Anyone got LightScribe?

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It scratches disks with a laser beam....
Cool stuff, but ya gots to buy expensive media to make it work, thankfully, it uses regular disks too, which is what I suspect most buyers use.
 
if you are wanting an image on the back of your disc, get a printer that prints on discs. The Lightscribe technology is a novel idea, but financially a waste of money. My dad bought a Epson R200, and the disks looks really good. As well as the printable media is much cheaper. My cousin on the other hand has a lightscribe that costs $1 a disc $.50 on sale and the discs dont look half as good, and they take forever to get the image on them. He burned one yesterday and the image took half an hour. I myself liked the idea of lightscribe till i found out the cost. Now i am looking into getting one of the Epson's that print on discs. The R200 was pulling about 60-70 on ebay. And the printable media I saw at Compusa on sale for $30 for 100 pack. Much cheaper and better looking.
 
Very nice feature. Makes disks look professional. Takes awhile to write an image. However, if your just going to burn a stolen dvd rip, I suggest using a plain ole' black sharpie. I would think it gets kind of expensive writing hundreds of movies to lightscribe media.
 
I agree with Liquidx. I have a lightscribe burner and a printer that can print labels onto discs. The printed labels look fantastic (I think I have an Epson r200, too) and the lightscribed discs look cheap and crappy in comparison. Printable media is a bit cheaper, though you have to pay for the ink.
Lightscribe also takes forever! As in 30 minutes for a moderately detailed image. Printer = 2 minutes max.


Summary: Lightscribe sux the biggie.
 
I got HP LightScribe DVD Rom and need special disks and shitty colors but details are good. No colors and only takes 5 ~ 10 mins to do.

To do that, Just Insert a CD, Backward into the LightScribe CD Rom and use a software like Sonic Express Labeler and choose image n text in library.
 
lightscribe is good,no ink to buy,epson printer is cheap but,the ink itself will cost you,your arm and leg and uses a lot of ink.
 
Learn how to draw creatively with a permanant marker. Use different colours too.

I played with LightScribe on my DW1640 once on regular disk and the result looks shittah.
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or some fancy stickers u can get at a friendly Neighborhood Walgreens


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Not true, you might be a young start up developer or musician, and want to make a nice presentation on your software/music to pitch it to prospective investors... plenty of other uses for the technology, and in time it might develop into a more refined and useful utility to have, especially if it prints at the speed of laser printers, and worked on every disk type...
 
Not true, you might be a young start up developer or musician, and want to make a nice presentation on your software/music to pitch it to prospective investors... plenty of other uses for the technology, and in time it might develop into a more refined and useful utility to have, especially if it prints at the speed of laser printers, and worked on every disk type...
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but think of the stickers !!
 
Light scribe is the shiznit. My DVDs look awesome.

Please Note though, that the High Quality option means around 20 minutes to burn a label. Labels are grayscale only, but you're only limuted by your ability with photoshop. The lightscribe software works a treat too.

Bull-freaking-shit about expensive media: here In New Zealand, where stuff costs a fortune, I buy (retail!) 20 single layer DVDs with lightscribe labels for less than $40 NZ (around $30 US).

Thoroughly recommedn Lightscribe: it's a great product.

Best to get the stand alone USB2.0 burner though - as you'll want to move it, I guarantee it!
 
if you are wanting an image on the back of your disc, get a printer that prints on discs. The Lightscribe technology is a novel idea, but financially a waste of money. My dad bought a Epson R200, and the disks looks really good. As well as the printable media is much cheaper. My cousin on the other hand has a lightscribe that costs $1 a disc $.50 on sale and the discs dont look half as good, and they take forever to get the image on them. He burned one yesterday and the image took half an hour. I myself liked the idea of lightscribe till i found out the cost. Now i am looking into getting one of the Epson's that print on discs. The R200 was pulling about 60-70 on ebay. And the printable media I saw at Compusa on sale for $30 for 100 pack. Much cheaper and better looking.
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You can get LS discs for under 30 cents each if you shop around. I have an LG that takes 24 minutes in high quality mode and I think 16 in low. The key is to learn what kind of image setup works with the technique - I've gotten some beauties. I've seen LS DVD burners for under $40. The printable stuff can look real good, but some models scratch the discs during printing and that's bad news.
 
Not true, you might be a young start up developer or musician, and want to make a nice presentation on your software/music to pitch it to prospective investors... plenty of other uses for the technology, and in time it might develop into a more refined and useful utility to have, especially if it prints at the speed of laser printers, and worked on every disk type...
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I agree with you....lightscribe is not for most people though. For an important CD/DVD, it is a really good idea to have lightscribe.
 
:roll: Just bought a BenQ LightScribe drive from Newegg. Came with Nero lightscribe software. 8) Found a web site that gave me a Good Overview and helped me get on my way 😀 . At first I got a little confused: , but with the info from the web site I made my way through it and burned my first music cd 8) , with a downloaded image pic scribed on the back 😛 found . Process was cumbersome, but the end product was pro looking 8) cd. As for cost of lightscribe media, they are high, but you can find them at Wal-Mart for a reasonable price. Also, CompUSA puts them on sale sometimes. Although, I wouldn't use it all the time, but I can see a good use for it when putting together photos DVD, hunting/fishing pic DVD, etc. Either way, price at Newegg was great, drive works good, process tedious, but worth it 😀
Here is the URL website that will give you DETAIL on the Lightscribe process 8)

http://www.lightscribe.com/gettingstarted/index.aspx?id=95


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