Microboards LightScribe media is an all-in-one recording and labeling solution for owners of LightScribe-enabled burners. After recording content on a Microboards LightScribe media, simply flip the disc over and put it back in the drive to burn a custom disc design directly on the disc's label-side surface. Read More

LightScribe DVD and CD-R use a special recordable Light Scribe printable disc, special recording drive and special software designed for LightScribe label printing. In a method very similar to recording a disc, the laser etches the label side. A special disc label laser's light causes a dye to react on the printing side of the LightScribe DVD causing a permanent change in the opacity of the dye. This creates a monochromatic black print against the color of the disc. Read More

One of the great challenges to burning your own DVDs is how you label them. Certainly the old standby, a sharpie pen can be used but that solution leaves much to be desired. Sharpie pens use solvent based ink. This ink can attack some protective coatings on CDs however DVDs are constructed differently then CDs so the solvent would need to breakdown the polycarbonate layer (recordable DVDs are a sandwich of two polycarbonate discs glued together with the reflective and dye layer as the "meat". So as far as DVDs go Sharpies are not going to damage the dye layer but may damage a printable layer specific to inkjet printing which is outside the sandwich and applied to the top of the DVD recordable. That is more a cosmetic issue then something to be concerned with. Read More