 |   Publisher : NEATO Company : Neato Our Price: $27.72 |
Product Description
Choose a built-in template from the included library or make your own. Check the Internet for templates shared by other disclabel users. Share a template from your own library. Import play lists direct from iTunes, iPhoto and iDVD or enter your own directly. Import images directly from iPhoto albums, iTunes or a file. Include and edit multi-line text laid out in a circle. Add imported track information. Rotate and scale elements of your design. Edit and create a reusable template. Create designs for several related elements - CDs, jewel cases, DVD cases, & VHS tapes. Choose your labels, and drag over your designs to print from the design list. Calibrate your printer to perfectly align printing on your labels.PRODUCT FEATURES:Built for Mac OS X;Import track lists from iTunes, iPhoto, and iDVD;Start with a pre-designed template, or make your own;Automate label creation with AppleScript;Import images directly from iPhoto albums and iTunes;Download additional templates and share yours via the Internet;Include multi-line text laid out in a circle;500 High Resolution Background Images.Customer reviews
Disappointing results with disclabel NEATO edition for Mac by .. S. Baird (Baton Rouge, LA United States)
I had come across this Mac version of the NEATO software after talking to a friend who recommended the PC version. Disclabel has some good ideas here, but the software needs to be far more user friendly than it is. Don't be looking for much in the way of help files to help you through your initial exposure to the software either, the help files (for several versions - the latest as of 5/2/05 is 2.3.1) are not included on the install CD. You must log on to their website to view their help - meager as it is. You are, in essence, flying blind in a snow storm here.
Importing your own graphics is cumbersome. You cannot drag and drop your artwork on to a blank template; the software is designed, literally, to import directly from other software libraries - such as iPhoto or iTunes. Once there, the cryptic alignment tools aren't of much help without documentation they so desperately need.
There's no print preview either. Although it is relatively simple to use the pop-up menu to select your printer and the corresponding paper, you'll have no idea what you'll get until you print it out. Using my Epson R200, I created two of my own CDR labels, but my prints looked nothing like what I could view on screen (from Photoshop); they were much darker, turning royal into navy blue, for example, and casting a reddish haze onto gray and black. Printing these same images directly from the Adobe software gave me results far closer to the original colors, so there must be something going on inside disclabel.
There isn't much out there to compete against this product, and I'm convinced I will be able to get this to work after much travail. I am thinking though that MacKiev's Print Shop for Macintosh might have been a wiser choice even though it costs about double what this one does.
One last thing: the software is excruciatingly slow (I'm using a 1.25 GHz G4) with large files. You'd be well-advised to select lower resolutions - thus surrendering potentially great looking CD artwork replicas - if you aren't patient with the software.