Rick and Rex, thanks for your suggestions!  I had no idea these two 
options were available.   I happen to have a mac and a pc, but neither 
are attached to a photo quality printer.  If I go the printer route, I 
need one that will also scan and print, and haven't found a photo 
printer that will  print DVDs AND has a scanner/printer.  Does anyone 
know of such an animal?

Luann

Rex Baldazo wrote:

>I know this is not a good solution for you, but on PC's there's a new
>kind of burner called "Lightscribe":
>
>http://www.lightscribe.com/
>
>You know how the part of your DVD that's been recorded onto has a
>different color than the rest?  Lightscribe uses the same basic effect
>to "burn" a label into the label side of your discs.  Requires however
>both special software (currently PC-only) and special discs.  Now in
>theory you can take a Lightscribe disc and burn the media side in your
>Mac, then take it to a PC with a Lightscribe drive and burn the label
>side on that machine.  
>
>Tedious but you end up with a disc that has a label burned into the DVD.
>
>There's also printers capable of thermal printing directly onto a CD/DVD
>without requiring a separate paper label.  Casio has a few for example:
>
>http://www.casio.com/products/Label_%26_Disk_Title_Printers/Disk_Title_P
>rinters/
>
>--- Rex.
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of LuAnn
>Johnson
>Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:39 PM
>To: macgroup
>Subject: MacGroup: DVD/CD label question
>
>I read somewhere long ago that labels made on a home printer can get too
>hot in the DVD player and come loose and ruin the machine.  For that
>reason I have only made labels for shorter DVDs because I figures 15
>minutes or less wouldn't be long enough to get the label too hot.  
>However, I now have some DVDs running close to 40 minutes that I want to
>give to friends, and don't want to ruin the looks of it by writing the
>labels with a marker using my sometimes nearly illegible writing.
>
>Has anyone else heard that labels can ruin the machine?  Any other
>suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Luann
>
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