Re: Question on using lightscribe to print DVD label
In article <h5pfda$3fj$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
>kony wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:28:05 -0400, jw@eldorado.com wrote:
>>
>>> I am a new user of the lightscribe method of labeling disks. My Epson
>>> R320 printer is crapping out, so I thought I would try a different
>>> method that did not require a printer. So I bought a LG lightscribe
>>> SATA 22X DVD Burner (OEM).
>>>
>>> What I find is that I can't print color labels with a color graphic.
>>> The results I am getting are not true B/W, but sort of a sepia. I
>>> have tried NERO 7 and Acoustica (DEMOS).
>>>
>>> So. I am thinking, did I mis-understand something? Will lightscribe
>>> printing even produce colors? Or am I missing a setting or two in the
>>> programs? Are the DEMO copies of the programs short this function? Is
>>> the problem the drive and/or its driver?
>>>
>>> After four tries, I figure I should ask, before I go any further.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Duke
>>
>> It's not the program, Lightscribe can't do color. You start
>> out with the base color of the top of the disc and make a
>> greyscale image onto it.
>
>They have pictures here, of what you can do. They take a pack of
>media, with all different base colors, and burn test labels.
>
>http://www.cdfreaks.com/review/156-P...tScribe-Color-
>-Blue-2/
>
>Now that I've seen it, its a good thing I'm too cheap to buy
>that kind of media :-) My drive has LightScribe, but I've
>never tried it. Just the thought of waiting extra minutes
>for a cheesy label, never appealed to me.
>
> Paul
And writing on the top of my dvd's with a freaking sharpie never ever has
appealed to me!!!
Although Lightscribe isnt perfect, its very passable compared to cheap ***
paper labels and sharpies.
Re: Question on using lightscribe to print DVD label
In article <R4qdne_XOZip3x3XnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@giganews.com>, "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
><jw@eldorado.com> wrote in message
>news:cs7085h8u1vapp65j5bubjdpb996ljko2d@4ax.com.. .
>>I am a new user of the lightscribe method of labeling disks. My Epson
>> R320 printer is crapping out, so I thought I would try a different
>> method that did not require a printer. So I bought a LG lightscribe
>> SATA 22X DVD Burner (OEM).
>>
>> What I find is that I can't print color labels with a color graphic.
>> The results I am getting are not true B/W, but sort of a sepia. I
>> have tried NERO 7 and Acoustica (DEMOS).
>>
>> So. I am thinking, did I mis-understand something? Will lightscribe
>> printing even produce colors? Or am I missing a setting or two in the
>> programs? Are the DEMO copies of the programs short this function? Is
>> the problem the drive and/or its driver?
>>
>> After four tries, I figure I should ask, before I go any further.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Duke
>
> You might find this interesting:
>
>http://global.dymo.com/enUS/DiscPainter/default.html
>
>Luck;
> Ken
>
>
$40 per cartridge, wow you would think they are HP or something!
Re: Question on using lightscribe to print DVD label
GMAN wrote:
> In article <h5pfda$3fj$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
>> kony wrote:
>>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:28:05 -0400, jw@eldorado.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am a new user of the lightscribe method of labeling disks. My Epson
>>>> R320 printer is crapping out, so I thought I would try a different
>>>> method that did not require a printer. So I bought a LG lightscribe
>>>> SATA 22X DVD Burner (OEM).
>>>>
>>>> What I find is that I can't print color labels with a color graphic.
>>>> The results I am getting are not true B/W, but sort of a sepia. I
>>>> have tried NERO 7 and Acoustica (DEMOS).
>>>>
>>>> So. I am thinking, did I mis-understand something? Will lightscribe
>>>> printing even produce colors? Or am I missing a setting or two in the
>>>> programs? Are the DEMO copies of the programs short this function? Is
>>>> the problem the drive and/or its driver?
>>>>
>>>> After four tries, I figure I should ask, before I go any further.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Duke
>>> It's not the program, Lightscribe can't do color. You start
>>> out with the base color of the top of the disc and make a
>>> greyscale image onto it.
>> They have pictures here, of what you can do. They take a pack of
>> media, with all different base colors, and burn test labels.
