LightScribe announces 12 new CE and SMB licensees

My DVD drive has lightscribe in it...I don't even know what it is

When your writer has lightscribe feature, you can print the CD LABEL of a lightscribe CD/DVD that you can design in the program that is bundled with your writer.. just remember you can only print a LABEL in a LIGHTSCRIBE CD/DVD, you can print the label by inserting the CD/DVD upside down (meaning the readable part is facing upward)

When your writer has lightscribe feature, you can print the CD LABEL of a lightscribe CD/DVD that you can design in the program that is bundled with your writer.. just remember you can only print a LABEL in a LIGHTSCRIBE CD/DVD, you can print the label by inserting the CD/DVD upside down (meaning the readable part is facing upward)

Lightscribe is too expensive, approx .75 per dvd, and all you get is black and gold, also takes too long to process the image, about 14 minutes. Price of media will go down with these new licensees. Media does look pretty cool in the center hub.

I would recommend getting ink jet printable media and print nice full color labels directly on the CD/DVD with an epson printer. Otherwise wait for color Lightscribes that will require additional hardware. Lightscribe DVD media when used to burn movie ISO work well in standalone DVD players with a high success rate for playback.

Originally posted by c1c:

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I would recommend getting ink jet printable media and print nice full color labels directly on the CD/DVD with an epson printer. Otherwise wait for color Lightscribes that will require additional hardware. Lightscribe DVD media when used to burn movie ISO work well in standalone DVD players with a high success rate for playback.

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i use my light scribe only if i give special CDs to relatives for major events like a wedding DVD or CD

Well its good to see how they are telling us what they are branching out too.

The would do far better teaming up with a company to produce the disk cheaply... as they are to far and few between at the suppliers still and the prices are still high comparied to that of say white printable top disk.

Like c1c said.

However if the Black could be stronger at faster write speeds and the price brought down i would use it over a water soluable printing solution any day, it just looks far more professional.

I use lightscribe for backup copy of my cd disk (special ones) or dvd movies. This allow me to put my name to the disk. Avoiding anyone to take it since it is signed by me and if anyway the person take it away cannot show it to others because of the name.

Thanks chinick,if it had not been for your working demonstration of how the lightscribe system is used to mark disks, i wouldn’t have never know what it was for....

... Just to surmise ur saying that you use lightscribe so you can mark your disks to identify them later and prevent other people for saying that its not yours.

If so thank you so much for that enlightening post.

That is correct. Sometimes friends of my ask me to borrow a cd. In the past I have lost some of them (the CDs). SO i decided to make a copy of the the original and then lend it. Now I use lighstcribe disk that allow me to put my name in the face of the disk. That is all. sorry but my english is not so good.

Lightscribe is so much better than the black sharpie I've been using for years. Not as cost effective, but looks better.