19Echo Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 In my heday of the 80's i got really lazy and never wrote anything on the labels and now fast forward a couple of decades, i'm going thru the hundreds of floppies trying to label them correctly. Just wondering if there was any type of template that anyone ever came up with atari art work before i just fabricate my own. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 You could scan one of the old APX labels and edit it with photoshop to include your custom titling information.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Guitarman Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Here is an XE Term label I did. Here it is without the program title and other extra stuff If you need an editable file, let me know what program you're using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19Echo Posted February 10, 2011 Author Share Posted February 10, 2011 nice........ what program did you use for this Here is an XE Term label I did. Here it is without the program title and other extra stuff If you need an editable file, let me know what program you're using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Guitarman Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 CorelDraw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fibrewire Posted April 9, 2011 Share Posted April 9, 2011 anyone know if there is an Avery label # for 5.25 floppy disk labels? EDIT: Found it - Avery 5197 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillC Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 anyone know if there is an Avery label # for 5.25 floppy disk labels? EDIT: Found it - Avery 5197 An alternative supplier for Avery 5197 compatible labels is Online Labels, they offer choice of material, color and finish. They even offer gold foil, silver foil and weatherproof silver polyester material with a brushed silver finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Here are some that I did in 300dpi using photoshop: printed size: 4.75" x 1.50" FLOPPYLABEL525.bmp . . printed size: 2.75" x 2.00" FLOPPYLABEL35.bmp . . Don't use the .jpg previews shown in this post, they are inferior quality. Download the .bmp attatchments. They are lossless bitmap files. Perhaps Albert can change the settings on the forum so that it will display .bmp files in posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Guitarman Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Here are some that I did in 300dpi using photoshop: printed size: 4.75" x 1.50" FLOPPYLABEL525.bmp . . printed size: 2.75" x 2.00" FLOPPYLABEL35.bmp . . Don't use the .jpg previews shown in this post, they are inferior quality. Download the .bmp attatchments. They are lossless bitmap files. Perhaps Albert can change the settings on the forum so that it will display .bmp files in posts. Those look nice!!! The ones I did were replicas of the mini label that Atari put in the upper left corner of most of the Atari supplied driver and DOS disks. If anyone wants BMP versions of those, let me know. I can post them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 All of your stuff looks nice! Where/what kind of labels do you guys use? Any kind to avoid? You just put them in an inkjet printer as single sheets? Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Guitarman Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 I used a standard Avery 5160 1"x2.5/8" address label for the Atari Mini label. You just make sure that the black area on the top and sides of the label bleed off the edge of the label a bit. That way it is black all the way to the edge when you peel the label off the sheet. I think the 1"x4" are the closest for the full 5.25 label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEtalGuy66 Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 I am not too picky. My main criteria for a label is that it doesnt come off and get the disk stuck in the drive, and that the ink doesnt smear. Im not too concerned with glossy appearance or anything like that. I guess you can get labels professionally printed, or even get glossy "photo quality" labels for inkjet printers.. I use the free labels I get from Fedex, and then just cut them to size after I print them. They take up half an 8.5x11 page, and they are free.. I havent had them come off of a disk yet. I guess I have some that I did 5 years ago that way and they still havent come off.. I'll let you know in another 10 years how they did long-term.. Hey, by the way.. Anyone who feels so inclined, please scan the labels of your original floppies in at least 300dpi, and upload them here, so those of us who are "restoring our collections" can use them to print new ones (for replacement labels on our own originally purchased, legally owned disks that the labels have fallen off of.) Thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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