On Friday 07 April 2006 21:47, Marc M wrote: >Hi, > >I bought an HP dvd740 dvd burner a while back and it has their > proprietary disc labeling technology that allows you to burn a disc, > then flip it over and it will etch an image or text of the label, > into the disc itself. The software also will, I believe, allow you > to put a gif or some such image on there if you want that instead. > >I have the cd that came with it. Is there a plugin that will have me >install that cd ok? Does wine work allright for something like this? > I would really like to exclude the proprietary sw and just work > directly with the hardware and os, if at all possible. > >Another strategy might be to try to reverse engineer the way it burns. >Obviously the hardware has the burning capability and I have the media > that supports it as well. Would anyone know if this has been done > already? I would think with the right command line options you could > 'force' the burner to burn text for example. > >Any help is appreciated - >Marc ISTR there was a linux version of that went by on freshmeat a few weeks back. I've been looking at the LightScribe myself, but the low price scares me. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
