If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Rating: | Display Modes |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped
support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
Keith Nuttle wrote:
I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) Memorex makes a CD marker. Henry |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
In article , Keith Nuttle
writes I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) This may help :- http://www.avforums.com/threads/inkj...d-dvd.1542228/ Mike -- Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners. Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians. Yorkshire Halvard Lange |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
Mike Swift said on 5/13/2014 10:19 AM: In article , Keith Nuttle writes I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) This may help :- http://www.avforums.com/threads/inkj...d-dvd.1542228/ Mike Looking at boxes or Newegg etc you have to hunt for the info a bit, but my old Canon ip4000 died and I bought another Canon MG5420, Multifunction, did not see CD in the list of features, but when I got it home was so so happy and surprised to see the feature was there. I have a couple 100 printables CD/DVD's. I bought this software http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/ years ago and I notice it says supports lightscribe. Also see this link of theirs as well as the avforums link. http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/...se-support.htm |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
On 5/13/2014 10:35 AM, Big Al wrote:
Mike Swift said on 5/13/2014 10:19 AM: In article , Keith Nuttle writes I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) This may help :- http://www.avforums.com/threads/inkj...d-dvd.1542228/ Mike Looking at boxes or Newegg etc you have to hunt for the info a bit, but my old Canon ip4000 died and I bought another Canon MG5420, Multifunction, did not see CD in the list of features, but when I got it home was so so happy and surprised to see the feature was there. I have a couple 100 printables CD/DVD's. I bought this software http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/ years ago and I notice it says supports lightscribe. Also see this link of theirs as well as the avforums link. http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/...se-support.htm From the link you must be printing your CD labels and then appling them to the CD. Do you do it frequently, and have you had any problems. At one time they warned against appling labels to CD because it would cause problems at the speed the CD spins. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
Keith Nuttle said on 5/13/2014 12:18 PM: On 5/13/2014 10:35 AM, Big Al wrote: Mike Swift said on 5/13/2014 10:19 AM: In article , Keith Nuttle writes I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) This may help :- http://www.avforums.com/threads/inkj...d-dvd.1542228/ Mike Looking at boxes or Newegg etc you have to hunt for the info a bit, but my old Canon ip4000 died and I bought another Canon MG5420, Multifunction, did not see CD in the list of features, but when I got it home was so so happy and surprised to see the feature was there. I have a couple 100 printables CD/DVD's. I bought this software http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/ years ago and I notice it says supports lightscribe. Also see this link of theirs as well as the avforums link. http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/...se-support.htm From the link you must be printing your CD labels and then appling them to the CD. Do you do it frequently, and have you had any problems. At one time they warned against appling labels to CD because it would cause problems at the speed the CD spins. No, I have stopped printing labels, I print on printable Cd's now. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
"Big Al" schreef in bericht
eb.com... Mike Swift said on 5/13/2014 10:19 AM: In article , Keith Nuttle writes I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) This may help :- http://www.avforums.com/threads/inkj...d-dvd.1542228/ Mike Looking at boxes or Newegg etc you have to hunt for the info a bit, but my old Canon ip4000 died and I bought another Canon MG5420, Multifunction, did not see CD in the list of features, but when I got it home was so so happy and surprised to see the feature was there. I have a couple 100 printables CD/DVD's. I bought this software http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/ years ago and I notice it says supports lightscribe. Also see this link of theirs as well as the avforums link. http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/...se-support.htm I wonder is this printing technique on CD durable? Isn't the text easily wiped off with wet or greasy fingers? -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
Linea Recta wrote:
"Big schreef in bericht eb.com... Mike Swift said on 5/13/2014 10:19 AM: In , Keith Nuttle writes I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) This may help :- http://www.avforums.com/threads/inkj...d-dvd.1542228/ Mike Looking at boxes or Newegg etc you have to hunt for the info a bit, but my old Canon ip4000 died and I bought another Canon MG5420, Multifunction, did not see CD in the list of features, but when I got it home was so so happy and surprised to see the feature was there. I have a couple 100 printables CD/DVD's. I bought this software http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/ years ago and I notice it says supports lightscribe. Also see this link of theirs as well as the avforums link. http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/...se-support.htm I wonder is this printing technique on CD durable? Isn't the text easily wiped off with wet or greasy fingers? It is durable. I have several CD's I printed pictures and names in color and they have survived 6 or 8 years in my shop and truck. They do not smudge. You have to use "printable" cd blanks. -- GW Ross Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
"G. Ross" schreef in bericht
