why don't you just buy a printer that can print on CDs, i have one, it's truely amazing. the quality is better than that of the HP lightscribe, and no, the ink does not come off, even the way I treat my CDs. BTW, i have an epson stylus photo R220. the software that came with it makes it real easy to edit and print CDs
why don't you just buy a printer that can print on CDs, i have one, it's truely amazing. the quality is better than that of the HP lightscribe, and no, the ink does not come off, even the way I treat my CDs. BTW, i have an epson stylus photo R220. the software that came with it makes it real easy to edit and print CDs
But most people don't want to spend the money on the new printer. That's why CD Stompers are so useful.
why don't you just buy a printer that can print on CDs, i have one, it's truely amazing. the quality is better than that of the HP lightscribe, and no, the ink does not come off, even the way I treat my CDs. BTW, i have an epson stylus photo R220. the software that came with it makes it real easy to edit and print CDs
can you print a photo on it and it will auto adjust for the shape??
why don't you just buy a printer that can print on CDs, i have one, it's truely amazing. the quality is better than that of the HP lightscribe, and no, the ink does not come off, even the way I treat my CDs. BTW, i have an epson stylus photo R220. the software that came with it makes it real easy to edit and print CDs
I find it pretty tough to get the image on the CD perfectly. If you know something I don't please share!
I have an epson R320 printer and it should be capable of printing photo-quality images on supported CD-R Media, but I've never used this feature. I even purchased a spool of printable CD-Rs!
I have the same opinion of Lightscribe, in that I'd likely not use it. Although if a simple checkbox in the Finder, iTunes, or Toast could be used to burn the disc's title on the label side with minimal impact on burn time, I'd consider using it full time. But it has to be this easy and the CD blancs have to be cheap.
When I burn a bunch of discs and print inserts for jewel cases, I manually label the CDs with a Sharpie. I'm not wasting more time to print on each CD and I won't extend the burn time by more than 1 minute for Lightscribe.
from what i understand with lightscribe you burn the disk then turn it over for the label to be burned it doen'st do both sides without removing it--but would be cool and an upgrade potential for HP
from what i understand with lightscribe you burn the disk then turn it over for the label to be burned it doen'st do both sides without removing it--but would be cool and an upgrade potential for HP
Flipping the disc is crap. At that point I might as well just bust out my Sharpie. It will get the disc labeled faster and problem free.
If you're professionally distributing burned materials however, Lightscribe may be the way to go. But really, I think you'd want professionally labeled CDRs too. I don't know the quality of ink-jetted CDRs as I haven't done one yet.
I don't know about you, but most CDs I burn are either one-offs to carry data around (which get thrown away quickly) or personal backups or whatnot which don't need fancy labels. I feel that unless Lightscribe is well executed it is a solution in search of a problem.
it's nice if you are making dvd's or picture cd's especially for famliy then you can put one of the pictures as a label, but a sharpie is ......well quicker but less.....well sophisticated i'd like the option but slow doens't work for me either. too bad you didn't have to flip the disc over and could have two burning areas built into the unit
For simple backups like burning my iPhoto 5 library to DVD before installing iPhoto 6 a Sharpie is all that is needed. Where Lightscribe comes in handy is when I burn iTunes playlists because I can burn the song titles, with their times, so I know what is on the disk. When I purchase songs from iTMS I put them in a playlist and when there are enough songs to fill a disk but if I buy a whole album then only those songs get burned to a disk.
The quality of images/text is amazing! After I digitized my 'Sacred Heart' album I went to google images to look for the album cover so I could print the CD inserts and I found images of the CD itself so I imported it into the Lightscribe app and burned it to onto the disk. The laser is so precise that the copyright information is as clear as a store bought CD.
For simple backups like burning my iPhoto 5 library to DVD before installing iPhoto 6 a Sharpie is all that is needed. Where Lightscribe comes in handy is when I burn iTunes playlists because I can burn the song titles, with their times, so I know what is on the disk. When I purchase songs from iTMS I put them in a playlist and when there are enough songs to fill a disk but if I buy a whole album then only those songs get burned to a disk.
