Lightscribe DVD burners

[pontifex]

I just got a new DVD burner with lightscribe. how does that work? I assume i need specific media to use it with, right?

 

[GeeFizzleDizzle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe

 

[corkyg]

Yeah - you need special media and Lightscribe software. It is usually bundled with the drive. You first burn the data side, then when that is done, flip the disk and burn the label. I have two of them, and really like them. However!!! The label burning process is pretty slow - takes about 20 minutes.

 

[Peter]

... for a full surface image. A couple of lines of text or a small image is finished much faster than that.

 

[corkyg]

Correct! I was using the worst case scenario. It also depends on whether or not graphics are used as they are in some of the canned templates. Plain text is nominally 7 to 10 minutes.

 

[StopSign]

If you're printing text, you might as well use a Sharpee...

 

[QueBert]

Sharpee looks like crap, I don't care how nice your writing is. For text only Lightscribe is very nice, very professional looking finished disc's. Graphics can look absolutly stunning if you do it right. I have a LS burner and a ip4000. I print tons of cd's on the Canon, but LS is great too. If it was about 2x as fast I'd probably use it a lot more

To OP, if time isn't an issue, I suggest you go to the Lightscribe web site, they have a download section and have a contrast utility that will darken the labels even more. Took me about 30 minutes to do a full graphic label with the 1.2 media, but the finished disc was bad ass.

software wise, I suggest Surething 4 SE, which is a free download on Lightscribe's site. Also their site has a nice section of jpg labels you can download, I did the dragon one and it came out sweet

 

[de8212]

Is this the link, Quebert?

http://www.lightscribe.com/ideas/labelgallery.aspx?id=219

Any other downloadable lightscribe templates around?

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: de8212
Is this the link, Quebert?

http://www.lightscribe.com/ideas/labelgallery.aspx?id=219

Any other downloadable lightscribe templates around?

All the reviews around suggest that if you burn a label twice you get the peak results. Just for kicks I burned a label SIX times with the extended contrast utitility on on best quality from nero labeler(note this takes a long time) and the results were amazing...things can definitely get better if you burn more than twice.

Burned twice
Burned Six Times

The results are pretty clear and no, its not just the lighting

This is with the Samsung 183L SATA 18x burner

 

[Canai]

I am actually in the process of burning my very first LS disc... I'm on burn #4, and it just keeps getting better and better...