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rave about how good those would be. M-Disc is an example
of polycarbonate discs with an entirely different active
material inside, where the manufacturer raves about the
chemical used. (Drives today may be "listed" to burn
M-Discs, so its a term you can look for in the specs,
like looking for LightScribe support.) Lightscribe was
a chemical layer that turns color when blasted by the
laser, and the user can place a monochrome label on the
disc after the data burn is complete. Lightscribe gets
darker, the more times you burn the pattern into the disc.
(It means applying a label can take just as long as
the data burn itself, doubling your production time.)
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Isn't Lightscribe on the other side of the disc?

I've not seen lightscribe discs for sale for years - are they still
made? And, although I made sure to get a lightscribe-capable drive last
time I bought one (the external one for this machine), I've never loaded
any special softwa presumably you need to do so to design (and burn?)
the labels. (You say they get darker the more times you burn them: does
that mean that that side of the discs have an absolute start point the
burner can detect, so you _can_ burn them a second and subsequent time,
and they line up? And if that's true - and sounds as if it should be -
then presumably _that_ part of the burn _would_ be more effective if
done at a slower speed.)

I used Lightscribe a fair amount for a more or less personal music cd of
myself playing guitar. Was nice could give frinds etc. a copy of the
disk that looked professional, e.g. in a case with cover etc. and a disk
looked store bought.

VERY HARD to find any Lightscribe disks anymore. I liked them and still
have a couple drives with burn them. Note you had to turn them over to
burn the image side and Yes it took awhile, like 20 Min.