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Designing and burning with SureThing Labeler:

While we were browsing the LightScribe site we came across a free version of SureThing CD/DVD Labeler SE LightScribe Edition, which we downloaded and installed.

The SureThing program tends to be more professional and easier to work with. We created a layout here to test out the LightScribe feature. After we were satisfied with the layout we pressed Print Label (LightScribe).

In the print option dialog we also find a Diagnostic button and we clicked it of course.

We closed the LightSribe Diagnostics windows and selected 'Best quality" and OK to print the label in the Print Dialog windows.

The program gave us a notice 'Please ensure that you have a LightScribe disc inserted in the drive with the label side down". (As you can see you can choose - Don't show me this message in the future." We went on with OK to print the label.

Compared with the Nero printing dialog, the SureThing program showed us an estimated remaining time of 28 minutes and 21 seconds, which tend to be more realistic.

Writing process finished, let us take a look at the result.

Very nice indeed, even if we zoom in on the disc, the quality and contrast is very good. We decided to re-print this label again on the same disc in Best quality.

Excellent! Also this time the indexing capability of the hardware and software worked out perfectly. The label is now a lot darker and the graphic details are still excellent.

We hope that you have gotten some more insight in the LightScribe feature/technique now, after reading this section. And according to the LightScribe site, it looks like there will be an interesting update coming soon.

• Will I need to purchase a new LightScribe DVD drive when the new media with the speed enhancement is available in the market?

LightScribe has just announced a 50% speed enhancement to be available in the next quarter. The enhancement comes from changes made to the discs themselves, and these new media will be compatible with the existing drive. So if you were to buy a drive now, you would be able to take advantage of the faster discs when they are available.

Sounds like an interesting update indeed, but at the time being we have to wait for it though.

Before we round off this review, let us run the drive through some advanced tests at next page…