>>
>> http://www.cdfreaks.com/review/156-P...tScribe-Color-
>> -Blue-2/
>>
>> Now that I've seen it, its a good thing I'm too cheap to buy
>> that kind of media :-) My drive has LightScribe, but I've
>> never tried it. Just the thought of waiting extra minutes
>> for a cheesy label, never appealed to me.
>>
>> Paul
>
> And writing on the top of my dvd's with a freaking sharpie never ever has
> appealed to me!!!
>
> Although Lightscribe isnt perfect, its very passable compared to cheap ***
> paper labels and sharpies.
>
I failed art class, so couldn't make an appealing label if you paid me.
Writing the details on the hub of the CD, with a marker, is about
all I can manage.
Re: Question on using lightscribe to print DVD label
GMAN wrote:
> In article <R4qdne_XOZip3x3XnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@giganews.com>, "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> <jw@eldorado.com> wrote in message
>> news:cs7085h8u1vapp65j5bubjdpb996ljko2d@4ax.com...
>>> I am a new user of the lightscribe method of labeling disks. My Epson
>>> R320 printer is crapping out, so I thought I would try a different
>>> method that did not require a printer. So I bought a LG lightscribe
>>> SATA 22X DVD Burner (OEM).
>>>
>>> What I find is that I can't print color labels with a color graphic.
>>> The results I am getting are not true B/W, but sort of a sepia. I
>>> have tried NERO 7 and Acoustica (DEMOS).
>>>
>>> So. I am thinking, did I mis-understand something? Will lightscribe
>>> printing even produce colors? Or am I missing a setting or two in the
>>> programs? Are the DEMO copies of the programs short this function? Is
>>> the problem the drive and/or its driver?
>>>
>>> After four tries, I figure I should ask, before I go any further.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Duke
>> You might find this interesting:
>>
>> http://global.dymo.com/enUS/DiscPainter/default.html
>>
>> Luck;
>> Ken
>>
>>
> $40 per cartridge, wow you would think they are HP or something!
$40 for 100 discs, according to their estimates. $0.40 is more than I'm
paying per disc for the media.
>And writing on the top of my dvd's with a freaking sharpie never ever has
>appealed to me!!!
>
>Although Lightscribe isnt perfect, its very passable compared to cheap ***
>paper labels and sharpies.
"Cheap ***"? Since when is spending more to wait a long
time a virtue?
Sharpies are great, it's not like you watch the disc
spinning around in the drive to display a secret code or
anything, being able to write on the disc what it is in a
few seconds is highly underrated.
Main downside is once you put it in a jeweled case there is
no label on the side, but there isn't one if you only
lightscribe label it either. Therefore if I were to take
any extra time it would be for a spine label insert for the
case, and I used to do this but it became more work than I
wanted to do per disc so now I just store the discs by
category and alphabetized within each category.
Re: Question on using lightscribe to print DVD label
In article <q3e385pbrq48f8fark5o434vvfsguv8rdn@4ax.com>, spam@spam.com wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:37:31 GMT,
>winniethepooh@100acrewoods.com (GMAN) wrote:
>
>
>>And writing on the top of my dvd's with a freaking sharpie never ever has
>>appealed to me!!!
>>
>>Although Lightscribe isnt perfect, its very passable compared to cheap ***
>>paper labels and sharpies.
>
>
>"Cheap ***"? Since when is spending more to wait a long
>time a virtue?
>
I dont wait. I have 2 burners in my main PC . And when i am cranking out disks
for family and making lightscribe labels for them, i usually just either stick
the disk in the other drive when it is done recording, and make the label
there while beginning the next burn in the main drive. or if i have both
drives tied up burning disks, i just take the completed disks and lightscribe
a label onto them in another pc in my computer room.
>Sharpies are great, it's not like you watch the disc
>spinning around in the drive to display a secret code or
>anything, being able to write on the disc what it is in a
>few seconds is highly underrated.
>
Living in a trailer is highly overrated.
>Main downside is once you put it in a jeweled case there is
>no label on the side, but there isn't one if you only
>lightscribe label it either. Therefore if I were to take
>any extra time it would be for a spine label insert for the
>case, and I used to do this but it became more work than I
>wanted to do per disc so now I just store the discs by
>category and alphabetized within each category.
