LightScribe, the HP business unit that develops technology used to burn designs onto the top of CD and DVD media, is offering specially themed image kits for custom label design.

And its mission is actually very simple: It allows you to burn CDs at speeds of up to 40x, DVDs at up to 16x, then print labels directly onto those discs. No more fiddling with sticky printer labels.

Lab Director James Galbraith wonders whether anyone actually uses LightScribe for creating disk labels.

How the above tech compares to Lightscribe and Labelflash Tom’s Hardware looked closely at technologies such as Lightscribe and LabelFlash in 2006; you can dive into an 11-page feature via that ...