Topic: new lightscribe dvd/cdr writer

[Lesmond (OP)]

Well I am quite impressed so far, a little slow, but the finished print is not too bad, only done two discs here is a copy of the first one..




you only get gray scale, a normal disc will take up to ten mins with lot to print, and you will never run out of ink.
sorry I am not much good at writing these reviews  :beg:

link to the site http://www.lightscribe.co.uk/

[Ken]

Looks good Les. 

Have not tried mine yet, gotta get some Light Scribe discs to soon and see how it works.
So, it won't let you do colors?

[Lesmond (OP)]

I got 50 discs for ?5.00 about $7.50 I think

No they dont do colors

[Ken]

Ah well... they'll likely do that at some point.

[Lesmond (OP)]

ummm not sure if we will ever get color, got to be some special drive that could do that, and use some sort of ink.

The way it is now no ink is used, just the laser to burn the image to the disc!

[Sport]

they will eventually put colored layers on the Disc and the intensity of the burn will determine which layer is exposed

[LoneWolf_53]

I've had one of those units installed in my backup PC for almost a year and have never gotten around to buying lightscribe disks to try it out.   :bigteeth:


Looks cool though Les.

[Lesmond (OP)]

I have a "lableflash" writer already on my pc, but the price for discs is far too much, like $2 or $3 for each disc, no way I would pay that, and that is still not color print.

Why pay that much when you get the same thing for 30c a disc or less, and the drive only cost $25 !

[Ken]

Here in the States you can find the discs' at BestBuy and others for about 80-90 cents for CD's and about $1 for DVD.
(Memorex - Cool Colors 25-Pack LightScribe 16x DVD+R Disc Spindle - Multicolor = $20.99)

I don't expect to ever use very many of them, so a 25-pack will probably be all that I ever need.  :08:

[Skhilled]

they will eventually put colored layers on the Disc and the intensity of the burn will determine which layer is exposed

That what I was thinking.

I've had a lightscribe for about a year or 2 now. I've only burned 2 discs with the laser...just to see what it looked like. The better the quality you use, the longer it takes to burn. The good thing is that you can use any image program to create what you want on it.

[Ken]

I want to try it of course, so I'll pick up some LS discs soon... but as mentioned, my use will be very limited so for the most part any discs that are burned will be on my desktop. Lots cheaper, lots faster and the ole marker pen works just fine.

[Skhilled]

I haven't burned a lot of things lately either. I do need to make a good backup of my hd.

[Ken]

I haven't burned a lot of things lately either. I do need to make a good backup of my hd.

Don't even mention bu hdd!!!  :yikes:


For some time now I've been saying that all my stuff needs to be copied off so that Vista can be dumped and XP Pro installed on my desktop PC.
Too much work and me too lazy.  :undecided2:

[Skhilled]

Yeah, I want to clear out my c: and make it my d:

[Sport]

after a year of DVD copies ....I just throw in a secondary (usually external USB) Hard Drive ...do a disc copy and archive the old one,  pull the new one out of the case and install as c:... throw a label on the old one, and into a drawer!!! OS... registry...programs ....files ...all saved!!!!!

[Ken]

Keith, that's not a bad plan actually, it would be lots easier to do then would CD/DVD's that's for sure. 

That had been forced on me a year or so back when the MB died in one of my PC's so the HDD from it was placed in an external USB case and attached to another PC. It still is and it still has the OS on it, plus all of my data of course.

[Skhilled]

I thought about doing that but then I'd have to buy a new usb stick just to hold all of it.

[Ken]

I thought about doing that but then I'd have to buy a new usb stick just to hold all of it.

Not sure if Keith was talking about a USB thumb drive, but I took it to be an external hard drive enclosure attached to the desktop by a USB cable... that's what I have on mine now. (250GB drive)

[Lesmond (OP)]

I have 2 external usb drives, a 180gb and a 300gb, plus 1 extra 1tb internal drive, main drive is 750gb, so plenty of space to save stuff, the 300gb has 122gb of music, 30,200 tracks, plus 64.0 GB/25.000  Karaoke tracks

[Sport]

Ken has it ...Buy a new hard Drive in April, or when ever money is available... HDD's are cheap ...Take last years drive; do a disc copy, with whatever your favorite method is ( I use Maxtor drives and use "Maxblaster") after the Copy is complete...put the new HDD in as your primary ...and you're good to go for another year and a HDD crash within the first year is VERY rare Actually you don't even need an external if you have an open bay.....the variations are many..but you get the idea

[Skhilled]

Sorry, I missed the external part. LOL

I like Maxtor's also and will usually buy them. I've never bought an external but am either going to build a new PC or seriously upgrade this one in a few months. My case has 4 slots for cd/dvd drives, 2 for floppies, and 3 for hd's. I usually won't buy a case with anything less. Then I can add card reader's, extra drives, etc. later.

I usually do it as you described but with internal drives. I'll probably end up buying a new internal hd to back up both of my drives, reformat, swap them and then restore the backups.