01-14-2004, 12:36 AM
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LightScribe Simplifies CD/DVD Labelling
"Tired of figuring out how to neatly and efficiently label your CDs and DVDs? Hewlett-Packard has come up with a simple solution: Use the same laser that burned the data to make the label for the other side of the disc. A technology called LightScribe enables drives to burn a silk-screen-like, high-contrast label on the topside of CD or DVD media with a LightScribe dye coating. After completing a data burn, users are prompted to flip the disc over so they can burn a label onto it."
This is utterly and completely off topic, but I've so incredibly thrilled at this new technology that I just had to share it with everyone here. I'm an achiver of memories - at events, I'm the guy snapping 500 pictures, then making a Web page for everyone to remember the event. I often use Photo Story to burn a CD, and if I'm making a video I'll burn a DVD, but the entire process falls apart when it comes to labelling. I'll save my uber-rant on CD/DVD labelling hell for Digital Media Thoughts, but suffice it to say that this technology is something I've only dreamt about, and I'll pay almost any amount of money to obtain one of these drives when they come out because it represents the "last mile" in creating professional-looking memories, and that's incredibly valuable to me - worth paying a little extra for media as well. Huge kudos to HP for coming up with something so innovative!
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01-14-2004, 12:45 AM
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I would literally wait a year or so before doing this and see if it affects the CDs. See http://www.informationweek.com/story...5800263&pgno=1 to see how some lables can destroy CD-Rs after as little as 6 months.
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01-14-2004, 12:45 AM
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Philosopher
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Interesting. Looks like a natural progression from burning an image onto the extra space on the data side of a disc.
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01-14-2004, 12:56 AM
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01-14-2004, 01:01 AM
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Originally Posted by sponge
Interesting. Looks like a natural progression from burning an image onto the extra space on the data side of a disc.
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Yes, it's similar in concept to the Toshiba t@atoo (or whatever it was called), but this one makes much more sense, because you have the full capacity of the disc available to you.
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01-14-2004, 01:18 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2004
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How about full color?
If you got that excited over this drive/printer - imagine full color!
Here is a printer that can print directly onto a CD or DVD (as opposed to printing on a label).
I believe there are other printers that can do the same - this is just a really fancy one. After all, if you have to go through the trouble to take the disk out and flip it over, why not just stick it in the printer and get a full color image?
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01-14-2004, 01:29 AM
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Re: How about full color?
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Originally Posted by B
If you got that excited over this drive/printer - imagine full color!
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I've seent those before (they've been out for over a year now I think), but they never made me bite. Ink costs being what they are, I think burning an image directly onto a CD looks classier, and it should last longer as well. Let's hope this technology lives up to my expectations! :-)
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01-14-2004, 01:37 AM
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Philosopher
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Besides...you need special "inkjet-writable" CDs to be able to use the printer
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01-14-2004, 01:48 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Lite scribe
But check again, you need special Light Scribe media; cds & dvds to print on directly. Not simply anu media.
Had to be a gotcha :evil:
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01-14-2004, 01:50 AM
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Ponderer
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Re: How about full color?
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Originally Posted by B
If you got that excited over this drive/printer - imagine full color!
Here is a printer that can print directly onto a CD or DVD (as opposed to printing on a label).
I believe there are other printers that can do the same - this is just a really fancy one. After all, if you have to go through the trouble to take the disk out and flip it over, why not just stick it in the printer and get a full color image? |
We have one of these in my office and if you lick you finger and wipe it across the image it rubs off. :?
-- Robert
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