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OTHER THAN THE CD LABEL, WHAT CAN BE USED ON A CD FOR NAME, TITLES.... ANY SUGGESTIONS? 8)
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Its not real purdy, but Lightscribe is OK if you are making demos. Its grayscale in whatever color CD/DVD you print it on. It is a process where a Lightscribe DVD burner burns an image onto the top of the disc. You actually insert the CD/DVD upside down. It can take up to 1/2 hour to burn a graphically intensive one. The trick to speeding it up is to keep all the graphics contained in a circular path like the middle song on a vinyl album when you are looking at the rings.

I use it for my demos.
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You want to be careful with a sharpie. Depending on the Cd, or dvd, the lettering can show through the disk and cause it to skip.
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The labels can cause the CD not to play right in certain players, I had some trouble with them. Lightscribe is good if ya keep it simple.
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tonefight wrote:The labels can cause the CD not to play right in certain players, I had some trouble with them. Lightscribe is good if ya keep it simple.
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I had a terrible time with printed labels. Sometimes a disk would go bad 1/2 hour into it. Handing out bad disks is not good PR and you really can't spend the time to test each one 100%, let alone after you put a label on it.
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MotherCrud wrote:OTHER THAN THE CD LABEL, WHAT CAN BE USED ON A CD FOR NAME, TITLES.... ANY SUGGESTIONS? 8)
Thanks Everyone for the response. You have helped.
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