Lightscribe Disc Labeling System - Creating your own disc image
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When you are recording with a Lightscribe disc, it’s recommended that you burn your data onto the data side of the disc first. Like a normal CD/DVD recorder, you place the data side down, record your data onto the disc.
Here is what I decided to burn as a demo. It’s smoke. The disc will turn it into mono-color, and we can see just how defined the white streams will be on the disc.
The print menu displays all of the settings available for Lightscribe. When a Lightscribe device is recognized and quality is set to best, all you have to do is click OK to burn. A confirmation message will display to ensure you’ve got the label side flipped over.
When the recording process is completed, the software will ask you if you want to print a Lightscribe label. If you choose to, you have to manually flip the disc so that the label side is now faced down and data is faced up. In the imaging software, you can quickly insert text or dates and label the disc. There is also a wide variety of templates that you can use. But one of the best features is that you can place your own image onto the disc, including images, text, or an actual scan of an original CD or DVD label and actually burn it into the disc. This is great for backup copies of discs!
Here you can see the burned smoke disc pictured above. Burned at only medium quality it looks fairly decent. You can tell it is definitely a smoke design. A closer look at the disc shows the true details of the disc.
Here is a super close up of the disc, you can see the lines that were burned as the disc rotated, the lines are sort of faint on the smoke disc, the other disc I created was on best quality and was black text. At a normal eyes distance, they’re both amazing quality.
The actual creation time of the label depends on the quality level desired. The standard draft, normal and best quality levels are available. Best quality takes a little over 30 minutes to create but does offer a slightly higher more defined label, which is recommended for small images on the disc. For most image printouts, the normal is sufficient, although a few instances I had printed on normal and then reprinted under draft to increase the quality to a level that was sufficient.
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