Creating a Disc

With the use of the PTPublisher software, creating a disc is a three step procedure for each format, is it a data CD/DVD, video DVD or other. We just need to select files or folders, choose the picture for the disc label and hit the burn button.

To open the dialog to select the files we just need to click the “Get Files to Burn” button.

Once clicked, we find a window similar to the window we already know from our good old windows explorer. On the right bottom of the window we can see how many files have been selected and added to the project by clicking the “Add files to Project” button. We now close this dialog by clicking the “Done” button.

The next step requires that we select a label for our disc. If we already have a label created or saved on our hard disc, then we can simply add the label by clicking the “Select a Label” button. In case there is no label for our disc available we can open the SureThing CD Label software by clicking the “Create a Label” button. Besides selecting a label, we can also make some for the printing important settings regarding the used discs. Primera has already saved the settings for their suggested TuffCoat – Watershield CD/DVDs and other media Primera sells. If we like to use other types of printable discs, then we can simply enter the settings for the disc and save the settings if we like to use the settings later again.

Since we don’t have a label available we need to open the SureThing CD Label software. Before the program opens, the PTPublisher software reminds us that we have to save the label and to close the SureThing CD Label software before we can use the label.

The SureThing CD Label is also very easy to use, but we won’t look closer into it since it’s not necessarily required to use the Disc Publisher SE. 

The PTPublisher software asks us if we like to use the image to be printed on our disc and automatically adds the created label if we agree. We can now directly jump to step 3 by clicking the next button.

Here we mainly see a summary of our project and we can also define how many copies we want.

The window above opens when we click onto the “More options” button in step 3. Here we can choose/define some more options for our current job. The most important for us is the recording speed. Compared to other burning applications, the software only allows 4 different speed settings (slow, normal, fast and fastest) and not the common 2x, 4x, 6x, … This is maybe a good solution to avoid the irritation from people who have no idea which speed to choose. However, once done we only need to start the duplication process by clicking the “Go” button.

Once clicked, another status window opens. Here we find what the unit is actually doing and information about the progress of the project.

Above we see another image of the status screen, showing us that the unit is currently burning disc 3 and printing disc 2.

When all discs are finished the software gives out a message telling us that the job has finished successfully.

Like already mentioned before, this procedure is almost the same for almost each task the software is able to perform. In case it is different, then you can be sure that it’s at least as simple as the task described here.

Now let’s have a look at the printing quality of the device…