Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker - Manual (Page 23)

it's supposed to, you can use this section to tell the program to always print labels one
millimeter to the left of where they'd normally go, which will cancel out the printer's imprecision
and make things print just where they ought to be.
Before you make any adjustments via this dialog, we'd like to make two important
recommendations:
Recommendation #1: Run the Printer Calibration Wizard first! This wizard will print a
calibration test sheet to help you determine what settings you need in this dialog -- and in fact,
you can enter them there instead, and you may never actually have to launch this dialog at all.
You can get to the Printer Calibration Wizard from the "File" menu.
Recommendation #2: If you've launched this dialog to fix the alignment for printing
printable discs, stop! Go to the Edit Paper/Printer Templates dialog instead. The alignment
error a printer has for printing paper from a paper tray and for printing on a CD that's fed into
the printer via a CD tray is almost never the same, so applying the same alignment
adjustments to both is likely to cause problems.
You can set alignment settings exclusively for your CD tray at the Edit Paper/Printer Templates
dialog, and, thanks to the "Don't apply to printable discs" checkbox on this dialog, you can
make alignment settings exclusively for paper on this dialog, and they'll never interfere with
each other. You can also, of course, make alignment adjustments for particular paper types
from the Edit Paper/Printer Templates dialog (keep in mind that changes made there will apply
to any printer you print that paper in, whereas changes in this dialog only apply to a particular
printer.) You can launch the Edit Paper/Printer Templates dialog from the "File" menu.
"Printer Offsets" controls:
Move labels by: There's one of these sections each for horizontal and vertical paper
alignment. Enter the amount of space, in millimeters, by which you need to move labels
horizontally and vertically, respectively, for the printer you've chosen.
To the left/To the right: Lets you select the direction in which to correct your printer's
horizontal printing errors. If your printer always prints stuff too far to the right, check the "To the
left" box. If it always prints too far to the left, check the "To the right" box.
Up/Down: Lets you select the direction in which to correct your printer's vertical printing errors.
If your printer always prints stuff too far down the page, check the "Up" box. If if prints too high,
check the "Down" box.
Don't apply to printable discs: If this box is checked, the printer-alignment settings you make
here will be ignored when you're printing on printable discs. We recommend checking this
option. The printer alignment error that occurs when printing on paper from a paper tray is
highly unlikely to be identical to any printer alignment error that occurs when you're printing on
a CD tray inserted into the printer, so using the same settings for both is likely to create as
many problems as it solves. We recommend using the alignment settings on this dialog to
account for paper-related alignment errors, and using the Edit Paper/Printer Templates dialog
(which you can launch from the File menu) to account for any printable-disc alignment error.
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