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| 407934 | 2005-11-26 08:52:00 | Hi,I'm thinking of buying another DVD writer with 'Lightscribe',has anyone had any experiences with this particular product? good or bad? cheers ruup |
ruup (1827) | ||
| 407935 | 2005-11-26 09:03:00 | LightScribe is a new technology that Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced for labelling CD and DVD discs . The basic idea is that you buy a CD or DVD burner that supports the LightScribe technology, then buy CD or DVD discs that are specially coated on the non-data side to work with the LightScribe drives . Finally, after you burn data onto your disc, you can just pop it out, flip it over, and use a special software application to have the drive burn a "silkscreen quality" image of your choice right into the disc . This solution may offer more safety than labels that can come unglued, or inks that may penetrate the media and damage data . The official HP Light Scribe site displays an image of a LightScribe labelled disc . How long does it take to burn a label? The LightScribe FAQ gives a range of from 2 minutes for printing a simple text label to 20 minutes for a label with lots of graphics . The FAQ claims that printing can take place in the background, so it does not tie up your computer (although, obviously, you won't be able to do anything else with the drive that is burning the label until it completes) . The same laser that performs normal data reading and writing in the drive also handles burning the desired image into the specially-coated disc . The image is a grey-scale image, not color (though color LightScribe might be coming), so if color is a requirement you will have to investigate other labelling options . HP is licensing the LightScribe technology to others who manufacture drives and discs, leaving it to them to make the actual products . It's not clear who will develop the necessary software needed for making the burners create graphical images . |
maverickoc (7240) | ||
| 407936 | 2005-11-26 09:08:00 | Nero supports lightscribe burners. Taken from the help file / V7 of Nero. LightScribe System requirements To create LightScribe labels, separate hardware and software system requirements need to be considered. Operating system Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Server Windows Media Center Edition 2004 or larger Software Nero 6.6.0.8 (or higher) LightScribe Host Software must be installed Hardware LightScribe compatible recorder LightScribe suitable disc |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 407937 | 2005-11-26 09:25:00 | Last time I looked it took over half an hour to do, They were trying to improve that time but I cant say I have seen any annoncement regarding success. Price of media is also something to be looked into,and look up a couple reviews of the specific model. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 407938 | 2005-11-26 17:35:00 | LightScribe is a new technology that Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced for labelling CD and DVD discs . The basic idea is that you buy a CD or DVD burner that supports the LightScribe technology, then buy CD or DVD discs that are specially coated on the non-data side to work with the LightScribe drives . Finally, after you burn data onto your disc, you can just pop it out, flip it over, and use a special software application to have the drive burn a "silkscreen quality" image of your choice right into the disc . This solution may offer more safety than labels that can come unglued, or inks that may penetrate the media and damage data . The official HP Light Scribe site displays an image of a LightScribe labelled disc . How long does it take to burn a label? The LightScribe FAQ gives a range of from 2 minutes for printing a simple text label to 20 minutes for a label with lots of graphics . The FAQ claims that printing can take place in the background, so it does not tie up your computer (although, obviously, you won't be able to do anything else with the drive that is burning the label until it completes) . The same laser that performs normal data reading and writing in the drive also handles burning the desired image into the specially-coated disc . The image is a grey-scale image, not color (though color LightScribe might be coming), so if color is a requirement you will have to investigate other labelling options . HP is licensing the LightScribe technology to others who manufacture drives and discs, leaving it to them to make the actual products . It's not clear who will develop the necessary software needed for making the burners create graphical images . Actual author of the above post . ( . backupcritic . com/faq/lightscribe/what . html" target="_blank">www . backupcritic . com) Maverickoc, it is bad manners to rip off someone's else comments as your own . Please state in further that it is a copy/quote and supply a link to give credit to the original author, it is only courteous . |
Jen (38) | ||
| 407939 | 2005-11-26 23:28:00 | Review: www.cdfreaks.com The basics: "The main negative points: DVD-R write quality is suspect on the sample drive provided by HP producing many coasters. An optimized USB bridge and drive firmware may have produced a full 16x write speed on USB, maybe HP can fix this in an update. Media overspeed support is less important as more 16x certified media shows on the market each month. To sum it all up, this is what we would say: “Overall, this drive with the tested firmware is a poor effort for a DVD writer. " Gimmicky in my opinion. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 407940 | 2005-11-29 08:43:00 | Hi,I'm thinking of buying another DVD writer with 'Lightscribe',has anyone had any experiences with this particular product? good or bad? cheers ruup I went to PBTech in Hamilton 10 days ago and bought exactly (on the outside of the box) a DVD640i. On installing on my WinXP Pro system it worked perfectly. Made labels as advertised and burned disks. The software this drive came with was the installation disk plus a lightscribe installation CD. I bought 30 silkscreen coated CDs at the same time to do the labelling. After installing the DVD writer it came up as a HPdvd640C rather than a 640dvdI. I have used only 5 of the media I bought and the DVD writer does not work any more. Software I installed was fine and worked for a few days but every time I rebooted the computer the HP software said there was a firmware update (JS04.EXE) and this could be installed via the Internet. Tried this before the drive died and got 5 mfc42.dll errors. Went to the HP web site in NZ and downloaded to my hard drive the said JS04.EXE file and tried that. Once more the dll errors OK. Got out another CDRom drive and had no problems with that set as master on same IDE cable. Decided to format C: drive and reinstall WinXP Pro SP2 in case the mfc42.dll file was corrupt. After reinstalling I put the HP640 back in again and the computer would not boot. I believe that PBTech in Hamilton will replace this drive but I am not really sure I want one any more. :-) I have done the Google thing and found that several people have had the same problem. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 407941 | 2005-11-29 23:25:00 | Thanks for the replies,sorry to hear about your experiences Elephant,but your post arrived after I recieved my new drive,so I'll be interested to see what happens,just as an aside did you update the firmware from the HP site? cheers ruup |
ruup (1827) | ||
| 407942 | 2005-12-10 07:22:00 | Hello I just purchased a new 640E with the Lightscribe technology and had full intentions of doing nicely burned CD's for Yule . I run ONLY W2003 servers and I have not been able to successfully install the HP drivers to start label my disc . Can burn all I want for Data just can't do the faces which was my whole motivation to buy it in the first place . You would think that they would support the latest OS (Behind the times) . Any ideas would be great -- have already tried running the * . msi from a flat on the drive . Thanks! |
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