Tech Spotlight

A common and popular item for CD and DVD Burners nowadays is something called LightScribe.  With this technology you can burn pictures and text directly on a LightScribe medium by flipping over the optical media and running the appropriate software.  Although the output on the disc isn’t the greatest (black and grayscale only), it does save you from making standard paper labels.

More than likely any CD and DVD Burner manufactured in the last year or so will be capable of LightScribe, but check on the drive itself to make sure.  You will need the LightScribe software on your computer system to make this work, and it can be downloaded from here.  With that package you will also get a handy Contrast Utility which can lighten and darken the graphics burned on the disc.  Overall, LightScribe saves ink and labels, but in the process you sacrifice color and in-depth graphical images.