Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Fred Smith
I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use LightScribe to label the discs. well, I come to discover that LightScribe seems to have gone out of fashion, and I can't find suitable software anywhere. LaCie used to distrib

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 02/16/2014 08:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use LightScribe to label the discs. well, I come to discover that LightScribe seems to have gone out of fashion, and I can't find suitab

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:35:25 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: > Can anyone point me to a site that may still have it? (or other > suitable substitute). I found light scribe labels to be almost utterly invisible and really pitiful looking when I tried it once a long time ago (using the LaCie software which

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 02/16/2014 09:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:35:25 -0500 > Fred Smith wrote: > >> Can anyone point me to a site that may still have it? (or other >> suitable substitute). > > I found light scribe labels to be almost utterly invisible > and really pitiful looking when I trie

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Doug
On 02/16/2014 09:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use LightScribe to label the discs. well, I come to discover that LightScribe seems to have gone out of fashion, and I can't find suitab

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Temlakos
On 02/16/2014 10:10 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 02/16/2014 09:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:35:25 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: Can anyone point me to a site that may still have it? (or other suitable substitute). I found light scribe labels to be almost utterly invisible and rea

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Doug
On 02/16/2014 09:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:35:25 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: Can anyone point me to a site that may still have it? (or other suitable substitute). I found light scribe labels to be almost utterly invisible and really pitiful looking when I tried it once a lon

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/16/2014 06:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Infinitely better looking labels can be made with inkjet printable media and an inkjet printer that supports media printing (which my Epson Artisan does, though I have to run the software in a virtual windows machine). You might want to consider using

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-16 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:49:37 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > Infinitely better looking labels can be made with inkjet > printable media and an inkjet printer that supports > media printing (which my Epson Artisan does, though I have > to run the software in a virtual windows machine). My HP Photosmar

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-17 Thread Ian Malone
On 17 February 2014 03:23, Doug wrote: > On 02/16/2014 09:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> >> On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:35:25 -0500 >> Fred Smith wrote: >> >>> Can anyone point me to a site that may still have it? (or other >>> suitable substitute). >> >> I found light scribe labels to be almost utterly

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:46:07 + Frank Murphy wrote: > My HP Photosmart D5460, > can use Gimp on F17-F20 to print to the disk surface. > Check out the HP's for Fedora'ness Yea, I used to have an HP which could print native but when it died, I checked every model HP was selling, and they removed

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-17 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:12:36PM -0500, Doug wrote: > On 02/16/2014 09:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from > >other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use LightScribe to > >label the discs. > > > >well, I come to discover that L

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-17 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2014, Tom Horsley sent: > I checked every model HP was selling, and they removed CD/DVD printing > from all their new printers, so I abandoned HP. Just recently, I went looking for a printer that could print on discs, more out of curiosity than anything else, an

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-17 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 02/17/2014 04:46 PM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2014, Tom Horsley sent: >> I checked every model HP was selling, and they removed CD/DVD printing >> from all their new printers, so I abandoned HP. > > Just recently, I went looking for a printer that could print on discs, >

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-18 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:16:22AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:12:36PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > On 02/16/2014 09:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > >I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from > > >other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use Light

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-18 Thread Temlakos
On 02/17/2014 10:00 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2014, Tom Horsley sent: I checked every model HP was selling, and they removed CD/DVD printing from all their new printers, so I abandoned HP. Just recently, I went looking for a printer that could print on discs, more out of

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-18 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 18 February 2014, Temlakos sent: > Where are you writing from? From the spelling you used (the extra "u" > in the "or" words, "s" for "z," et cetera), I gather you write from > the UK. No, from down under in oz trail ya... ;-) -- All mail to my mailbox is automatically

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-18 Thread Temlakos
On 02/18/2014 09:59 AM, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 18 February 2014, Temlakos sent: Where are you writing from? From the spelling you used (the extra "u" in the "or" words, "s" for "z," et cetera), I gather you write from the UK. No, from down under in oz trail ya... ;-) Oh! G'day, mat

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-18 Thread Frank Murphy
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:04:38 -0500 Temlakos wrote: > Return to Eden (six-hour mini-series). With Rebecca Gilling and James > Reyne; Hanna Barbera Australia, 1985 (or so) it's available at amazon.co.uk: So possibly on Amazon where you live? http://tinyurl.com/nbvk23z # LoveFilm is UK address on

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-18 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:12:36PM -0500, Doug wrote: > On 02/16/2014 09:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from > >other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use LightScribe to > >label the discs. > > > >well, I come to discover that L

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-18 Thread Doug
On 02/18/2014 08:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:12:36PM -0500, Doug wrote: On 02/16/2014 09:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use LightScribe to label the discs. we

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:54:08PM -0500, Doug wrote: > I don't think you need any docs, if the files are installed. You > should have a program > called SimpleLabeler. On my machine it installed on opt. Here's the > whole path: > > /opt/lightscribeApplications/SimpleLabeler/SimpleLabeler * >

Re: Using LightScribe on Linux???

2014-02-23 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:16:22AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:12:36PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > On 02/16/2014 09:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > >I've got a project in which I'll be making many dozens of DVDs from > > >other media, and I thought it'd be really cool to use Light