Question on using lightscribe to print DVD label

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I am a new user of the lightscribe method of labeling disks. My Epson
R320 printer is crapping out, so I thought I would try a different
method that did not require a printer. So I bought a LG lightscribe
SATA 22X DVD Burner (OEM).

What I find is that I can't print color labels with a color graphic.
The results I am getting are not true B/W, but sort of a sepia. I
have tried NERO 7 and Acoustica (DEMOS).

So. I am thinking, did I mis-understand something? Will lightscribe
printing even produce colors? Or am I missing a setting or two in the
programs? Are the DEMO copies of the programs short this function? Is
the problem the drive and/or its driver?

After four tries, I figure I should ask, before I go any further.

Thanks

Duke
 
I am a new user of the lightscribe method of labeling disks. My Epson
R320 printer is crapping out, so I thought I would try a different
method that did not require a printer. So I bought a LG lightscribe
SATA 22X DVD Burner (OEM).

What I find is that I can't print color labels with a color graphic.
The results I am getting are not true B/W, but sort of a sepia. I
have tried NERO 7 and Acoustica (DEMOS).

So. I am thinking, did I mis-understand something? Will lightscribe
printing even produce colors? Or am I missing a setting or two in the
programs? Are the DEMO copies of the programs short this function? Is
the problem the drive and/or its driver?

After four tries, I figure I should ask, before I go any further.

Thanks

Duke
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For the foreseeable future this is probably as close to "color" lightscribe
printing as you will get:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f123/cdfreaksa-oefirst-looka-philips-color-lightscribe-197155/

Personally, I don't care about color printing, monochrome does all I need,
so I use a Casio disk printer and silver CDs and DVDs. The one time I did
try lightscribe it took so long that I was sure that the computer,
software, or drive had crashed somehow.
 
It's not the program, Lightscribe can't do color. You start
out with the base color of the top of the disc and make a
greyscale image onto it.
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What mis-lead me was that the programs have a menu selection for
COLOR. and the display is in color of course.

Thanks

Duke
 
kony said:
It's not the program, Lightscribe can't do color. You start
out with the base color of the top of the disc and make a
greyscale image onto it.
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They have pictures here, of what you can do. They take a pack of
media, with all different base colors, and burn test labels.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/review/156-Philips-Color-LightScribe/LightScribe-Color--Blue-2/

Now that I've seen it, its a good thing I'm too cheap to buy
that kind of media :-) My drive has LightScribe, but I've
never tried it. Just the thought of waiting extra minutes
for a cheesy label, never appealed to me.

Paul
 
Paul said:
They have pictures here, of what you can do. They take a pack of
media, with all different base colors, and burn test labels.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/review/156-Philips-Color-LightScribe/LightScribe-Color--Blue-2/


Now that I've seen it, its a good thing I'm too cheap to buy
that kind of media :-) My drive has LightScribe, but I've
never tried it. Just the thought of waiting extra minutes
for a cheesy label, never appealed to me.
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Lightscribe has it's problems, to be sure, but I've been able to get
some good results. Black on white line art with clearly delineated
regions of color looks best. Unfortunately, or maybe I should just say
incidentally, the future does not look bright for Lightscribe.

In addition to the other cited problems/limitations of Lightscribe, I've
noticed that media detection is a little flakey for CD-Rs. On four
seperate drives, from three manufacturers, I've noticed that CD-R
detection (the Lightscribe side) is hit or miss. This happens on
several different batches of media. Perhaps I've just been unlucky, but
that appears to be some sort of systematic problem.

Asus looks like they're not producing new Lightscribe-enabled models,
and I would not be shocked to see other manufacturers follow suit.
 
They have pictures here, of what you can do. They take a pack of
media, with all different base colors, and burn test labels.

http://www.cdfreaks.com/review/156-Philips-Color-LightScribe/LightScribe-Color-
-Blue-2/

Now that I've seen it, its a good thing I'm too cheap to buy
that kind of media :-) My drive has LightScribe, but I've
never tried it. Just the thought of waiting extra minutes
for a cheesy label, never appealed to me.

