Original-look iomega zip disk OS installers.

[Danamania]

Perhaps not so useful or reliable at the time, but putting fresh installs with installer images of the old OSs on zip disks (or other removable storage) when you have a couple hundred zip disks and a bunch of drives laying around is *really* convenient.

Working in print helps too, to give it a look that fits in...

 

[bibilit]

Its gorgeous, thanks for sharing.

Probably the sort of work which can only be done with the appropriate material and software only.

 

[galgot]

Yeah, it's beautiful !

I would sure find some use to these...

Do you plan to release the printable files ?

 

[techknight]

Thats badass. 

 

[tanaquil]

Those are beautiful! I too would love printable files if you ever feel like sharing.

 

[Danamania]

Sure thing. The labels, set up for 60x50mm. I've yet to do an 8.1, 8.6 or 9.x though.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5334905/Zip%20labels%20608%2071%20753.pdf

And the single zip jewel case insert; print and score/fold on the dotted lines. I used a 200gsm satin, though 170 would work a little more like the original Iomega inserts I have here.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5334905/Zip%20Jewel%20Case%20insert%2071.pdf

Forgive any typos in the insert, I wanted to bang one out to see how it fit/felt, mostly. I'd bet they're in there. Also, images were taken from eBay auctions for the 7.1 personal upgrade kit, and are a bit rubbish .

Ideally I'd move some bits around to suit the visibility (or lack of) of parts of the back of the case too, but later.

 

[galgot]

Thank you !

 

[Macdrone]

Those are amazing.  Are they the installers or are they installed on those disks?

 

[omidimo]

Awesome work! Well done!

 

[tanaquil]

Thank you for the upload! Do you use a color laser to print the labels, or an inkjet?

 

[CC_333]

Can these be used with Avery Zip disk labels?

I don't see why not, but I want to make certain.

c

 

[slomacuser]

Very nice labels!

 

[Danamania]

Can these be used with Avery Zip disk labels?

I can't see any reason why not - looks like those are just 1mm higher (which would make them fit the space a little better than mine) - though they have really rounded corners. http://www.amazon.com/white-labels-disks-5925-LASER/dp/B004Q23AY6

If you scale mine up about 1% they should cover the whole area just peachy!.

 

[MJ313]

Holy Moly. Those look incredible.

 

[ScutBoy]

Sweet!

 

[CC_333]

Excellent! I might look into doing this, as I believe I have some Avery Zip labels somewhere....

Do you know what font you used (some variant of Apple Garamond, I'm assuming)?

c

 

[galgot]

Yes Apple garamond Light, opened the pdf in Illustrator and it cried I didn't had it.

But it's easy to find.

 

[CC_333]

Yeah, I just installed it on my machine, so I'm good there.

OK, I'll take a look at it. Someday soon....

c

 

[Danamania]

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