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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. In capitalist England... by turgid · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...10k RPM UltraSCSI drive really does burn you. Ouch.

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  2. DVD crispy by FraggedSquid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Takes the fun out of using branding irons though

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  3. HP is looking for the next ink cartridge cash cow by holy_smoke · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's all this is... sell you a special CD-writer at-cost and rake you over the coals on the CDR's. Don't fall for it folks. Just use a perma-marker. ;-)

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