Well, my 10.1 Premiere install disk is scratched, and I can't even copy it to another disk so that I can reinstall the software on the new machine I'm building. I used Roxio's Express labeler V3 that came with Roxio 10.1 Premiere. I want to use one of my i7s to do DVD and CD creation, and label on that machine as well. While Lightscribe does take a while to work, I have been using a nearly dedicated machine for labeling for years now - a P4EE with XP, 4 GB memory, and XP. HP disks, my old standard, are nonexistent. The price has shot through the roof, and few people carry any. I've been away for almost a year and a half, came back to do some archiving, and - since I'm running low on media, went looking for some. I have a few spare Lightscribe DVD writers, because I used Lightscribe almost exclusively for labeling, since it was so much neater and more legible. It is very hard to find Lightscribe disks anymore. A while ago I tried to retrieve the data from a bunch of CDs and, guess what, ALL the discs with labels were unreadable. Once upon a time I was very naive and used sticking labels on some CDs. Anything is better than using paper labels. OK, it didn't end up working out as well as hoped, but at its best some of the labels I've seen did turn out pretty well and they were a lot better than #1, #2 and #3. LightScribe was a well intentioned cost effective way to provide a cheaper alternative to #4. But at least with those you could do art designs on the discs. I think they cost around $80-90 at the time.Ĥ) Using ink jet printable discs which I mentioned used printers that cost $300 at the time. And you had to buy a special device just to do the thermal label printing. I'm not sure if this is still true, but at the time I think you were limited to text and numbers with this. That's a TERRIBLE idea as we've mentioned many times here.ģ) Using thermal printable discs. Keep in mind that the alternatives at the time were:ġ) Printing out paper labels. I guess some people really have too much time on their hands.
It's beyond me how certain "inventions" come to see the light of day. I'm not sure, but I think I read somewhere that Verbatim may have stopped making LightScribe discs, and that's not good at all. If you can find software then use up your discs as quickly as you can and abandon the format. Given that it was taking 20 minutes to burn ONE LightScribe label and they rarely turned out dark enough, this format is just a loser all around. Although my old LightScribe labels are stored out of direct sunlight in temperature controlled conditions, many of my labels have already started to fade and some of them will be completely unreadable in a few more years. The drive quickly went downhill after that little experiment, so I never tried that again. It did make the burn darker - at the cost of seriously messing up my drive. My burns were almost never really dark enough and once I tried the trick of burning the same image a 2nd time. EVERY drive I ever used LightScribe with died an early death. The quality of ink jet labels on discs like Taiyo Yuden's Watershield brand is a million times better than anything LightScribe can do. I used to support LightScribe here, but even I gave up after printer costs dropped. I used LightScribe when it first came out as the alternative, printing to discs, was insanely expensive with printers that could do that costing something like $300 US at the time.
If you can't live without it, you may need to buy a commercial product at this point. There are two or three programs on cnet for LightScribe, but people are saying they don't work, come with malware, etc.ĭoes anyone know of any LightScribe freeware still out there that's reliable? (I even checked to see if there was anything on my computer's old hard drive that might help me, but it seems I junked the old drive and then forgot having done so.)Īcoustica's CD/DVD Label Maker program (NOT free) supports LightScribe. Sure Thing wants $30 for LightScribe software, ArcSoft apparently cut their ties, HP which is apparently big into selling LightScribe discs seems to have NOTHING, and as mentioned, the LightScribe website seems to be gone. Can't even find the LightScribe website any more. They were both freeware, but I can't find any out there. I'd used ArcSoft (which turned out to have some bad stuff included which it was like pulling teeth to get rid of) and "Sure Thing" software.
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It's been months since I've switched my computer over from XP to Windows 7, and it only dawned on me a few days ago I need to put LightScribe software on the new installation.
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