Linux and Lightscribe Technology

[Gene Poole]

I've poked around the net looking for something to address my desire to 
use my Fedora 8 box to burn Lightscribe labels onto my CDs and DVDs.  But, 
most of the software I found seems to be about 2-years old.  That seems to 
me to be a long time without an update!  I've got 2-Windows machines that 
will perform this task, but, I really would like to remain in my comfort 
zone on Linux.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Gene Poole

[Brian Powell]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Gene Poole  wrote:
> I've poked around the net looking for something to address my desire to use
> my Fedora 8 box to burn Lightscribe labels onto my CDs and DVDs.  But, most
> of the software I found seems to be about 2-years old.  That seems to me to
> be a long time without an update!  I've got 2-Windows machines that will
> perform this task, but, I really would like to remain in my comfort zone on
> Linux.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Gene Poole
>
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Not sure if you seen this but
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803 but I use that to
burn my labels all of the time, it's been about 1 year since it was
updated but my theory is if it isnt broke dont fix it ;-)

[John Thompson]

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Gene Poole wrote:

| I've poked around the net looking for something to address my desire to
| use my Fedora 8 box to burn Lightscribe labels onto my CDs and DVDs.
But,
| most of the software I found seems to be about 2-years old.  That
seems to
| me to be a long time without an update!  I've got 2-Windows machines that
| will perform this task, but, I really would like to remain in my comfort
| zone on Linux.

I've never used the Windows Lightscribe software. Does it have features
lacking in the linux version?

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[Tom Horsley]

> I've poked around the net looking for something to address my desire to 
> use my Fedora 8 box to burn Lightscribe labels onto my CDs and DVDs.  But, 
> most of the software I found seems to be about 2-years old.

Hey, if it "just works" who needs an update?

I install a couple of rpms I found at LaCie software:

4L-1.0-r6.i586.rpm
lightscribe-1.10.27.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm

That gives me the 4L-gui program to run which lets me burn
any old image I want, with gimp to manufacture the image.

Of course, I find the contrast on the images pretty
feeble, so I'm not all that impressed with the whole
lightscribe thing, but it does seem to work fine.

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Gene Poole  wrote:
> I've poked around the net looking for something to address my desire to use
> my Fedora 8 box to burn Lightscribe labels onto my CDs and DVDs.  But, most
> of the software I found seems to be about 2-years old.  That seems to me to
> be a long time without an update!  I've got 2-Windows machines that will
> perform this task, but, I really would like to remain in my comfort zone on
> Linux.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Gene Poole

Well, my answer may not be all that helpful, but I find that print on DVDs
are much easier/better. They don't really cost any more than plain DVDs (in
fact I buy them in spools of 100 at Costco when I get a coupon for buy one
get one free). Then all you need is a cheap printer with the capability. Now
you have full color capability.

Richard

[Bruce Byfield]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 08:51 -0500, Gene Poole wrote:
> | I've poked around the net looking for something to address my desire to
> | use my Fedora 8 box to burn Lightscribe labels onto my CDs and DVDs.
> But,
> | most of the software I found seems to be about 2-years old.  That
> seems to
> | me to be a long time without an update!  I've got 2-Windows machines that
> | will perform this task, but, I really would like to remain in my comfort
> | zone on Linux.
>
> I've never used the Windows Lightscribe software. Does it have features
> lacking in the linux version?

Lightscribe is not an open standard, and, as a result has had very
little development for GNU/Linux. Both the Lightscribe programs that
work on GNU/Linux, one from Lightscribe itself and one from LaCie are
both very basic, without nearly the same ease of use as the Windows
Lightscribe software.