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Disc Writers Now Print the Label Too

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-a-bout-time dept.

gardolas writes "Rippers and burners with an eye for design have a new way to smarten their image. Disc writers that can print images onto the label sides of the discs will hit the market next month. The LightScribe system has been developed by Verbatim and HP."

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  1. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now they can nail you for reproducing copyrighted artwork on your CDs full of downloaded music...

    Add another 20 years in the pokey...

  2. I can see this looking really dated, really fast by dim5 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I can't watch TV for half an hour without seeing the snowboarding ad showing off LightScribe.

    Sure, it's cool... the first time you see it. But it's all done in one sepia tone. I don't see how the technology could advance to include color using a CDR laser, so prepare to get all the monotone fun you can handle. As soon as a more useful idea for CD labelling comes along, no one will be impressed with LightScribe, and the people that couldn't wait to use it will be embarassed to, because it will have gone from looking "high tech" to very dated.

    Kind of like my Casio wrist camera.

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  3. Re:Needs a built in label scanner.... by renehollan · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Noooo...Need a standard to store the label data on the disk itself, somewhere...

    /me smells patent.

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