arstechnica.com— Ever wanted to laser etch some labels onto DVDs you've burned, but wanted to do it on your Mac? Now you can.
Oct 18, 2006View in Crawl 4
I was going to say...I've had an external Lacie burner for awhile capable of writing LightScribe. Never used that functionality but always assumed it was there.
LightScribe works great! 1000x better than the black sharpie. I can see how it would be a waste if you were using it on the pirated movies you download, but my clients freak out when I hand them work on a custom disc.
the article also mentioned support for linux. 1 less reason to boot back into windows. hopefully someone will take the lacie linux software, and adapt it to other drives. may I suggest the HP DVD640...
I have had an internal lightscribe drive for about 2 years now (and I bought it from the official Apple reseller Nextbyte here in Australia!).I use it every week to produce discs for clients, burn dvd's (putting the official DVD disc images on it) plus when i do a photo backup, I print a thumbnail view screen capture to quickly see what's on it.Title: 4 minsContent: 9 minsFull: 19 minsIf it is any slower, get the firmware and software upgrades.Oh, and anyone who uses it to put "DISC 1 - COLLECTION OF MISC STUFF" is just dumb, get a sharpie.
LightScribe on Macs has been available for a while now. LaCie released a DVD burner with LightScribe support and software almost a year ago. How do I know? I have one in my G5.The only news here is that now you can burn a LightScribe CD in Linux. Title should be "LightScribe laser-etching drives come to Linux"
mikeflynnOct 18, 2006
I was going to say...I've had an external Lacie burner for awhile capable of writing LightScribe. Never used that functionality but always assumed it was there.
iluvhatemailOct 18, 2006
LightScribe works great! 1000x better than the black sharpie. I can see how it would be a waste if you were using it on the pirated movies you download, but my clients freak out when I hand them work on a custom disc.
Closed AccountOct 18, 2006
Precisely. Lightscribe is for when you have to hand somebody a DVD, and you want them to remember it.
punx45Oct 18, 2006
the article also mentioned support for linux. 1 less reason to boot back into windows. hopefully someone will take the lacie linux software, and adapt it to other drives. may I suggest the HP DVD640...
Closed AccountOct 18, 2006
Printers with direct CD/DVD printing make lightscribe look like stone carving.
darthpilatusOct 18, 2006
I have had an internal lightscribe drive for about 2 years now (and I bought it from the official Apple reseller Nextbyte here in Australia!).I use it every week to produce discs for clients, burn dvd's (putting the official DVD disc images on it) plus when i do a photo backup, I print a thumbnail view screen capture to quickly see what's on it.Title: 4 minsContent: 9 minsFull: 19 minsIf it is any slower, get the firmware and software upgrades.Oh, and anyone who uses it to put "DISC 1 - COLLECTION OF MISC STUFF" is just dumb, get a sharpie.
elpayoOct 19, 2006
LightScribe on Macs has been available for a while now. LaCie released a DVD burner with LightScribe support and software almost a year ago. How do I know? I have one in my G5.The only news here is that now you can burn a LightScribe CD in Linux. Title should be "LightScribe laser-etching drives come to Linux"