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Burn the CD on Both Sides
apocal writes "How cool wouldn't it be to be able to burn the label on your cd using the same laser you used to burn the cd in the first place? Well, I guess this technology called LightScribe will be coming soon. 'Suppose you have just created a compilation CD of a dozen or so of your favorite songs. Now you want to make a label that contains the song titles, artists' names, and some personal information and design elements to make it special. First, burn your tracks onto the data side of the disc. Then open your favorite LightScribe-enabled label-making software and go to the CD template work area. Now you do all of your creative design workcompose pictures, copy, artwork whatever. When you are satisfied with what you have done, take the disc out of your drive, flip it over to the label side and put it back in the drive. Now go back to your label-making software, and simply click print.'"
With laser precision, LightScribe delivers a closely controlled quantum of light energy to multiple points on the disc as it spins in the drive.
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So I presume, the image on the disk only appears when someone finally observes it, and before, it exists only as a superposition of qpoints..... How Cool it that!
How cool wouldn't it be to be able to burn the label on your cd using the same laser you used to burn the cd in the first place?
That summary was spot on, wow.
" Remember, there was some rule, stating that your data will always take 100.1% of your available storage space."
Yes, its called 'more' law.
The laser, especially in burning mode, heats the disk up. Therefore it wouldn't be quite cool, but rather hot.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Adverts ARE duped, you read the paper, they show dupes of the same companies selling stuff each day.
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Pay for an ad like everyone else?
Cow orker of mine once had a CD in a desk drawer with a leaky bottle of whiteboard cleaner. When she discovered it, she found she had a completely blank, transparent disk of plastic and a perfectly round piece of aluminium foil --- the data layer had peeled off.
I suggested gluing it back on, but she didn't seem to be terribly impressed with that...
As is, it only does black and white labels. How much harder would it be to extend the process to color labels?
Sure! You can use Polaroid technology. Disk is covered by a semi-transparent covering that only a laser or other major light source can penetrate, or a cover that is removed when inserted. The results would be superb and I imagine would only add a few bucks per disc.
I've been putting data on both sides of my disks for years. All it took was a hole punch. /shows his age.
This is the only CD printer I've ever needed: $2 CD printer
Does anyone actually burn only 10 songs in .wav format on a CD any more? Can I get you to make me some 8-track tapes? The future is here now, and it means burning hundred of mp3's on a CD or thousands of songs on a DVD. I guess the label burning is interesting, but there's no room to fit all the song titles.
I file my discs in binders due to overwhelming volume (if I put them in jewel cases I'd need a warehouse).
With that many discs, even with an inventory system to get you to the right binder, you still need labels of some kind to help.
I like stickers. I know a lot of people say they cause playback trouble, but I haven't seen it. I've gone through several thousand stickers over many years, and I haven't really had any trouble that I could relate to putting a sticker on.
Stickers cost 7 cents each at Sam's club, plus about 1 cent for ink if you're refilling ink carts instead of paying the silly amount the mfgs want for their carts. You get full color labels then instead of this goofy thing.
Yeah, but you'd have to use a hole puncher to make a notch in the DVD to get it to fit into the drive.
I just buy inkjet coated CDR/DVDRs now.
Isn't it difficult to feed the CDRs through the printer?
(Reminds me of the old joke about the pharmacy assistant that was fired because he kept breaking the pill jars when putting them into the typewriter.)