Lightscribe in Windows 8

On 3/15/2014, Keith Nuttle posted:
On 3/15/2014 12:50 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:43:07 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

How do people label CD/DVD's?

My wife requires professionally looking CD/DVD. Those marked with
a
magic marker do not cut it. Magic Marker or grease pencil or
whatever.

Can you use reliably use stick-on labels on DVD/CD without
damaging the
CD/DVD

I used to buy the ones that you can print in an inkjet printer. To
a casual
observer, they looked pretty professional. I haven't burned a CD or
DVD in
quite a few years, though. I consider the technology to be
obsolete.


My wife paints in acrylics on canvas. Until a few years ago art
shows, and galleries would only accept slide submission. At the end,
you had to run around town looking for slide film, take the pictures,
and then find someone to develop the slides.

Finally they decided slides were obsolete, and started taking
electronic submission. Now, most want CD/DVD with the images of the
paintings. Very few will consider an electronic transfer of the
images by email, and currently there are no other options.

I doubt they are the only groups and companies that are struggling to
convert to electronic media.

In highly regulated industries like the pharmaceutical and medical
industry, I suspect slides are still used, as the validation of the
system of storage. is much easier than a large data collection
system.

In the medical industry in the US, a lot of information has to be
faxed, not e-mailed.

They have gotten past requiring stuff to be sent on paper via a courier
on horseback, but only just.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:43:07 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

From the discussion and from the links that have been posted, it
appears that LightScribe is dead, just like many other HP products they
fail to support after Microsoft upgrades their operation system

That leads to the next question.

How do people label CD/DVD's?

I have been using Accoustica CD/DVD Label Maker for many years and it
suits my requirements adequately.

My printer (a middle aged Canon MP610) serves me well for printing CD
labels. Although Canon provides a label printing program, it falls
short of what I wanted. For example, in the samples below, I wanted
to follow the two colour scheme used by EaseUS in its name. I could
not do that in the Canon program. With the Accoustica program, I only
needed to type "EaseUS" and then I could high light any of the letters
and change their colour. Also, printing curved titles has suited my
wish at times.

I have posted 3 samples at Tinypic which also show that there are two
different hole sizes on a printable CD. The larger hole often
describes the CD as "printable" and the smaller hole is sometimes
labelled "full printable".

http://tinypic.com/r/25tdpvk/8

http://tinypic.com/r/14ca8hz/8

http://tinypic.com/r/2rcbreo/8


My wife requires professionally looking CD/DVD. Those marked with a
magic marker do not cut it. Magic Marker or grease pencil or whatever.

Can you use reliably use stick-on labels on DVD/CD without damaging the
CD/DVD

My recommendation would be NO! NO! NO!

Many years ago, I did use stick-on labels and within a short number of
years I discovered that I could not read some of my CDs. This was
attributed by others to be directly caused by the glue on the labels.
I also read of cries for help of "I can't get my CD out of the drive
because the label seems to be coming off the CD".

HTH,

On 3/15/2014 2:51 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On 3/15/2014, Keith Nuttle posted:
On 3/15/2014 12:50 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:43:07 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

How do people label CD/DVD's?

My wife requires professionally looking CD/DVD. Those marked with a
magic marker do not cut it. Magic Marker or grease pencil or
whatever.

Can you use reliably use stick-on labels on DVD/CD without damaging the
CD/DVD

I used to buy the ones that you can print in an inkjet printer. To a
casual
observer, they looked pretty professional. I haven't burned a CD or
DVD in
quite a few years, though. I consider the technology to be obsolete.


My wife paints in acrylics on canvas. Until a few years ago art
shows, and galleries would only accept slide submission. At the end,
you had to run around town looking for slide film, take the pictures,
and then find someone to develop the slides.

Finally they decided slides were obsolete, and started taking
electronic submission. Now, most want CD/DVD with the images of the
paintings. Very few will consider an electronic transfer of the images
by email, and currently there are no other options.

I doubt they are the only groups and companies that are struggling to
convert to electronic media.

In highly regulated industries like the pharmaceutical and medical
industry, I suspect slides are still used, as the validation of the
system of storage. is much easier than a large data collection system.

In the medical industry in the US, a lot of information has to be faxed,
not e-mailed.

They have gotten past requiring stuff to be sent on paper via a courier
on horseback, but only just.

I was not thinking of the things like COA and similar data that has to
be transferred, but the archiving on production, testing, and Quality
Assurance reports. There is only one Analytical lab that I am aware of
that put the client project data on CD for achieving.

This is not a problem with the pharmaceutical industry but the
government regulation. The Government says if there is a one in a
trillion chance of something happening then it must be consider a
routing occurrence.

I laughed at the new reports of the evil drug company that would not
give the experimental drug to the little boy with the disease the drug
was being developed to treat.

If a company gave an unapproved drug to the boy, the FDA would have
destroyed the company, and what was left would have been taken by the
lawyers in malpractice law suites.

So much for our talking heads who do not spin the news to accomplish
their own ends