Throwback to lightscribe which I haven't thought of in many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe

danielmeskin 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Glad I read the article, this is fascinating:

> In 2012, a LightScribe optical drive was successfully used by Maher El-Kady, a graduate of UCLA, to turn a specially prepared graphite oxide layer coated onto a DVD into graphene.[10] El-Kady and Richard Kaner, his lab professor, used an unmodified LightScribe drive. The disc was prepared by coating the disc with an aqueous solution of graphite oxide and allowing it to dry. Areas of the coating illuminated by the LightScribe laser were turned into graphene. Various shapes can be drawn, which allowed the scientist duo essentially to laser-print an ultracapacitor on graphene using consumer-grade technology.

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QuantumNomad_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have a LightScribe compatible external CD/DVD burner. It came with a LightScribe disc that I haven’t taken the plastic off still to this day. Since it only came with a single one I could never decide which one thing to use that one LightScribe disc for, back when I was still burning things on CD and DVD.

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sam1714 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You didn't miss much. It took 20-30 minutes each pass, plus the extra cost for the discs.

But even if you were fine with that, it came out too light under actual lighting conditions, even after you burned it twice, which defeats the use case of making it look professionally labeled. For home use, a Sharpie beat it in every way.

	▲	TurkTurkleton 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Huh, that wasn't my experience. I mean, it absolutely was slow especially with sufficiently complex labels, but they generally came out fine. Granted, you absolutely couldn't just drop any arbitrary image into the LightScribe software and have it come out looking good, you'd have to mess with the contrast, but black-and-white text and line art would come out fine. And more legible than Sharpie, with my handwriting.

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OptionOfT 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have the same issue in video games. I always end up at the end not having used my unique items because I only have 1.

	▲	unpleasurable 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		same but brain

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xattt 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

DiscT@2 (1), the granddaddy of them all.

This was followed up by Labelflash in 2007(2).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiscT@2

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labelflash

	▲	jonah-archive 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I still have a DiscT@2 capable drive running (a Yamaha CRW-F1), though I haven't tried the imaging capability in... geez, 20 years.

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Breakthrough 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I had one of these as well... What a trip down memory lane, thanks for sharing.