Acoustica CD/DVD Label Maker - Manual (Page 75)

* If the alignment-test sheet indicates that your alignment is much worse than you expected,
make sure you checked the correct paper-size option before you printed the sheet. The paper
size that the wizard thinks you printed on will be noted near the top-left corner of the alignment
test sheet. If you checked the A4 box but inserted a sheet of letter paper, for instance, the
alignment sheet will obviously be off center.
* Some printers will feed differently depending on the paper thickness. If you want to be
absolutely sure you've got your alignment as accurate as possible, try printing the test sheet
on a sheet of your actual label paper. This will cost you a sheet of your label paper, of course,
so you may prefer to wait and see first whether you were able to compensate for your printer's
alignment just by printing the test sheet on plain paper. If you do decide to print an alignment
sheet on a sheet of label paper, make sure you've checked the right paper size setting. In
particular, lots of DVD-case-cover sheets use A4 paper. If you're used to printing on letter-
sized paper, measure your DVD cover paper before you print an alignment test sheet on it to
make sure you know what size it is.
* Some printers just don't have consistent alignment. One printout will be off in one direction,
and another will be off in a different direction. You can test for this by setting the "Number of
Copies" control on the Test-Sheet page of the wizard to print multiple copies of the sheet. If
each sheet has a different alignment error, you probably can't make alignment adjustments
that will always work. Your best bet is probably to enter an average value on this page and
then try to compensate for the printer's inconsistency with the stretch settings in the Printer
Alignment dialog (accessible by clicking the "Alignment" button on the Print dialog). Acoustica
CD/DVD Label Maker defaults to a stretch setting of two millimeters, which means that a label
you print will be two millimeters taller and two millimeters wider than the actual size of the label
on the sheet, in the hopes that this extra bleed area will prevent minor alignment problems
from causing edges of the label not to get printed on. If your printer is a schizophrenic wreck
and displays wildly different alignments from sheet to sheet, you might need to increase this
value.
* Since this wizard works by printing calibration tests on paper, it works well for handling
alignment errors on label paper, but isn't suited for handling alignment errors for CD trays that
you insert into your printer for printing directly onto printable CDs. To align your printable CDs,
try using the "Edit Paper Templates" Dialog, which you can access from the "File" menu.
Printer Alignment Wizard Intro Page
Printer Alignment Wizard Test-Sheet Page
Printer Alignment Wizard Finish Page
Help Contents
The Printer Calibration Wizard: Finish Page
I f you got this far, you've finished the calibration wizard. Congratulations! We had every
confidence that you'd arrive.
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