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Burn the CD on Both Sides

Posted by michael on from the crispy-on-the-outside-with-a-moist-chewy-center dept.

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.'"

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  1. Reminds me of.. by mr.henry · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yamaha came out with something similar back in 2002 called DiscT@2 that let you put text and graphics on the unused portions of the data side. It never really took off.

  2. No thanks by JustinXB · · Score: 5, Informative

    It combines the CD or DVD drive of your computer with specially coated discs and enhanced disc-burning software to produce precise, silkscreen-quality, iridescent labels.

    I think I'll pass.

    1. Re:No thanks by polyp2000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In your own words ...

      I just can't see this technology being common when you need special media - sorry, try again.

      I just buy inkjet coated CDR/DVDRs now.

      No further comment...

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  3. Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    *cough* advert *cough*

  4. Did you really have to give an example? by stevejsmith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This reads more like an advertisement - do you really need to spell out to us a "possible use" for this? Don't think you could have left that up to our imaginations?

  5. Question by gowen · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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.
    So, does slashdot get paid for running such blatant advertising copy for technology that doesn't even seem to exist commercially yet? If so, how much?
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  6. Advertisements by lightknight · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ok, this is annoying. Second advertisement in a row. The question now is: are the editors just slow, or they are getting paid for this?

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  7. How cool... by MMMDI · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Sharpies are OK to use by sparkhead · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's no problem using sharpies. Touched on this in this thread over a year ago. The summary, from the Sharpie website:

    Is the SHARPIE marker safe for writing on CD's?

    Sanford has used SHARPIE markers on CDs for years and we have never experienced a problem. We do not believe that the SHARPIE ink can affect these CDs, however we have not performed any long-term laboratory testing to verify this. We have spoken to many major CD manufacturers about this issue. They use the SHARPIE markers on CDs internally as well, and do not believe that the SHARPIE ink will cause any harm to their products.