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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. Re:Not a HP invention by Rakishi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...the article mentions that...read it.

  2. Re:Not a HP invention by professor+seagull · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... or at least read the post, which also starts off with your comment

  3. Re:Not a HP invention by Mr.Mysteriosity · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Please read before posting. Please

  4. a band's friend by dAzED1 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    even at monochrome, this is great! Handing out demos of your music can be done with a semi-professional look, instead of the sticky label crap. Then, if a few are well received, you send them to be mass-produced.

    That, and you can shuffle things around...if you have a couple dozen songs recorded, you can make a mix of 2 or 3 (all a demo for a club should have) that fits the club better. Harder club, put your harder songs on. And then label it, so it looks a lot more professional.

    I'll certainly be trying one out.

  5. Figures.... by Jaysyn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... seeing as I just bought a DVD+/-RW.

    Jaysyn

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    There is a war going on for your mind.
  6. How about text on the /data/ side of the CD? by usrerco · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Has anyone figured out how to burn text on the /data/ side? That'd be sweet.

    Often my CD's have a lot of unused tracks in the outer rings that seem ripe for use.

    Surely someone out there has made a patch for cdrecord(1) to burn short ascii text messages to the data side, or if it supports multiple lines, and there's enough free space, one could go nuts with banner(6) or figlet(6) %^D