Re: Printing on CD label --LightScribe
I thought listers might be interested in this opinion from a computer sales and service guy that I use about the Lite Scribe. function. Hi Peter, No. The drives I and most people use are not Lightscribe enabled I can get them but the technology is all but dead see the following reasons 1, Burners are around $20 more. 2, Disks are more than double the price of inkjet printable disks. 3, Most mid range inkjet printers print directly to disks and can be very colorful and easy to read. 3, Lightscribed disks are hard to read, one shade of silver or gold. 4, Your canon MP760 prints directly to inkjet disks now for free Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Printing on CD label --LightScribe
Your source is wrong on a couple of counts. First disks are not so expensive as he indicates. Second, you can get disks in a variety of colors and the labels are not at all difficult to read. If you have ink jet printable technology with you printer, that is fine, but it generally comes at a cost. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Scanlon Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:49 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Printing on CD label --LightScribe I thought listers might be interested in this opinion from a computer sales and service guy that I use about the Lite Scribe. function. Hi Peter, No. The drives I and most people use are not Lightscribe enabled I can get them but the technology is all but dead see the following reasons 1, Burners are around $20 more. 2, Disks are more than double the price of inkjet printable disks. 3, Most mid range inkjet printers print directly to disks and can be very colorful and easy to read. 3, Lightscribed disks are hard to read, one shade of silver or gold. 4, Your canon MP760 prints directly to inkjet disks now for free Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Printing on CD label --LightScribe
Peter and Gary, You've been pointed to Chip Orange's excellent template for printing Avory cd/dvd labels in Word. However, that does not actually print on the cd or dvd. The LightScribe technology allows one to burn a simple or quite elaborate label on the label side of a LightScribe enabled disk with the appropriate software and a LightScribe enabled cd/dvd burner. Essentially, you burn the music or data to your disk using whatever program you are accustomed to using. When that is done, flip the disk over in the burner and go into your labelling program. There are free stand alone programs that you can get at http://www.lightscribe.org Or many cd burning programs such as Nero or Roxio include LightScribe labelling in their laebl creation sub-programs. I use a simple stand alone program from the LightScribe site. You enter the program, fill into a couple fields of information i.e. artist and disk name, hit next and then burn label and in a couple of minutes you have a print quality label on the disk. As mentioned about, you need a LightScribe enabled burner and LightScribe enabled disk. They are virtually the same cost as regular high quality disks. There was a compeating technology released at the same time as LightScribe, but I haven't heard anything more about it in the last couple of years. Clifford -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Scanlon Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:02 AM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Printing on CD label Some time ago on this or some other list I am on I saw info about a Jaws script or possibly a MS Word macro to help produce labels on the actual CD. Anyone know about this. Or is there an accessble program for this. My Cannon printer allows this, but the program is not really accessible. Peter Scanlon Phone Home: +61 03 9878 3623 Phone work: +61 03 8684 6160 Mobile: 0407 956 110 Keep rockin' Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