The quality of images/text is amazing! After I digitized my 'Sacred Heart' album I went to google images to look for the album cover so I could print the CD inserts and I found images of the CD itself so I imported it into the Lightscribe app and burned it to onto the disk. The laser is so precise that the copyright information is as clear as a store bought CD.
Touching on my points earlier, I think Steve would agree that until Lightscribe labeling is a snap and you don't have to flip the disc over it won't be a standard Mac feature.
After some consideration I realized the best part of Lightscript is that it doesn't require supplies like an inkjet or thermal CD printer. that's pretty cool in my book.
I would greatly appreciate a lightscribe (so long as they can get it in the books too). This is one of the few great ideas that came from a PC maker other than Apple.
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Originally posted by Lust
Am I the only one that would like to see a Lightscribe-like feature on the SuperDrives? Just "posting out loud" I guess :-P
I personally prefer to use a CD-Stomper. I can came some really nice designs, and in color.
it is pretty nice, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a cd printer tho.
Originally posted by i-am-an-elf
why don't you just buy a printer that can print on CDs, i have one, it's truely amazing. the quality is better than that of the HP lightscribe, and no, the ink does not come off, even the way I treat my CDs. BTW, i have an epson stylus photo R220. the software that came with it makes it real easy to edit and print CDs
But most people don't want to spend the money on the new printer. That's why CD Stompers are so useful.
Originally posted by i-am-an-elf
why don't you just buy a printer that can print on CDs, i have one, it's truely amazing. the quality is better than that of the HP lightscribe, and no, the ink does not come off, even the way I treat my CDs. BTW, i have an epson stylus photo R220. the software that came with it makes it real easy to edit and print CDs
can you print a photo on it and it will auto adjust for the shape??
Originally posted by i-am-an-elf
why don't you just buy a printer that can print on CDs, i have one, it's truely amazing. the quality is better than that of the HP lightscribe, and no, the ink does not come off, even the way I treat my CDs. BTW, i have an epson stylus photo R220. the software that came with it makes it real easy to edit and print CDs
I find it pretty tough to get the image on the CD perfectly. If you know something I don't please share!
I have the same opinion of Lightscribe, in that I'd likely not use it. Although if a simple checkbox in the Finder, iTunes, or Toast could be used to burn the disc's title on the label side with minimal impact on burn time, I'd consider using it full time. But it has to be this easy and the CD blancs have to be cheap.
When I burn a bunch of discs and print inserts for jewel cases, I manually label the CDs with a Sharpie. I'm not wasting more time to print on each CD and I won't extend the burn time by more than 1 minute for Lightscribe.
Originally posted by NOFEER
from what i understand with lightscribe you burn the disk then turn it over for the label to be burned it doen'st do both sides without removing it--but would be cool and an upgrade potential for HP
Flipping the disc is crap. At that point I might as well just bust out my Sharpie. It will get the disc labeled faster and problem free.
If you're professionally distributing burned materials however, Lightscribe may be the way to go. But really, I think you'd want professionally labeled CDRs too. I don't know the quality of ink-jetted CDRs as I haven't done one yet.
I don't know about you, but most CDs I burn are either one-offs to carry data around (which get thrown away quickly) or personal backups or whatnot which don't need fancy labels. I feel that unless Lightscribe is well executed it is a solution in search of a problem.
The quality of images/text is amazing! After I digitized my 'Sacred Heart' album I went to google images to look for the album cover so I could print the CD inserts and I found images of the CD itself so I imported it into the Lightscribe app and burned it to onto the disk. The laser is so precise that the copyright information is as clear as a store bought CD.
Originally posted by troberts
For simple backups like burning my iPhoto 5 library to DVD before installing iPhoto 6 a Sharpie is all that is needed. Where Lightscribe comes in handy is when I burn iTunes playlists because I can burn the song titles, with their times, so I know what is on the disk. When I purchase songs from iTMS I put them in a playlist and when there are enough songs to fill a disk but if I buy a whole album then only those songs get burned to a disk.
The quality of images/text is amazing! After I digitized my 'Sacred Heart' album I went to google images to look for the album cover so I could print the CD inserts and I found images of the CD itself so I imported it into the Lightscribe app and burned it to onto the disk. The laser is so precise that the copyright information is as clear as a store bought CD.
But is it in colour?