[ale] More Lightscribe for Linux

[Rich Faulkner]

I have a LS drive that is one on of our Windows audio production systems
and have also found it slow.  The results are fair but not really worth
the wait.  If you want to burn simple text into a disk then I guess it
would be fine but I see this technology only good for "one-off's".  Too
slow to be good for much else.

I also gave-up on printed labels years ago as front load CD's had a
tendency to "eat" the disks.  The labels can come off and bugger up a
drive (and even refuse to be ejected properly).  Since then we've gone
to printing on coated media with Epson printers.  They come with a
special platen that is inserted into the unit, aligned by reference
marks and any image is printed in photo quality to the disk surface.
Let the "permanent" ink dry and you have a HIGH quality disk!

Our feedback on sending demos out with created on these printers has
been awesome...and has helped land some good gigs.  I highly recommended
the Epson machines (also works OOTB with Linux!)  No need for special
graphics s/w either...Inkscape, GIMP, whatever.  Just build a template
and away you go!  

This would be an excellent way to print bar codes to disks as well.
Simple, fast and easy to maintain.  Media isn't priced too bad either
but is special disk media that has a printable surface.

Here's a quick link to Newegg for media:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007591
+600010614&QksAutoSuggestion=&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&Configurator=&IsNodeId=1&Subcategory=71&description=&Ntk=&CFG=&SpeTabStoreType=&AdvancedSearch=1&srchInDesc=

Rich in Lilburn


On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:28 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 15:26 -0400, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> > Thanks to all that replied to my previous post about Lightscribe for
> > Linux. Meanwhile I succeeded by using inkscape at 180 dpi and get a
> > good sharp image with the Memorex Lightscribe drive.
> > 
> > Another problem that I have with Lightscribe for Linux is that it
> > takes about sixteen minutes to burn a label. This is probably because
> > the bitmap covers nearly the entire cd surface. Usually I have quite a
> > bit of text, so cutting on that is not going to help much. Not only
> > that, but after one burn the image is barely legible so that I have to
> > do a second burn on top of the first one to get a decent image. While
> > this works fine, it now takes me over half an hour to burn a label!
> > Is there a way around this?
> 
> Nope.  In fact, the times you mention are shorter than I remember; I
> once used my LS drive under Windows several years ago, and it took about
> 30 minutes to burn the label on.  The contrast, as I recall, kinda
> sucked.
> 
> What I wanted to do then (and really, what I want to do now, but still
> haven't found a way to do) is to not only be able to print bar code
> labels for jewel cases, but also directly on the disc, for the ones that
> I don't put in jewel cases (I have a drawer with such discs in that I
> burn archives and backups to).  And then I'd have a way of tracking
> everything.  Bwahaha.
> 
> > I know that hp sells a specialized printer for cd labels (saw it a
> > Fry's), but it uses special blanks and probably uses Windows. Anyone
> > know about this?
> 
> I haven't looked into it yet, but this is something that I am going to
> be looking into. That, or labels that could be printed on a laser
> printer (if I can find any).  The thing I would be worried about with
> those, though, is getting the label off-center.  At the speeds that
> discs rotate at today, that would be somewhat of a disaster, I should
> think.
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 
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