HP announces the LightScribe label technology

HP has invented a new technology
to label your CDs and DVDs which uses your CD/DVD burner's laser to create a
professional looking label. When you have burned a disc you simply just flip the
disc over and burn the label on the other side. According to HP it has licensee
deals with Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc., Toshiba, Mitsubishi Chemical Company,
MicroVision Development, Moser Baer India Limited and Sonic Solutions Software
with more deals to be announced in the coming months.




LightScribe Direct Disc
Labeling technology requires three elements:

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'¢ LightScribe-enabled
optical disc drive (ODD) '“ Minor, low-cost modifications to the optical
disc drive provide for validation of media types and control of sled
position, spindle speed and focus to burn the label on
LightScribe-compatible media


 

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'¢ LightScribe-compatible
media '“ A micro-thin, low-cost coating of a highly specialized material
enables a LightScribe-enabled ODD laser to impart energy to the label side
of compatible media. Consumers can readily identify LightScribe-compatible
media through the LightScribe logo, found on media packaging and in the
lower hub of every disc



LightScribe-supported software applications '“ Licensed software
applications tap lower-level software system services to connect the user
experience to the firmware controls, delivering the user's desired label
to the imaging system


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The method of using the burner's
laser to create a label is however not a complete new invention as Yamaha
accomplished this with the DiscT@2 technology too. But contrary of the DiscT@2 technology
the LightScribe technology burns the label on top of the disc and not on the
recording side.
You
can find the complete press release from HP here (PDF).  

Source: HP

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