Lightscribe

[Candycab]

Anyone using this ?

I recently bought a new Lite-on 16x DVDRW from New Egg Retail box for all of $34.00 Gotta love that With Lightscribe.

Works pretty well for what it is , but its definitly not a speedy process if you want to be able to read the label.

Depending on the image contrast some dont come out too good but the people at Lightscribe have put a Contrast tool out that darkens it up quite a bit ,the downside being that it adds about 9 minutes more to the print and only works in the best quality mode. But if you dont mind the wait [ about 29 minutes ] you will get a much better looking label.


Anyway I wanted to pass this link on to anyone here who wants to use the factory origional DVD labels for their prints and these guys have a ton of them, plus some pretty cool home brew labels aswell

CD Covers

[phry]

I saw one of those lightscribe things in my local PC store and I must admit that they did look pretty good but was originally a bit cynical as to whether a print would be as good as they said. Do you have to use special discs to write the image onto?

If I get a new dvd writer soon, it'd definately be one of those now.

[Candycab]

phry said:

I saw one of those lightscribe things in my local PC store and I must admit that they did look pretty good but was originally a bit cynical as to whether a print would be as good as they said. Do you have to use special discs to write the image onto?

If I get a new dvd writer soon, it'd definately be one of those now.

They require a "Lightscribe" coated disc for both CD and DVD.

Rightnow for good media [ I use Verbatim or HP ] they average about $29.00 for a spool of 30 and $17.99 for a spool of 15.

Ofcourse thats here in the US , it wouldnt suprise me if you guys got gouged up the wazoo over there for stuff like this ? That seems to be the norm.

Price wise its not really much more than any other highend media if at all.

Retailers [ here atleast ] are starting to offer the HP DVDs at sale prices along the lines of their other media, couple that with low Burner prices and their really isnt any reason not to play with the tech if it interests you

The CDs come out alot sharper than the DVDs do since they etch right into the surface of the CD where as the DVD actually etches into the layer directly under the first transparent layer of the DVD ,so they have a sort of reflective sheen to them that the CD doesnt.

Depending on the starting image the labels can come out really good or you can tweak the image to get better results, overall it works pretty good and its fun to play with

Nero Cover Designer is actually pretty good as tools go. It has just about everything you would need to tweak the image for a better result ,or you could always use Photoshop or whatever.

Here is the burner I just grabbed if you are interested ?

Its pretty much the defacto standard as Lite-On drives go ... Definitly still the best bang for the buck.

www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=29&id=1874

You should check this out and the Lightscribe website aswell ,for lots of good info.

www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/14/labelflash_vs_lightscribe_dvd/

I thought the Lightscribe discs looked better than the Labelflash discs in that article.