Lightscribe Tips

[frlane]

I love lightscribe. I have had issues with the burn twice on a few, where the label is just slightly off. Also, to save time, there are templates that don't burn to the whole disc. So, if you are just putting a name and not a full image, you can burn the label much faster....4 minutes instead of 20.

[Bass7]

That's right. These are good tips.

[jman98]

I supported the lightscribe at first because the alternative (printing directly on discs) was insanely expensive. There's no reason now for people to still do lightscribe in my opinion. Why?

1) The cost of printers that can print to discs has dropped dramatically.
2) You can print to discs in color.
3) You can print to discs in maybe 20 seconds. Even the best case scenario for lightscribe is a LOT more than that.
4) Some of my lightscribe labels, although stored out of direct sunlight, are starting to fade badly. In perhaps another year or so there may not be any evidence on the disc that there ever was a label or at best it will be completely unreadable.
5) EVERY lightscribe drive I have owned, all 3 of them, developed problems burning to the data side of discs within 1 year of purchase. The ability to write to DL media was the most common problem. One of the drives would only burn to CD-R and lightscribe surfaces. It could not write anything to any DVD discs of any type (+/-R, +/-RW, +/-DL).

If you guys want to keep using lightscribe you can, but there's really no reason to use it anymore. I used to defend it here against several critics, but when the cost of printers that could print to discs dropped to reasonable levels, I switched to that and I'm not interested in doing lightscribe any more.

[Bass7]

I must oppose to the cost of printers. They're sold under the price of production costs (at least here in Holland), and kept in business because the ink cardridges are made and designed to level them out. I don't support printers people throw out because the ink ran out. And I don't like printers because it springs people to make a profit for half the money. By 'illigally' refilling them. At least the print manufacturer loyers get paid.

In a coincidense I just heard from someone (not on the internet) that a big pile of value (printers) were deserted by consumers. I think we should send them to printer manufacturers. Don't get me wrong. I like printers, respect them, but maybe a lack of respect makes them rubbish. I think the responsible managers at the companies are a disgrace to technology. Not good.

I'm not going to judge anybody though. I have a printer myself.

Epson, HP, cra(m)p yourself together, show good faith, and design a printer system that's worth more (but be honest). Design a printer with an "inkt in" on the side. And put a nice grafity artistic work on it while you're at it. Nice job R&D people at HP. Look after your workmen in China.

Thanks videoHelp forum for putting up with me.