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Lightscribe is a technology that allows an image or text on the top of a cddvd is burned can be. The replacement drive also failed with the same problems. Hp desktop pcs creating disc labels with lightscribe. One alternative is to update the dvd devices firmware. A lightscribeenabled dvd drive uses an optical laser to burn an image into the. Hewlettpackard is about to introduce a convenient way to label your recordable discs.
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