NEC drives to feature labelling technology from Yamaha

31 Aug 05 17:04 by Crabbyappleton in category Uncategorized

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Liggy, our Site Administrator used the news submit during a (very rare) free moment at work to quickly translate this Heise article for us English speaking CD Freaks.

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width=132 align=right border=0>Yamaha expanded their T@2 technology to a new LabelFlash technology which allows labelling your discs with your burner”s laser within 5 minutes. On the back of their reflection layer, LabelFlash discs have a coloured area that”s used by the burner for labelling the disc. Since the colour is on the back of the reflection layer, it is protected by a 0.6 mm polycarbonate disc. Disc prices are expected to be about 20% higher than for current discs. CD-R with this technique are not planned at the moment. The first burners supporting this technology will be the half height drive ND3551A and ND4551A and the slimline drive ND7551A from NEC.

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Those of us that can speak German may wish to visit this Heise link and to view the original source detailing this new labelling technique. Thanks Liggy, for giving us a heads up on this story, we have to think that this will light a fire under any posible advancements in LightScribe which takes considerably longer to label with. The sample here doesn’t look too bad. Plus it is a color other than Sepia. We have to wonder what other colors are possible.

Source: Heise

11 Comments on NEC drives to feature labelling technology from Yamaha

shimman: Posts: 596; Posted on: 31 Aug 05 17:20

great, but will the disks be available for reasonable prices & availability? for 5 min burn, not bad but still lightscribe seems better in terms of quality

Crabbyappleton: Posts: 5759; Posted on: 31 Aug 05 17:52

"Disc prices are expected to be about 20% higher than for current discs."

I Have Piles: Posts: 586; Posted on: 31 Aug 05 18:33

Why bother with this when a 60 quid inkjet printer can do full colour in no time at all

jsl: Posts: 884; Posted on: 31 Aug 05 18:44

NEC's official press release

_chef_: Posts: 30613; Posted on: 31 Aug 05 21:33

I think that's a good step, pressure for Lightscribe.

ItalianJob: Posts: 959; Posted on: 31 Aug 05 21:35

Thank you jsl for the real source... :d

kwkard: Posts: 1813; Posted on: 31 Aug 05 23:46

Awesomeness. I still have my Yamaha CRW-F1 with disc T@2

So am I to understand it refocuses the laser to another "layer" for labeling so that you don't flip the disc?

Liggy: Posts: 8210; Posted on: 01 Sep 05 07:53

From what I understand, the coloured area is on the back of the reflection layer. This means that you will have to flip your discs.

kwkard: Posts: 1813; Posted on: 01 Sep 05 09:22

Oh thanks for the info. Sounds like an interesting new tech to play with. Lightscribe is cool, but 27 minutes a disc, not very cool.

keyn: Posts: 8; Posted on: 01 Sep 05 17:03

Press release ; PDF file and image removed from NEC's official site

G_E_M_S: Posts: 24; Posted on: 18 Oct 05 20:38

i have Yamaha CRW-F1 with disc T@2 and it was cool at all. the qulity was prety good but it took free space from he disc and it took about a 21 min to burn a full Labeles CD

NEC drives to feature labelling technology from Yamaha

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NEC drives to feature labelling technology from Yamaha

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