Lightscribe worth it?

[treepop]

I was curious how good lightscribed discs looked. For my cd backups I wanted to put something on the disc other than my wretched handwritting. I currently do not own a lightscribe capable cd burner, so I was curious how they looked.

Would I be able to get a cd label off a site and just plop it into a lightscribe program and have it be replicated? It wouldn't be in color, but I am curious how it would look.

Thanks!

[AppleQueso]

If Google is anything to go off of, they don't look too different from those black and white greatest hits ps1 games.

[irixith]

This amused me: http://moderngadfly.blogspot.ca/2009/08 ... sucks.html

It's not THAT bad, especially if you have some cool monochromatic artwork/lettering. It really depends on how talented you can become with the lightscribe software. However, it still holds true today -- if you have an inkjet that can print on discs, it's a no-brainer which option you'd choose.

[treepop]

This amused me: http://moderngadfly.blogspot.ca/2009/08 ... sucks.html

It's not THAT bad, especially if you have some cool monochromatic artwork/lettering. It really depends on how talented you can become with the lightscribe software. However, it still holds true today -- if you have an inkjet that can print on discs, it's a no-brainer which option you'd choose.

Don't cd labels look awful? I don't know, it has been a while.

*Edit*

Maybe if I got some really glossy labels it would look nice...


*Edit #2*

Wont the labels add additional weight and burn out the cd drive in my saturn/dreamcast/ps2?

[elmagicochrisg]

Don't cd labels look awful?

Pretty sure irixith meant those discs with a white printable side.

Those look really nice actually... ^^




*click on image for article*

[treepop]

Don't cd labels look awful?

Pretty sure irixith meant those discs with a white printable side.

Those look really nice actually... ^^




*click on image for article*

Ah. Cool. Can you print on those with a standard laser jet?

[elmagicochrisg]

Ah. Cool. Can you print on those with a standard laser jet?

Nyet

[treepop]

Ah. Cool. Can you print on those with a standard laser jet?

Nyet

Thank you sir.

New printer vs lightscribe....arg

[elmagicochrisg]

New printer vs lightscribe....arg

It should be pretty obvious by now...

Hint: not lightscribe
Another hint: take a look at this poll.

[treepop]

New printer vs lightscribe....arg

It should be pretty obvious by now...

Hint: not lightscribe
Another hint: take a look at this poll.

It's even more obvious now. I didn't notice before that your images were links. I clicked and noticed the printer being talked about was the Epson R200. Since I have the R300 I figured it would be capable of doing this as well. After some rummaging I found the cd printing tray!

So I guess I know what I will be doing. Thanks for the insight everyone.

*EDIT*
These sites seems to have some CD art too.
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/game-box- ... ega/Saturn
http://covers.satakore.com/HTML/covers.htm