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byron02

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12. April 2006 @ 17:28

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I'm an avid lightscriber(10-12 disc/week), and I just switched from a HP640c, to a BenQ DW 1655. I was kinda hoping for a clearer picture, and maybe faster lightscribe times.
Well I was right about the picture. The first disc I burned, the contrast was ALOT better than the HP's.
I was wrong about the time. It takes "exactly" as long as it did on my HP. I was wondering why this is. If it can write a full disc in 6 mins at 8X, then what's the problem? I know how the whole things works, but comeon! At first I was so ready for color lightscribe, but now I'm not so sure. It could take hours to do one disc!
Does anyone know why the technology isn't around to speed up lightscribe?

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haza12d

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12. April 2006 @ 19:01

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Well writing on the Lightscribe media is different than burning a CD or DVD. Right now all the Lightscribe drives are locked in at that speed. I've had an HP740i and currently own a BenQ DW 1655 and yes they both run at the same speed when writing on the Lightscribe medium. But all my blabber didn't really answer any of your questions did it? =) I'm with you on this one though...I'd like to see Lightscribe drives do an image burn in the same amount of time it burns a DVD at 16x.

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steimy

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13. April 2006 @ 11:49

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http://www.lightscribe.com/support/index.aspx?id=306
for an even better picture you may want to get this if
you do not already have it, although this will increase the time it takes to burn it.

But my theory would be this. When burning the game or movies it is just burning information, which it can do at a fairly high speed in some cases. But burning an image onto the face of a DVD has just got to be a longer process to produce any good results.
Like the difference between setting your printer to draft which is ultra fast but low quality, then setting it to photo which means you could go out to dinner and make it back before the darn thing finishes, but the outcome will be a better sharper image.

Quality with graphics just takes time. It would be nice to see them cut that time in half and still get good quality though.

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13. April 2006 @ 13:52

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At least you can safely multi-task while you're burning labels ...

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haza12d

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13. April 2006 @ 14:34

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Got the Extended Label Contrast Utility and its weird that my HP740i burned the same quality image without it as the BenQ DW1655 with it...

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byron02

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13. April 2006 @ 19:09

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my HP740i burned the same quality image without it as the BenQ DW1655 with it...

That's weird, because my BenQ burns alot clearer than my HP did. Plus my HP started to burn circles in the media. Made it look like a record almost.. hard to describe. Just downloaded that Extended Label Contrast Utility. It's funny because it sounded good, even though my major complaint is TIME!! LOL.

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