"Labelflash vs LightScribe DVD/CD Labeling". Cd’s has probably lost its sting among users because recently released laptops and computers no longer carry cd-rom drives.
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Reviewers, such as Gordon Laing for Personal Computer World, also noted that when compared to LightScribe, Labelflash images looked more "unnatural" and less "vibrant".
Commenting on the price, Engadget's Marc Perton said he'd "stick with Sharpie for now." Furthermore, worldwide, proprietary Labelflash optical media costed double that of comparable LightScribe media, at US$2.40 per disc, which Tom's Hardware called an "exorbitant" price that made printing "painful" as test prints were not worth doing. After its release, Labelflash was not available in the United States until 2007, giving HP a three year head start in the US market. The technology is often compared with Hewlett-Packard's LightScribe, released one year earlier. Labelflash is backwards compatible with Yamaha's earlier technology-this allows Labelflash-compatible optical drives to engrave onto the data side of discs as well.Īccording to Yamaha, a new iteration of Labelflash which supported four color printing was in the works -however, as Labelflash support was discontinued in 2017, this never came to fruition. The labeling process takes 7 minutes at the lowest resolution and a half hour at the highest. Up to 256 monochromatic shades can be used in the image. The resolution is adjustable between 3 dpi (dots per inch). Creating a label uses the LightScribe-enabled DVD drive of your computer with enhanced disc-labeling software, and specially coated CD or DVD discs (sold. The dye is 0.6mm below the surface so as to protect it from the elements. In Labelflash, the standard recording head of an optical drive is repurposed to burn images onto a layer of dye made for this purpose on the top of proprietary Labelflash optical media.