Lightscribe now available to Linux users

This week, LightScribe announced a new toolkit for Linux that allows users to install and use LightScribe-enabled disc burners to create laser-printed, direct-to-disc designs and labels. The new release is publically available and is free as a SDK. The technology was previously only available to Windows users because of the availability of a proper driver and client-side software.

I found this pretty useless on Windows, and so I probably won’t change my tone here. I may give it a go in the weeks to come, just to see how simple the process is. Many new DVD-RW’s support Lightscribe, so if you are interested in giving it a try, read up to see if you have the goods. We can expect this functionality to be added to k3b in the future so that you won’t have to run a completely separate program.