Using LightScribe on Linux???

[Ian Malone]

On 17 February 2014 03:23, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
> On 02/16/2014 09:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:35:25 -0500
>> Fred Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone point me to a site that may still have it? (or other
>>> suitable substitute).
>>
>> I found light scribe labels to be almost utterly invisible
>> and really pitiful looking when I tried it once a long time
>> ago (using the LaCie software which was available at the time).
>>
>> Infinitely better looking labels can be made with inkjet
>> printable media and an inkjet printer that supports
>> media printing (which my Epson Artisan does, though I have
>> to run the software in a virtual windows machine).
>

If it had become widespread It would have the advantage that you could
label discs without a printer, using the same device you used to write
it. (As someone else pointed out, but the reason is that mass printing
techniques are used, they don't use a stack of stick-on labels
either.) Since it didn't become widespread it and a printer is a more
useful purchase if you already have a burner it remains a bit niche.

> One thing to watch out for: the disks are burned with light--probably UV--
> and if you leave them in the sun, full of UV, the writing will fade. So
> don't.
>
> LIghtScribe forever!  --doug
>
>

It's burnt using the same laser that's used for the CD read,
infra-red. And the laser intensity is important.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc

Don't leave CD-R in the sun anyway, it's no better for the data dye layer.

-- 
imalone
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