE, borat would say: GREAT SUCCES88!!!88!!8!!!!!!

Please make note that I didn't use full printable cd's in this example.

A full printable cd looks like this:


Any questions, just ask!

top stuff - i havent got a printer atm but plan on buying one so will make sure it has a tray for CDs! are printable CDs usually easy to find? or are most CDs printable?

It's not very difficult to find i think. Just look for cd's with a complete white surface, and as i mentioned before go for the FULL printable cd's!

thanks man...good stuff

Adding this to the tutorial

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Fortuna Favet Fortibus.

Cool tutorial.

Whats the difference betwen printable and full printable cd?

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If you look at a regular CD, there's a "bump" ring around the hole. On fully printable CD's, they got rid of the bump, and give you white printable surface almost all the way to the center. You get more printing area.

The CD's are availble online for cheap.

That Canon printer isn't available in the states for some reason. Only the Epson's have the CD printing feature for consumer grade printers here.

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Originally posted by nec Cool tutorial. Whats the difference betwen printable and full printable cd?

great stuff, cheers! never thort of using a spray.

spoonz, i use svp.co.uk for printable cds/dvds, theyre pretty gd and about as cheap as you can find.

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Originally posted by theholyalex great stuff, cheers! never thort of using a spray. spoonz, i use svp.co.uk for printable cds/dvds, theyre pretty gd and about as cheap as you can find.

cheers mate. just ordered a new printer out the catalogue lol

thx!!
I always wondered how to print Cds

awswome! i wish i had a printer that could print on cds

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On OOKA-OOKA ME NACHOS ME PRESS KEYS ON COMPUTER GOOD

well i ended up goin to asda and buying printer in the end, got some printable CD's at the same time... thnx to the tut i got myself a couple nicely laid out burned cd's lol