Lightscribe Direct Disk Labeling Software

[reiki]

Lightscribe burns are indexed from the media, not the drive. If you look at the innermost ring of the media... right next to the center hole... you'll see marks. The Lightscribe media is indexed on those marks. This is what makes it possible for you to burn a lightscribe image TWICE (or more) even if you remove the media and put it back in.

Question: Does 4L burn quicker if the image is constrained within a certain radius, and if so, should the outer portion of the design be white to achieve this?

Lightscribe burns in concentric circles. If you look at Simple Labeler you can choose upper text and lower text and you can choose a simple design as well if you want. If you then look at the preview, all of those elements are constrained within a "ring" on the media. In other words.... from the center of the media and moving out toward the edge....there is nothing to burn until you get about half way out and then it burns the contents of that "ring" and then there's nothing to burn all the way out to the edge.

that type of label is very fast. My drive does them in about 2 and a half minutes.

Now take a look at 4L. You're bringing in an image. It *can* be an image that covers the entire surface of the media. Essentially that means the drive has to burn something in EVERY concentric ring from the center to the edge. Those burns on my drive can take 30 to 35 minutes and maybe more depending on what the image is.

Should the outer portion be white? I don't think so but I've never tried this. I usually have areas I don't want burned as transparent in the image.

[toobaz]

Originally Posted by j_dog This doesn't work for 64 bit. it tells me wrong achitecture .

I hope you already solved, I'll write it here anyway: to install 32 bits packages in a 64 bit Ubuntu, do not use the graphic interface; just move to the directory where you dowloaded the package and give the command:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture nameofthepackagefile.deb

[reiki]

OK! Using Inkscape I've made a template with instructions so that you can pull in a graphic, put text on a circular path, etc. All that neat stuff. It's a SIMPLE template. you can probably BREAK it so make a second copy to keep as a fresh one. It just uses layers and has some guides on it for placement and instructions for putting text on a path and ... well you'll see.

I won't know if this is helpful unless people actually TRY it so feel free.. and let me know how this works out for you.

Not sure which attachment will work but here goes... they're the same thing but one is compressed for transport...

[djfolsom]

I hope this will help it is a site with drivers for light scrib for linux, ran across it in a review about
linux against vista..http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803

[csamuel]

Originally Posted by go_dragons Has anyone tried to do this with AMD64?

Yes - I'm running 4L-gui happily on KUbuntu Gutsy - I blogged about how I did it here:

http://www.csamuel.org/2007/11/29/in...debian-systems

But the executive summary was that I used alien to convert both the .deb and .rpm into a tar file and then used alien to convert them back to .deb files.

[esmerine]

damn. i've just bought the 20A3H drive, installed debs from lightscribe.com, but saw that simple labeler cannot print full cds. installed lacie but getting error

4L-cli: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

when trying to open 4L-cli. or enumerate (when i want to enumerate, i just type 4L-cli enumerate?)
these things i was trying to do unluckily because lacie tells me that my drive is not detected. :[

Edit: there's the code of God:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

Terminal just tells you what to do, but if you're not experienced you might get lost or just type the wrong name.
/me happily printing dragons.

[WestCoastSuccess]

Check your permissions for libstdc++.so.5 (which should be in /usr/lib32) - mine are set to read/write/execute for all (tho you probably don't need write permission).

You can check like this:

#ls -l /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.5

Mine shows:

#-rwx rwx rwx

To change the permissions, type:

#sudo chmod a+rwx /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.5

Let me know if that solves your issue.

Cheers!

[loyeyoung]

@ esmerine

Edit: there's the code of God: Code: sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

Suggestion: apt-get is deprecated upstream. Use aptitude instead of apt-get, which will by default install "Recommended" dependencies. Recommended dependencies are packages that are not strictly required for the subject package to be useful, but that enable functionality that would normally be expected (I'm paraphrasing the definition because I'm too lazy to look it up).

As an added bonus, aptitude is much more sophisticated in its handling of dependencies when you want to remove packages. Your case is an example. When the day comes that you want to remove the package upon which it depends, aptitude would suggest that you remove this dependency because it's no longer needed.

Happy Trails,

Loye Young
Isaac & Young Computer Company
Laredo, Texas
http://www.iycc.net

[esmerine]

Originally Posted by loyeyoung @ esmerine Suggestion: apt-get is deprecated upstream. Use aptitude instead of apt-get, which will by default install "Recommended" dependencies. Recommended dependencies are packages that are not strictly required for the subject package to be useful, but that enable functionality that would normally be expected (I'm paraphrasing the definition because I'm too lazy to look it up). As an added bonus, aptitude is much more sophisticated in its handling of dependencies when you want to remove packages. Your case is an example. When the day comes that you want to remove the package upon which it depends, aptitude would suggest that you remove this dependency because it's no longer needed. Happy Trails, Loye Young Isaac & Young Computer Company Laredo, Texas http://www.iycc.net

Great, I'll have it in mind.

[shak541]

thank you very much esmerine
you have just made my day.
today i wanted to print a label on a cd... (full picture) but i was getting that error and your fix worked and saved me. thank you