[ale] LightScribe for Linux

[arxaaron]

On 2011/06/27, at 14:24 , Lightner, Jeff wrote:

> Not sure what LightScribe is...
[snip]

Light scribe drives (using Light Scribe media) let you
burn the disk labeling info into the top side of the disk
(strictly gray scale) as well as burn the data into the
bottom side.

I've always gone with color ink jet printing for my disk
labeling using Epson printer models that support this
as they provide good quality.  The Light Scribe labeling
I've seen was pretty marginal in comparison.  Kind of a
gimmick in my view, but still nice that there are printer
drivers under Linux that support it.

With any printing, resolution of the image file you
start with is key to the quality.  With the exception
of plotters, I imagine that any printer (or printer driver)
will be effectively working from a big bitmap for output,
whether that is rendered from structured format like
Post Script or a scaled bitmap image.

peace
aaron


>
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 13:46 -0400, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
>> Anyone familiar with LightScribe for Linux, such as "4L-gui"?
>> I have a hard time getting reasonably sharp lettering using the
>> "Gimp".
>> Problem is that "4L-gui" will only accept things like "gif", "jpeg",
>> etc,
>> but no regular text or "postcript".
>>
>> I know there are LightScribe forums, but they use Windows and Nero,
>> which I would like to avoid if possible.
>>
>> What image editor besides Gimp would work?
>
> You could try InkScape.
>
> However, I expect that you're actually running into one of two  
> problems:
>
>  1.  You are exporting the image from the GIMP in a low resolution,
>      such as 72 dpi (a standard resolution for Web graphics, but not
>      for print purposes).
>
>  2.  Your drive is not capable of extremely high resolution on
>      LightScribe imaging.
>
> Try to create the image as a 300 dpi (or even 600 dpi) graphic, and  
> try
> using that graphic as the source for the process.  Also make sure that
> you use the highest quality setting, which will take about 20 to 30
> minutes to create the lightscribe label.
>
> 	--- Mike