Printing on Blu-Ray and DVD Media with the HP D7560

We were able to pick up the HP D7560 printer on sale this week and it has the ability to print on ink-jet printable CD, DVD and Blu-Ray media.

Getting it to work took some tweaking. We use the glabels program to create our labels and for that program to print to the media without overrun, you need to create the right size template.

The template goes into the /usr/share/glabels/templates directory on your system. We called our file cd-tray-printing-templates.xml (the extension .xml is IMPORTANT). The contents of the file is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Glabels-templates>
<Template brand="OSStorage" part="CD" size="Other" width="131mm" height="131mm" _description="Disc in Tray (Small Centre)">
<meta category="label"/>
<meta category="media"/>
<label-cd id="0" radius="2.325in" hole="28.5pt" waste="0pt">
<layout nx="1" ny="1" x0="0mm" y0="0mm" dx="4.425in" dy="4.425in"/>
<markup-margin size="9pt"/>
</Label-cd>
</Template>
</Glabels-templates>





As far as plugging in the printer, our Ubuntu 9.10 system recognized it immediately and set it up for us automatically. We changed the default print source to the CD/DVD tray so no one would forget to use that in the future.