LaCie Loves Light Scribe

If there was doubt that LaCie had total love for HP's Light Scribe optical disk labelling technology, they dispelled it today. Today, they announced LightScribe support for "all" operating systems. In LaCie's world, there are apparently exactly three operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Linux zealots will be gladdened to see a major vendor not leaving them out (for once) of their software plans. Well, at least the ones running a reasonably current Linux from a major distribution. LaCie's "LightScribe Labeler for Linux" was "validated" on Mandriva, Fedora Core, SUSE, and Ubuntu, though the company claims it shoud run "on any x86-based Linux distribution using Linux kernel 2.6 and RPM". The Linux software apparently works with K3b (www.k3b.org.

LaCie's Light Scribe labelling software of the Mac is now updated to include multi-drive burning. I find it hard to believe that many folks are actually using the tediously slow Light Scribe label-burning process to crank out more than a handful of disks at a time, but LaCie obviously thinks otherwise, as the press release encourages you to "daisy-chain up to 999" burners together for simultaneous burning. If anybody out there has a 999-burner LightScribe system functioning, please-oh-please send me a picture of it!

The slow but relentless acceptance of LightScribe technology continues with this announcement. Despite the overpromise/underdeliver history of LightScribe, there's no denying that it's becoming a defacto standard. Hopefully the burn speeds will get faster and the image quality will improve.

See Also

• Our own Light Scribe complete info page.
• The original LaCie Light Scribe press release discussed here.

October 18, 2006October