LightScribe works by burning an image into the front of a CD/DVD disc in a similar way the laser burns the data onto the data side. Now you can have an image label for your CD/DVD without needing a stick-on label or cd printer.

• Ideal for: Weddings, Music, Videos, Home Movies, Gifts, Photography, Travel, Business.
• The laser causes the special coating change colour and thus produce the image.
• The (laser) light sensitive coating is why you need special LightScribe compatible media.
• Disc coatings can vary in colours giving different results.
  (Most people use the standard gold coating)
• See below for more information.

 

LightScribe software

To design your label and control the burning of the image. We recommend that you use the Nero CoverDesigner3 which is included in the NERO 8 Burning Suite software package.

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LIghtScribe Media

With the special coating on the label side. We recommend Verbatim CD and DVD media.

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LightScribe compatible writer

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High Volume / colour user?

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Quality vs. Time

Quality in terms of contrast is dependant on speed.

The higher quality selected the longer it will take to burn the image for example anywhere from just a few minutes to say 20min per disk.

A LightScribe label is created in grayscale, similar to a black and white photograph so the overall effect also depends on the background colour of the disk (several background colours are available).

The time needed will vary from drive to drive and the complexity of the image.

Disc example.

Colour?

We see in the not to distant future full colour (color for our US friends) media. This may be achieved by having alternate tracks of Red/Blue/Green and having the laser pick out the pixels required to make any colour.

COLOR LIGHTSCRIBE IS NOT AVAILABLE YET!
We will keep you posted if you bookmark this page.

High Volume / colour user?

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