Lightscribe on PC's

[Caca de Kick]

Stupid question time....
Home computers that say "Lightscribe" on the CD-R burner portion of it.
What the heck does that do? Is that just a fancy name for the actual disc burner part, or does that allow me to do something on the top of the disc?

[Nino Valenti]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lightscribe

[Nino Valenti]

I've never used it but you can scribe pics, text, etc on the face of a disc and have music/data on the other side.

[jmattbassplaya]

It`ll put titles on your discs. It`s pretty neat but I never use it

[Sevente]

Have had quite a bit of experience with these - basically it uses the laser to 'etch' an image or text onto the Lightscribe dye layer on top of the disc. The final image/text looks pretty crisp and nice, only in monochrome though. Requires special discs which come in certain colours (gold was the most common for a while but I think there are more now).
Biggest issue for me is the time it takes to burn - a label can take around 20 - 30 mins to burn.

[Caca de Kick]

Har! Thanks Nino and the rest.

[DWBass]

I have an external Lightscribe cd/dvd burner. The downside is you have to buy Lightscribe discs. Screw that. A marker works fine for me!

[Pruitt]

I've had and used a few different Lightscribe drives over the years. Like has already been stated, they're slow. But I still use mine when creating CD's for others, with track info, etc. I've also burned a number of images on some CD's as well. Sort of like Cover Art. I find the Lightscrbe drives pretty useful. Though if I'm making a simple CD for myself, I'll use a Sharpie, and just write on the CD. But it does do a pretty nice job when making production style CD's for others in small batches.