Disc Label Property Page
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This page is where the disc (label) printing is specified. This page also allows the user to customize the layout of the contents on the label. To change the layout, double-click on the picture of the disc, or click the Edit Layout… button. This will bring up a larger WYSIWYG layout of the disc label on which the text and graphics can be added, moved or removed. Font and text color can also be modified as well. When writing multiple discs as specified on the Burn Properties Page, the number of copies indicated there will be the number of disc labels printed.  
 
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·Print the DVD disc label – this option controls whether a disc label will be printed as part of the project.  
 
·Use *.PRN file – this option allows for a specifically prepared *.PRN file to be used instead of the disc layout shown in the dialog above. In fact if this option is checked, irrelevant options will be hidden.  
 
·Use Duplicator Printer – is only enabled if a duplicator is specified on the Burn page. If this option is specified, a paper label will not be printed but the duplicator will be used to print directly onto the disc surface. Furthermore, this option will control if and what is printed on the duplicator even though it is not part of the Burn page.  
 
·Print ProjectID in margin – this option is enabled when not printing to a duplicator. In other words, it is enabled when a Windows printer is selected by clicking on the 'Click to select printer...' button. When this option is used for printing on paper labels, it is useful to have the ProjectID printed on the label page. If printing directly to a disc printer, you will probably not want this option selected.  
 
·Choose Paper Stock – this drop down list box allows the selection of pre-programmed page layouts as well as a persistent user definable layout. This selection simply controls the three edit fields which specifies the location and size of the label relative to the top and left edges of the paper. Measurements are specified in millimeters. The three fields can be manually edited causing the list box to show "Changed Settings". If the Save As Custom button is pressed, the list box will show "Custom Disc Label", which will retain those settings until Save As Custom is pressed again with different settings.  
 
·Select Printer/Properties – this button should be used to select a printer if printing on paper labels. When a printer is selected, the paper or print quality settings should also be set base on the type of paper being used. These settings will be saved as part of the project and need not be reset unless a different printer is being selected.  
 
·Print Now – can be used for testing the print layout. It can also be used to print a single disc label for a previously executed project.  
 
·Background bitmap for the disc – this optional field allows a full background bitmap to be specified for the disc label printing. This bitmap will of course be behind any text or other graphics that are printed on the label. Currently the format of this file must be a 24 bit bmp file.  

Duplicator Options
 
If a robotic duplicator is selected on the DVD Writing Property Page, this Disc Label property page will have an additional checkbox called 'Use Duplicator Printer' as shown below. If this box is checked, the options on the page will appear different depending on the duplicator model chosen. Furthermore, if this option is checked, the page will change even more such as loosing the paper stock and page offset options. The disc layout/editor and background bitmap are still available since that determines what will be printed on the disc.  
 
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With the BTW Option  
 
If a duplicator is chosen which can use a btw merge file, the application's own disc layout editor will not be used. The user supplied *.btw file will dictate the disc label design. Fields can be added to the btw file as is shown in the provided sample test_merge.btw in the print directory so that text fields such as title, subtitle and date can be merged into the btw file at the time of printing on the disc. The merge file should probably be specified using UNC pathing since the duplicator is usually connected to a different system on the network.  
 
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Without the BTW Option  
 
If the btw option is not chosen, the application's disc layout editor can be used to design the label, except that the page offsets are not needed. The printer to be selected in this case is the printer being used by the robotic duplicator. In order for this to work, it assumes the duplicator has a windows based print driver that can be installed on the local system. One of the ways this can be done is to share the printer from the duplicator controller system, and then connect to it from the local system. This will install the duplicator's printer as a network available system. We will not be printing directly to the printer, but we will use the print driver to create a prn file of our disc label which will then be sent to the robotic duplicator/printer system.  
 
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