To create a label, you need to:

  1. Get ready. Make sure you have everything you need. Insert disc correctly. Start software.
  2. Design your label. Specify text, font, border, drive, and copies to make your own design.
  3. Preview. Preview label and modify as desired.
  4. Burn. Burn your label.

If you experience difficulties, check the Troubleshooting section or www.lightscribe.com/go/support.


Get ready

Insert the disc and start the software

  1. Insert your CD or DVD using these essential guidelines:
  2. Launch LightScribe Simple Labeler.

Make sure you have everything you need

To use LightScribe Simple Labeler, you must have all of the following.

More information about all of these items is available at www.lightscribe.com.

  1. Hardware. You need either a LightScribe-enabled DVD drive in your computer or a LightScribe-enabled DVD writer connected to your computer.
  2. Special CDs or DVDs. LightScribe works when the hardware interacts with the special coating that can only be found on LightScribe discs.
  3. Labeling software. If you are reading this, you have LightScribe-supported disc-labeling software -- LightScribe Simple Labeler.
  4. LSS software. LightScribe System Software (LSS) is the foundation underneath LightScribe Simple Labeler. Again, if you are reading this, you have LSS.

But what is LightScribe?

LightScribe is a disc-labeling technology that lets you laser-etch a label directly on your disc. Creating professional-looking discs is easy: burn your disc, flip the disc over, and then burn your label onto the disc. The same drive that burns your data, burns your label.

A LightScribe-enabled DVD drive uses a laser to burn an image into the coating on the label side of a LightScribe disc. The LightScribe labeling system has no ink to smear, no paper to curl, and no sticky adhesive to cause problems.

Refer to www.lightscribe.com for more information on LightScribe.

Now you are ready to design your label.