Interesting lightscribe on non-lightscribe disk.

Friend of mine tried to burn a single line of text on a background
of clouds using a NON-lightscribe disk. The cheapo disks without any
coating on the top side.
The text came out very dark black and clear.
The whole rest of the disk had a square array of little squares
about .040" on a side. The squares burned clear thru the shiny backing
surface. Was quite a sight.

I can understand the burning thru, but can't understand the fact that
the text printed when there was nothing to print on. Don't think he
was BS-ing me????

This is a smart guy who runs a computer operation for a local company.
He got the drive without documentation from a customer who claimed it
was rendering his previously burned CDs unreadable. I expect this
ignorance of details is gonna cause the drive vendors a lot of bad press
when Suzy Homemaker burns up all the digital pictures of her kids.

It just gets curiouser and curiouser.

mike


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Nothing is idiot proof. There are still loads of people trying to burn at
32x on 12x CDRW discs, and trying to burn 32x CDRW media in 4x rated CDRW
drives. This in spite of the clear warnings and instructions printed on the
packaging.


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Friend of mine tried to burn a single line of text on a background
of clouds using a NON-lightscribe disk. The cheapo disks without any
coating on the top side.
The text came out very dark black and clear.
The whole rest of the disk had a square array of little squares
about .040" on a side. The squares burned clear thru the shiny backing
surface. Was quite a sight.

I can understand the burning thru, but can't understand the fact that
the text printed when there was nothing to print on. Don't think he
was BS-ing me????

This is a smart guy who runs a computer operation for a local company.
He got the drive without documentation from a customer who claimed it
was rendering his previously burned CDs unreadable. I expect this
ignorance of details is gonna cause the drive vendors a lot of bad press
when Suzy Homemaker burns up all the digital pictures of her kids.

It just gets curiouser and curiouser.

mike


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MAKE THE OBVIOUS CHANGES TO THE LINK
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Shouldn't the industry take some blame for not designing their products
to be more idiot-proof (or at least more user-friendly)??

Who other than techno-nerds can differentiate normal speed from high
speed from ultra speed CDRW? Trying to understand the difference
between CDR & CDRW is already hard enough without having to worry about
writing speed, DAO, TAO, multisession, etc etc.