[longliving]

I'm looking for software that can allow you to make CD inlays like this. I'm only using these as an example.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISA...m=160803836372

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-BEST-O...item25718746c2

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MARTINA-TO...item25718746c7

It's like a front and back cover folded over and they fit easily inside a PVC sleeve. Itunes does these kinds of covers but they only allow you to print the front artwork and the tracklist. I want something like those CDs that lets me put my own front cover and type the tracklist anyway I want at the back. I know I could use Nero and print out to separate inlays but I like the way record labels do it for promotional CDs nowadays, it looks smart, it wraps around the CD and it's tidy. I've been thinking about it for a while now and have looked online at various softwares but still can't find one that does this kind of inlay. If itunes does a variation of it surely it can't be that hard to do.

Also if you look at those CDs, how do you think they print onto the disc like that? Do you think they use some kind of printer that prints on discs or a lightscribe drive?

[alan1302]

You can get inkjet printers that print on to special CDs - if the ones in the attached are not a copy then they would have probably been done via screen prining or tampo presing

[Si_Crewe]

You don't really need that sort of thing any more, now that printers can print to an accurate scale.

You can just use MS Visio, for example, to draw a series of boxes of the correct size then fill them with whatever text and images you want.

As for the discs, themselves, you can buy printable CDs and DVDs and then you just drop them straight into a compatible printer to print onto them.
My Canon IP4000, for example, comes with a plastic tray which you can drop a CD into then shove it into the printer to print onto it.
All such printers will come with suitable software.

Also, there's lightscribe CDs which allow you to burn images onto the other side of the disk.

[plugs13amp]

best free one I've found is CdCoverCreator .

very comprehensive, knows about lots of manufacturers different inlays, so it pretty much works with whatever you can purchase, talks to CDDBs if you're copying CDs for the car etc, saving effort typing tracklists and stuff.