Storage
Like with hard drives, the evolution of CD writers is not something that is overly prodigious. We would like to take advantage of the BluRay and HD-DVD technologies of course, but these are still inaccessible due to their restrictive price. Simply, the only real innovations being seen are with the increased writing speed of t he media. Integrated into a number of laptop and desktop computers, and not well known to users, the LightScribe technology which has already been presented for a few years by Hewlett Packard, allows you to label optical media. In this article we will be taking a look at this technology.
At the beginning of 2000, Yamaha presented to the writing market the Disc T@2 technology (pronounced “tattoo”) which allows you to write text or pictures onto the surface of a writable disk.
This technology had the goal of replacing printable stickers and felt tip pens. Nevertheless, the Disc T@2 technology seemed to have a reoccurring fault, which was the limitation of the writing laser. It was only possible for it to write onto the underside of the disk, and then only onto the space that hadn’t been used by the burner to store data.
Launched during the first half of 2005, a new technology which succeeded the Disk T@2 called LabelFlash was seen, with the construction being undertaken by Yamaha, Nec and Fujifilm, with this presenting a lot of similarities to LightScribe. This technology allowed you to print in monochrome on the “printable” surface of recordable media. Yamaha pulled out of the writable media market, which essentially left the Nec models available for users that wanted to benefit from the LightFlash technology.
To the left, a model that supports the LabelFlash technology: the NEC AD-7173
To the right, you can see what the recordable media compatible with the LabelFlash looks like.
This technology had the goal of replacing printable stickers and felt tip pens. Nevertheless, the Disc T@2 technology seemed to have a reoccurring fault, which was the limitation of the writing laser. It was only possible for it to write onto the underside of the disk, and then only onto the space that hadn’t been used by the burner to store data.
Launched during the first half of 2005, a new technology which succeeded the Disk T@2 called LabelFlash was seen, with the construction being undertaken by Yamaha, Nec and Fujifilm, with this presenting a lot of similarities to LightScribe. This technology allowed you to print in monochrome on the “printable” surface of recordable media. Yamaha pulled out of the writable media market, which essentially left the Nec models available for users that wanted to benefit from the LightFlash technology.
To the left, a model that supports the LabelFlash technology: the NEC AD-7173
To the right, you can see what the recordable media compatible with the LabelFlash looks like.
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