Christiern Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Yesterday I installed in my main Mac a double layer DVD drive that features LightScribe. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes neatly labeled CDs and DVDs. In case you are not familiar with the technology, it allows you to create high resolution label designs and burn them into the disc. You flip the disc over, push the print button, and the drive gives you something like this (photo does not really do justice to the label: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 That looks terrific! Now we can ALL get into bootlegging--just kidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 Yesterday I installed in my main Mac a double layer DVD drive that features LightScribe. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes neatly labeled CDs and DVDs. In case you are not familiar with the technology, it allows you to create high resolution label designs and burn them into the disc. You flip the disc over, push the print button, and the drive gives you something like this (photo does not really do justice to the label: Is this the DVR 108 Drive? I've been putting off upgrading until some compatibility issues are taken care of. Been a bit wary of something that actually burns an image into the disc, so I've been happily staying with the Epson R800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted April 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 The drive I bought is a DVD +-RW 16x4x16 Double Layer by LaCie. It will burn the 8.5GB DVDs. it requires special discs for the printing part (not expensive) and the surface is completely smooth after printing, so I wouldn't worry about burning into the signal side. More on it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted April 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 Still loving this drive ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted April 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 I'm still enthusiastically recommending a LightScribe drive ... here's a label I made today. I won't bother you with more as I keep on burning the backsides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 a question i've had, can you burn a cdr w/o using the "light scribe cdrs", just using regular cdrs thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 (edited) a question i've had, can you burn a cdr w/o using the "light scribe cdrs", just using regular cdrs With a Lightscribe drive, you can write data on regular CD-Rs and DVD-R media, but if you want to label them with the drive you need Lightscribe-cabable discs. Edited May 17, 2006 by Claude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neveronfriday Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 (edited) Does all of this have any detrimental effects on the discs burned? Must be quite a strain on the surface. Any online links where this apspect (longevity) is maybe discussed in more detail? What Christiern posted above looks really cool, and I might give that kind of drive a shot if I was sure the discs lasted as long (or as short) as any other (better) burnable. My current setup, printing on high quality (Taiyo Yuden) printables is just a drag half the time. Edited May 17, 2006 by neveronfriday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 (edited) http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?sk...d=1134703573567 bestbuy has an HP external DVD / CD burner on sale this week Edited May 17, 2006 by Soulstation1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 newegg.com is the best place to buy computer hardware. They have 12 internal Lightscribe drives available right now. I actually just installed a Lite-On SHM-165H6S burner last week. Now all I need is some media and I'll give this a try. BTW, if you order from newegg.com, I'd avoid the OEM stuff if you can. Works fine and is cheaper, but is often unsupported because it was not made to be sold outside of a system. I bought the retail version and it was only $4 more. Worth it just for the software. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted May 18, 2006 Report Share Posted May 18, 2006 I bought a Compaq a few months ago that has a LightScribe burner in it. To be honest......I've never tried that feature. It came with one LS compatible disk, but just haven't gotten around to using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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