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The Maillard Reaction
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2008/09/26 10:21:01 (permalink)

questions about lightscribe

Hi,
I went to burn a back up DVD for my Komplete5 updates this morning on my brand new system.

It has a lightscribe capable DVD/CD burner.

I haven't learned anything about light scribe yet... can I buy compatible discs at the big box office supply stores?

I turned off lightscribe for this burn.

What would have happened if I had left it on using an old stock DVD+RW that I had on hand? Bad Stuff?

Are light scribe capable discs commonly available in plain white?

thanks for any help you can offer,
mike


edit to add: apparently you have to remove your disc and turn it over to use the light scribe? so I guess it wold be hard to do it by mistake.
post edited by mike_mccue - 2008/09/26 10:30:49
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    mcourter
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    RE: questions about lightscribe 2008/09/26 12:43:20 (permalink)
    Quite right, Mike. After burning the CD, flip it over and print it. It must be a disc designed for that purpose. I believe it's Memorex that makes the actual Lightscribe discs, but there are other brands for thermal printing, including TaiyoYuden. I got mine from musicians friend. The printing process takes a while, 15-20 minutes per disc, and the choices for printing may be limited. I understand Nero offers more choices of images to print, and so does LightScribe, for a price, of course.

    Oh yeah: I think the Light scribe discs come in different colors, but I only found the T-Ys in silver and white.
    post edited by mcourter - 2008/09/26 12:44:57

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    The Maillard Reaction
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    RE: questions about lightscribe 2008/09/26 13:23:47 (permalink)
    Thanks very much.

    I'm surprised it takes twenty minutes... but I can't wait to try it.

    best,
    mike
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    RE: questions about lightscribe 2008/09/29 12:33:47 (permalink)
    What do you think Mike? Had a chance to scribe one yet?
    The color discs aren't hard to find. You can see some here

    I haven't scribed many but at least one on everything but white. I like it...no hassle with printers.

    Regards,
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    RE: questions about lightscribe 2008/09/29 14:02:37 (permalink)
    Yep, lots of LightScribe media out there... both CD and DVD...

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    RE: questions about lightscribe 2008/09/30 03:59:43 (permalink)
    edit to add: apparently you have to remove your disc and turn it over to use the light scribe? so I guess it wold be hard to do it by mistake.


    You won't harm anything by accident.
    You have to use lightscribe media... and follow thru with the label burn process (flipping the disc over).
    I've got three lightscribe burners... and never actually use the feature.

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    RE: questions about lightscribe 2008/09/30 22:59:41 (permalink)
    I've burned a few Lightscribe discs. I wasn't really impressed until I figured out that you can do graphics from picture files and that sort of thing. It's actually pretty cool.
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    RE: questions about lightscribe 2008/09/30 23:34:33 (permalink)
    Lightscribe is pretty cool but it is awefully slow. If you could do it on another computer from the one your are using then do because when I've used the CPU for other things, it left blank lines in the image.

    HTH

    Dave
    post edited by kurrykid - 2008/09/30 23:36:48
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    RE: questions about lightscribe 2008/10/01 02:23:14 (permalink)
    Yeah it is not worth the time really

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