I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it! GOT IT!!!!!
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I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it! GOT IT!!!!!
Anyone heard of LightScribe yet? Directly burn labels to DVDs and CDs. Anyone other than WillWren, that is.....
Drives start at $99.99 (that I can find locally). Disks are not much more expensive than regular printable CDS/DVDs.
The only bad parts I can find digging around are:
Only supports grayscale printing (but rumors of CMY printing are out there)
Takes about 28 minutes to print the label. But, since it is a burned label, it will never smudge, and the site I found that tested them, CDRinfo.com makes it sound like you gotta really abuse them to cause any damage to the label.
Depending on how much overtime is on my check, I may have one of these drives this weekend!!
LightScribe was conceived by an HP engineer in Corvallis, Oregon, and brought to market through the joint design efforts of HP'* imaging and optical storage divisions. LightScribe is a new technology that enables burner itself to print the user'* custom label design directly on the disc. The whole process is done by the burner without the need to have any other kind of media printing equipment. So, you simply burn your data as you normally do onto the disc and when finished, flip the disc over to burn silkscreen-quality labels on the other side.
The only bad parts I can find digging around are:
Only supports grayscale printing (but rumors of CMY printing are out there)
Takes about 28 minutes to print the label. But, since it is a burned label, it will never smudge, and the site I found that tested them, CDRinfo.com makes it sound like you gotta really abuse them to cause any damage to the label.
Depending on how much overtime is on my check, I may have one of these drives this weekend!!
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Re: I want it! I want it! I want it! I want it!
Originally Posted by Hans
Originally Posted by MOS95B
LightScribe was conceived by an HP engineer in Corvallis, Oregon
hmm wonder who that person was
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Originally Posted by harofreak00
ummm totally not worth it... IMO..
grayscale... 28 min... ???
i like my sharpie
grayscale... 28 min... ???
i like my sharpie
Epson R200 - Prints directly to printable CDs.
That does make the idea of a LightScribe drive a bit silly, but it'* just so dang cool!!!!
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Here'* an example of what I can do now --
and here'* what I wanna do....
Originally Posted by MOS95B
So far, so good. Finally got around to printing a disk.
Is it live or is ti MOS??
A little mist with a high gloss clear coat would probably help some. But still pretty dang cool...
Is it live or is ti MOS??
A little mist with a high gloss clear coat would probably help some. But still pretty dang cool...
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Interesting trivial fact here.
I did some of the initial development on Lightscribe before the name was ever picked for it. Over 2 years ago.
I still have the original CD used. It had thermal fax paper applied before laser marking. 2 years from R&D to a marketable product is pretty fast. I also built the fixture we used to laser scribe encoder marks on the CD Drive hub for speed feedback used in the marking firmware.
Lightscribe is still an active project here. More improvements will be coming with newer models.
I did some of the initial development on Lightscribe before the name was ever picked for it. Over 2 years ago.
I still have the original CD used. It had thermal fax paper applied before laser marking. 2 years from R&D to a marketable product is pretty fast. I also built the fixture we used to laser scribe encoder marks on the CD Drive hub for speed feedback used in the marking firmware.
Lightscribe is still an active project here. More improvements will be coming with newer models.
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Y'all did a good job from everything I've read (still 
hoping for that discount)
But, are you saying I should wait?? And the rumours of color support???
Dish, man!! Dish!!
hoping for that discount)But, are you saying I should wait?? And the rumours of color support???
Dish, man!! Dish!!