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New HP Drive Lets You Burn Your Own Label

Posted by timothy on from the hold-your-breath-for-linux-drivers dept.

way2trivial writes "Wow -- remember Yamaha's DiscT@2? now HP has a invention to use the DVD laser to etch the flip side of CDs and DVDs. I own a nice Epson to print on CD-R/DVD-Rs, it does full color -- but this looks impressive as hell, even if it is in monochrome"

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  1. Is it more than cosmetic? by __aatgod8309 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Have to wonder if this process will shorten the life of the cd the way adhesive labels are rumoured to do...

  2. 10$ = Rs 500 approx by varunrebel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A CD Drive costs about Rs. 1200-1500 in India.

    An increase of 10$ (=Rs. 500 approx) is a bit too steep. Obviously the good old felt-tip pen is much cheaper !!

    But the basic idea/concept is very user friendly and cool. Wish they can make it a bit cheaper... :)

    --
    "Programming is like sex. Make one mistake and support it for the rest of your life !!"
  3. Small business use.... by MagicDude · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This will help small software businesses lower their costs of production. My family has a business where we sell software, but where it's not practical for us to use mass production because we have to make 1000 copies minimum, since our market is so small. It's easier and cheaper for us to simply burn DVD's everytime an order comes in and print the labels ourselves, and then shrink wrap it. So this will be a real benefit to us and potentially other small business too.

  4. Excellent for musicians by nmoog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would LOVE something like that for the CD-R's of my music I sell, and send out as demos. Stick-on labels look like stick-on labels, and are barely better than magic markers.

    The most impressive result I have gotten so far is by laying the cd's on the ground and spray painting them all white. Then when that layer dries, lay a stencil of an image over each disk and spray black. Leaves a cool ghosty image that looks like it was pressed. The disks play fine, and it doesn't look like your music is sponsored by TDK.

  5. here ya go. by Niacin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.lightscribe.com/user/labelTips.aspx

    Closeups of different labels using this thing.

  6. ink and burn = cd tatoos. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I mess around as a artist time to time with different media.

    This is very similar to etching print plates.

    After you burn the CDROm and etch the flip side, guess what?!

    You take various colored inks, fill in the etching and then wipe off the excess.

    I bet you could make some realy neat looking designes with it.