[ale] LightScribe for Linux

[Cornelis van Dijk]

Thanks to all that replied. I tried Inkscape yesterday, but I am only
halfway with that. I appears that one can actually set the pixels per
inch on Inkscape, so far I had it at 60, which gives the same
miserable results as the gimp, at least on my regular hp printer. Not
tried to actually burn a label, The burner is Memorex lightscribe.
Cor

On 6/27/11, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011/06/27, at 14:24 , Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>
>> Not sure what LightScribe is...
> [snip]
>
> Light scribe drives (using Light Scribe media) let you
> burn the disk labeling info into the top side of the disk
> (strictly gray scale) as well as burn the data into the
> bottom side.
>
> I've always gone with color ink jet printing for my disk
> labeling using Epson printer models that support this
> as they provide good quality.  The Light Scribe labeling
> I've seen was pretty marginal in comparison.  Kind of a
> gimmick in my view, but still nice that there are printer
> drivers under Linux that support it.
>
> With any printing, resolution of the image file you
> start with is key to the quality.  With the exception
> of plotters, I imagine that any printer (or printer driver)
> will be effectively working from a big bitmap for output,
> whether that is rendered from structured format like
> Post Script or a scaled bitmap image.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
>
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 13:46 -0400, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
>>> Anyone familiar with LightScribe for Linux, such as "4L-gui"?
>>> I have a hard time getting reasonably sharp lettering using the
>>> "Gimp".
>>> Problem is that "4L-gui" will only accept things like "gif", "jpeg",
>>> etc,
>>> but no regular text or "postcript".
>>>
>>> I know there are LightScribe forums, but they use Windows and Nero,
>>> which I would like to avoid if possible.
>>>
>>> What image editor besides Gimp would work?
>>
>> You could try InkScape.
>>
>> However, I expect that you're actually running into one of two
>> problems:
>>
>>  1.  You are exporting the image from the GIMP in a low resolution,
>>      such as 72 dpi (a standard resolution for Web graphics, but not
>>      for print purposes).
>>
>>  2.  Your drive is not capable of extremely high resolution on
>>      LightScribe imaging.
>>
>> Try to create the image as a 300 dpi (or even 600 dpi) graphic, and
>> try
>> using that graphic as the source for the process.  Also make sure that
>> you use the highest quality setting, which will take about 20 to 30
>> minutes to create the lightscribe label.
>>
>> 	--- Mike
>
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