... Linea Recta wrote: "Big schreef in bericht eb.com... Mike Swift said on 5/13/2014 10:19 AM: In , Keith Nuttle writes I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) This may help :- http://www.avforums.com/threads/inkj...d-dvd.1542228/ Mike Looking at boxes or Newegg etc you have to hunt for the info a bit, but my old Canon ip4000 died and I bought another Canon MG5420, Multifunction, did not see CD in the list of features, but when I got it home was so so happy and surprised to see the feature was there. I have a couple 100 printables CD/DVD's. I bought this software http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/ years ago and I notice it says supports lightscribe. Also see this link of theirs as well as the avforums link. http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/...se-support.htm I wonder is this printing technique on CD durable? Isn't the text easily wiped off with wet or greasy fingers? It is durable. I have several CD's I printed pictures and names in color and they have survived 6 or 8 years in my shop and truck. They do not smudge. You have to use "printable" cd blanks. Sounds good, but I suppose printable CD/DVD are more expensive? Until now I've always used a hand marker. Of course this doesn't look as good, but also readability of my handwriting is very bad... -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
Linea Recta said on 5/13/2014 12:22 PM: "Big Al" schreef in bericht eb.com... Mike Swift said on 5/13/2014 10:19 AM: In article , Keith Nuttle writes I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) This may help :- http://www.avforums.com/threads/inkj...d-dvd.1542228/ Mike Looking at boxes or Newegg etc you have to hunt for the info a bit, but my old Canon ip4000 died and I bought another Canon MG5420, Multifunction, did not see CD in the list of features, but when I got it home was so so happy and surprised to see the feature was there. I have a couple 100 printables CD/DVD's. I bought this software http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/ years ago and I notice it says supports lightscribe. Also see this link of theirs as well as the avforums link. http://acoustica.com/cd-label-maker/...se-support.htm I wonder is this printing technique on CD durable? Isn't the text easily wiped off with wet or greasy fingers? Works great for me. You do have to give them a few minutes to dry of course. I've never put them in water to test that effect. And I try to only handle by the center hole. |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
|
#13
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
Keith Nuttle wrote, On 5/13/2014 6:14 AM:
I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) I believe Canon's Pixma Pro series (Pro-1, Pro-10, and Pro-100) inkjets all will print on CDs and DVDs with printable surfaces. These printers, however, are rather expensive - meant for high-quality photography renderings. Jeff Barnett |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
Hi, Keith.
I can think of 4 ways to label CDs/DVDs. Each way has pluses and minuses. All of them, of course, put the label on the top side of the disk, NOT the shiny side which has the actual recorded data. 1. Good old Magic Marker, grease pencil, fountain pen - or a modern replacement, not a ball-point pen. The advantages of this are obvious, and others in this thread have pointed out some drawbacks. 2. Print on paper labels and stick them onto the disk. In addition to other problems mentioned already, such as unbalancing at the CD/DVD player's high RPM, the label can come unglued, leaving a sticky mess INSIDE the player that can be hard or impossible to clean, perhaps destroying the drive. 3. You mentioned "printable CD". Print directly onto the surface of the disk? I think I've heard of such, but I've never seen a printer that can do it. They would need a straight-through paper path because the disks don't bend very well, with rollers set for very thick media - and probably special inks. 4. LightScribe, which does not use a printer at all, but uses the CD/DVD burner's laser to burn the image directly into the upper surface of the disk. I bought a couple of packages of these when I first heard of the technique and actually burned a few of them. (Several coasters, plus a couple that I was kind of proud of.) But I haven't done another one in about 5 years and the blank disks are still in the boxes. It was a great idea that just didn't fit me, I guess. Maybe it has speeded up by now, but the ones I did took a long time to burn the label into the disk. For a while, I burned a lot of CDs/DVDs. But now, most of my music is already done, and I no longer beta-test new operating systems, with a new build every month to download and burn. I seldom use optical media for backups, so I don't burn more than a half-dozen disks a year. And i long ago began to use RW disks, so each new beta build overwrote the previous version; I just X'ed out my first Magic Marker label and updated it - which I could not have done with LightScribe. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3528.0331) in Win8.1 Pro with Media Center "Keith Nuttle" wrote in message ... I have been using Lightscribe to Identify my CD. Then HP stopped support of that technique. Then some one developed printable CD. However in my search for a new printer, none seems to handle printable CD. Has that technology been thrown on to the scrap heap also? If so are there any other professional ways to ID CD? (magic marker is not acceptable.) |
#15
|
|||
|
|||
Identifying CD
In article , R. C.
White writes 3. You mentioned "printable CD". Print directly onto the surface of the disk? I think I've heard of such, but I've never seen a printer that can do it. They would need a straight-through paper path because the disks don't bend very well, with rollers set for very thick media - and probably special inks. My HP Photosmart D5460 prints disc perfectly, there's a drop down drawer and a cassette to put the disc in, this slides under the print heads so no need to go round in the same way paper does, it's all lined up automatically. The software that came with the printer can be used to design simple labels or you can drop in a pre designed one from a more professional application. Mike -- Michael Swift We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners. Kirkheaton We look on them only as rather mad Norwegians. Yorkshire Halvard Lange |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | Rate This Thread |
|
|