Lightscribe

[makaveli]

I have a Lightscribe DVD drive.. and well, LS media are pretty pricey, i had one disc, and printed a DVD cover on it and have to say was fairly impressed.

thing is i have heard that printable (white face) DVD media will also work

can anyone here confirm or deny this or offer any tips

 

cheers

[TCH-Tim]

I use a Sharpie. Cheap and reliable.

[TCH-Don]

I believe there is a special bar code on the lightscribe discs

so the lable mode will not work without a lightscribe disc.

[makaveli]

I use a Sharpie. Cheap and reliable.

 

that sounds a like an american term im guessing a marker pen?? or am i totally wrong..

i like the LS discs for submitting university work or web design projects looks nicer than "my dvd - may 2006" scribbled on in red pen

 

and Don, Barcodes, do you mean kind of embedded into the disc, and only readable by the drive?

 

it was £8 for 25 standard DVD+R for me

it costs £10 for 5 Lightscrive (approx) and thats pretty expensive

(they are HP ones mind)

[stevevan]

Yes...a Sharpie is a brand name for a permanent marker. I too have a Lightscribe drive...never gotten around to using it yet, tho'!

[makaveli]

what a guess,

i'll be adopted by america yet

 

ive used mine once, liek i say its too pricey to make backups of your movies and mp3's etc and other data, and burn a label ( a photo label can take ~20 mins)

so like i say it's kept to important things, like when i design DVD's with menus and what not for companies. did one last year for a Travel Companys (a TCH customer by my referal )

and i did indeed "sharpie" my label on, how much nicer woulld a "silkscreen" one of been

then i didnt know what lightscribe was mind, and i only bought the drive a month ago, and well, im glad i did, i used to have a external CDRW drive and have now got dual DVD writerson the laptop. or a DVD reader and copier on the desktop.

ive rescued some old dvd's that were about to die from scratches

[Deverill]

We put the sermons on CD at my church and had a lightscribe drive and our Pastor wanted to use it to look nice, but it took so doggone long to print just one label we scrapped it.

 

We ended up with a CD/DVD label printer. It uses thermal transfer to print from a waxy ribbon onto the surface of the blank CD. We get ones from Kingdom that have absolutely no label at all, including manufacturer stuff, and print our own ink labels that way. No sticky paper labels and gadgets to apply them, just click the CD into the printer and wait a bit. I think it's 2 mins for all 4 sections to print. WAY faster than the lightscribe.

 

I do not know of any other discs that will work in that drive, but don't take my word for it. At 20 mins per label we gave up before even looking for alternate sources.