Paul
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And writing on the top of my dvd's with a freaking sharpie never ever has
appealed to me!!!

Although Lightscribe isnt perfect, its very passable compared to cheap ass
paper labels and sharpies.
 
GMAN said:
And writing on the top of my dvd's with a freaking sharpie never ever has
appealed to me!!!

Although Lightscribe isnt perfect, its very passable compared to cheap ass
paper labels and sharpies.
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I failed art class, so couldn't make an appealing label if you paid me.
Writing the details on the hub of the CD, with a marker, is about
all I can manage.

Paul
 
GMAN said:
$40 per cartridge, wow you would think they are HP or something!
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$40 for 100 discs, according to their estimates. $0.40 is more than I'm
paying per disc for the media.
 
"Cheap ass"? Since when is spending more to wait a long
time a virtue?
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I dont wait. I have 2 burners in my main PC . And when i am cranking out disks
for family and making lightscribe labels for them, i usually just either stick
the disk in the other drive when it is done recording, and make the label
there while beginning the next burn in the main drive. or if i have both
drives tied up burning disks, i just take the completed disks and lightscribe
a label onto them in another pc in my computer room.



Sharpies are great, it's not like you watch the disc
spinning around in the drive to display a secret code or
anything, being able to write on the disc what it is in a
few seconds is highly underrated.
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Living in a trailer is highly overrated.

Main downside is once you put it in a jeweled case there is
no label on the side, but there isn't one if you only
lightscribe label it either. Therefore if I were to take
any extra time it would be for a spine label insert for the
case, and I used to do this but it became more work than I
wanted to do per disc so now I just store the discs by
category and alphabetized within each category.
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Almost every DVD known to man in retail release has a already copied case art
uploaded somewhere. I just download the scanned art and print it out on laser
card stcok using my HP Color Laser.

Takes me all of 3 minutes to find, print and cutout and into the case
 
kony said:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:17:42 GMT,



You are free to spend your time any way you like, but there
is no way I would devote an extra 3 minutes per disc.
Finding that ok seems only a sign you don't make many discs,
which is fine if it suits your goal, but others make more
discs to the point it is not reasonable.


Further, there is no "real" benefit, whether a disc label is
pretty or a sharpie is a trivial thing considering it is not
wall-art, that you don't have any visual satisfaction while
it is in the drive doing as intended, being read.

If you deal with simpletons that are impressed by such
things, then it seems a great/easy/cheap way to impress
them, but that is far different than a logical reason to do
so from a computing persepctive.
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I was recently tasked with producing a hundred or so DVD slideshows for
a graduation ceremony. The LightScribe labels did take a lot of elapsed
time (but not much effort) and made the the project look a little more
professional. Several people specifically commented on the label.

At any rate, just a couple of randomly tossed cents -- I don't want to
walk into a crossfire.
 
You are free to spend your time any way you like, but there
is no way I would devote an extra 3 minutes per disc.
Finding that ok seems only a sign you don't make many discs,
which is fine if it suits your goal, but others make more
discs to the point it is not reasonable.
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You are so ADHD that you cant even devote 3 minutes to make your creations
look nice?

I make my label for the disk while I amd burning the next one I am working on.
Don't you multitask?

Further, there is no "real" benefit, whether a disc label is
pretty or a sharpie is a trivial thing considering it is not
wall-art, that you don't have any visual satisfaction while
it is in the drive doing as intended, being read.

If you deal with simpletons that are impressed by such
things, then it seems a great/easy/cheap way to impress
them, but that is far different than a logical reason to do
so from a computing persepctive.
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Simpleton=sharpie


I make DVD's from peoples home movies as a home side business and i am not
going to write on it with a sharpie.
 
Here's what kony wrote on 8/13/09:
Then we are talking about a different thing, the perception
of worth in a pre-made product by being well-dressed in its
presentation, rather than a need from a pure identification
purpose.
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I prefer nice labels on the disks I make for myself.
 
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