Almost every DVD known to man in retail release has a already copied case art
uploaded somewhere. I just download the scanned art and print it out on laser
card stcok using my HP Color Laser.
Takes me all of 3 minutes to find, print and cutout and into the case
>Almost every DVD known to man in retail release has a already copied case art
>uploaded somewhere. I just download the scanned art and print it out on laser
>card stcok using my HP Color Laser.
>
>Takes me all of 3 minutes to find, print and cutout and into the case
You are free to spend your time any way you like, but there
is no way I would devote an extra 3 minutes per disc.
Finding that ok seems only a sign you don't make many discs,
which is fine if it suits your goal, but others make more
discs to the point it is not reasonable.
Further, there is no "real" benefit, whether a disc label is
pretty or a sharpie is a trivial thing considering it is not
wall-art, that you don't have any visual satisfaction while
it is in the drive doing as intended, being read.
If you deal with simpletons that are impressed by such
things, then it seems a great/easy/cheap way to impress
them, but that is far different than a logical reason to do
so from a computing persepctive.
Re: Question on using lightscribe to print DVD label
kony wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:17:42 GMT,
> winniethepooh@100acrewoods.com (GMAN) wrote:
>
>
>> Almost every DVD known to man in retail release has a already copied case art
>> uploaded somewhere. I just download the scanned art and print it out on laser
>> card stcok using my HP Color Laser.
>>
>> Takes me all of 3 minutes to find, print and cutout and into the case
>
>
> You are free to spend your time any way you like, but there
> is no way I would devote an extra 3 minutes per disc.
> Finding that ok seems only a sign you don't make many discs,
> which is fine if it suits your goal, but others make more
> discs to the point it is not reasonable.
>
>
> Further, there is no "real" benefit, whether a disc label is
> pretty or a sharpie is a trivial thing considering it is not
> wall-art, that you don't have any visual satisfaction while
> it is in the drive doing as intended, being read.
>
> If you deal with simpletons that are impressed by such
> things, then it seems a great/easy/cheap way to impress
> them, but that is far different than a logical reason to do
> so from a computing persepctive.
I was recently tasked with producing a hundred or so DVD slideshows for
a graduation ceremony. The LightScribe labels did take a lot of elapsed
time (but not much effort) and made the the project look a little more
professional. Several people specifically commented on the label.
At any rate, just a couple of randomly tossed cents -- I don't want to
walk into a crossfire.
Re: Question on using lightscribe to print DVD label
In article <qt4785p5l3h08ug9nt8ubaqlnr8rfq4jco@4ax.com>, spam@spam.com wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:17:42 GMT,
>winniethepooh@100acrewoods.com (GMAN) wrote:
>
>
>>Almost every DVD known to man in retail release has a already copied case art
>>uploaded somewhere. I just download the scanned art and print it out on laser
>>card stcok using my HP Color Laser.
>>
>>Takes me all of 3 minutes to find, print and cutout and into the case
>
>
>You are free to spend your time any way you like, but there
>is no way I would devote an extra 3 minutes per disc.
>Finding that ok seems only a sign you don't make many discs,
>which is fine if it suits your goal, but others make more
>discs to the point it is not reasonable.
>
You are so ADHD that you cant even devote 3 minutes to make your creations
look nice?
I make my label for the disk while I amd burning the next one I am working on.
Don't you multitask?
>
>Further, there is no "real" benefit, whether a disc label is
>pretty or a sharpie is a trivial thing considering it is not
>wall-art, that you don't have any visual satisfaction while
>it is in the drive doing as intended, being read.
>
>If you deal with simpletons that are impressed by such
>things, then it seems a great/easy/cheap way to impress
>them, but that is far different than a logical reason to do
>so from a computing persepctive.
Simpleton=sharpie
I make DVD's from peoples home movies as a home side business and i am not
going to write on it with a sharpie.
>I make DVD's from peoples home movies as a home side business and i am not
>going to write on it with a sharpie.
Then we are talking about a different thing, the perception
of worth in a pre-made product by being well-dressed in its
presentation, rather than a need from a pure identification
purpose.
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