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From: John Jason Jordan on 23 Dec 2009 20:30
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:26:45 +0100
Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist(a)gmail.com> dijo:

>On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 22:12, John Jason Jordan <johnxj(a)comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>> 1) The image is black and white only
>
>Yes, I was aware of that. You can get colored CD/DVD blanks, though.
>
>
>> 3) The image quality sucks, although you can get better results by
>> burning twice.
>
>Doesn't LightScribe start at a random location, i.e. wouldn't burning
>twice mess everything up?

That's what I thought too, but I read somewhere that you just do it
again. However *do not eject the media before redoing the image*.
Apparently that is the secret. I have done it, so I can vouch that it
works, and it does improve the image.

>> I still want to be able to put an image on a CD or DVD, but I guess
>> the only way to do that properly is with an inkjet. But if I do it
>> only once every few months I'll have clogged jets, wasted ink from
>> cleaning, and constant headaches. So I just continue to use a
>> sharpie.
>
>I use sharpies as well, but having seen pictures of LightScribe-enabled
>disks, I want to try it, at least.
>Also, I read that there has been an update which improves image
>quality.

I still want an inkjet. But I want one that doesn't clog up and require
constant wet-nursing.

One of my motivations is to make distro CDs (especially Ubuntu) to give
to Windows users to try out. (Also OpenOffice.org.) I have done this in
the past, but they don't trust a CD that I hand them with stuff written
with a sharpie. They have heard so much about malware that they thank
me, then throw the disk in the closest trashcan as soon as I am out of
sight. If the disk looked "official" it would help a lot.


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From: Richard Hartmann on 24 Dec 2009 03:00
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 02:21, John Jason Jordan <johnxj(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> That's what I thought too, but I read somewhere that you just do it
> again. However *do not eject the media before redoing the image*.
> Apparently that is the secret. I have done it, so I can vouch that it
> works, and it does improve the image.

Apparently, it uses the barcode on the upper side to align correctly.
You can even burn 'multisession' with it.


> I still want an inkjet. But I want one that doesn't clog up and require
> constant wet-nursing.

The professional ones don't but they cost a _lot_ more than the
common 'give away the lamp, sell the oil' models.


> One of my motivations is to make distro CDs (especially Ubuntu) to give
> to Windows users to try out. (Also OpenOffice.org.) I have done this in
> the past, but they don't trust a CD that I hand them with stuff written
> with a sharpie. They have heard so much about malware that they thank
> me, then throw the disk in the closest trashcan as soon as I am out of
> sight. If the disk looked "official" it would help a lot.

There is shipit for Ubuntu, though the wisdom of suggesting _that_
particular distro to people you consider friends.. ;)


Richard

PS: It's christmas, please don't reply to the last paragraph ;)


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From: Richard Hartmann on 24 Dec 2009 10:30
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 21:28, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. LaCiE
> seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on
> Linux, but I am loath to try it for the simple reason that it's closed.

Fwiw, there are more more current packages out there and they
are in deb, nor rpm, format:

http://www.lightscribe.com/go/downloads/linux/


Richard


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From: Paul Johnson on 3 Jan 2010 17:10
John Jason Jordan wrote:

> I still want to be able to put an image on a CD or DVD, but I guess the
> only way to do that properly is with an inkjet. But if I do it only
> once every few months I'll have clogged jets, wasted ink from cleaning,
> and constant headaches. So I just continue to use a sharpie.

I don't know if your local jurisdiction does this, but one thing you
might want to look into is government surplus sales. I once got a used
color laser printer in working condition with all new high-capacity
cartridges already loaded in it for $90 from the Oregon Department of
Surplus Property. If you're near one, I can't reccommend the government
auctions enough.



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From: John Jason Jordan on 3 Jan 2010 18:20
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:37:14 -0800
Paul Johnson <baloo(a)ursamundi.org> dijo:

>John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> I still want to be able to put an image on a CD or DVD, but I guess
>> the only way to do that properly is with an inkjet. But if I do it
>> only once every few months I'll have clogged jets, wasted ink from
>> cleaning, and constant headaches. So I just continue to use a
>> sharpie.
>
>I don't know if your local jurisdiction does this, but one thing you
>might want to look into is government surplus sales. I once got a used
>color laser printer in working condition with all new high-capacity
>cartridges already loaded in it for $90 from the Oregon Department of
>Surplus Property. If you're near one, I can't reccommend the
>government auctions enough.

Actually, I know about Oregon auctions, and they are near enough for
me. But I already have a color laser printer. What I need is something
to print color graphics on optical media. And I want to produce just a
few copies only once in a while.

If there was an inexpensive color laser printer that would do optical
media that would be great.


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