If you already have a LightScribe-enabled disc burner, rejoice. The LightScribe free apps give you pretty basic disc labels, but Roxio Toast and apps like Disc Cover 3 (now on sale for US$14.99 through the Mac app store) can output some very detailed and attractive discs. The LightScribe free applications are running again, and so are some of the third-party apps I've tested. It was a great system, but when Apple updated to a new version of Mac OS X the LightScribe software tended to fail, and you were back to using an ink marker or a stick-on label.įinally, the LightScribe system software has a Mountain Lion-friendly update. It could be plain text, or even etched photographs on the label. If you had a LightScribe-compatible disc burner, you could use a LightScribe-branded CD or DVD and create a label using the laser in the CD burner.
LightScribe software has been around since 2004 when HP brought it to market.
Blu-ray has been a relatively slow starter in the computer world and we will never see that technology in an Apple product. Apple hates them, but lots of people still use them.
