Can a home made CD look professional?

[Sir Jasper]

Hi again,

@ steveneddy - Thanks for your contribution.

@ Groucho Marxist - My interest concerns a professional-looking home made CD, but not in any professional (meaning commercial) use. However, whilst I am not at all artistic I have no doubt that I could use software to produce simple yet stunning artwork.

My regards

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[reiki]

stick-on labels are terrible abominations. Don't use them. If they are the slightest bit off center it can REALLY wreak havoc as the out of balance condition is exaggerated at the speed a CD spins. Go with either printable media and a disk printer or get a Lightsribe capable drive and media. Lightscribe is monochromatic whereas a disk printer prints in color. I've used both. For home use I prefer the lightscribe. I had an Epson inkjet printer that was made to also print on disk media. It worked ok, but I have grown to hate inkjets and their cartridges.

Oh and linux (Ubuntu) handled both lightscribe and the Epson just fine.

[mastablasta]

There are online services (at the moemnt i can't recall the name) that offer professional production and packaging of CD/DVD. Including wrapper. They will print it in smalll (1 pc) as well as large number (they are cheaper) and also ship it to you. They are not that expencive as i remmeber and all works by user sending them material for publishing.