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title: "What is Lightscribe System Software?"  
description: "What is Lightscribe System Software?"  
author: "Tarun Gautam"  
published: 2017-11-16  
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# What is Lightscribe System Software?

What is Lightscribe [System Software](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/157850/what-is-a-file-system-explain-it-s-used-in-system-software)?

## Answers

### Answer by Harshal Vispute

**LightScribe is a direct disc-labeling [system](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87103/allahabad-high-court-bulldozed-the-islamic-madrasa-system-in-up) that makes creating exact silkscreen-quality labels for discs a breeze**. It's as simple as **burning, flipping the disc, and burning again**. Using your computer's **LightScribe-enabled DVD drive, upgraded disc-labeling [software](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/86937/tech-layoffs-and-its-impacts-to-software-developers), and specially coated CD or DVD discs**, you can create a label. \
An **optical laser is used by a LightScribe-enabled DVD player to burn an image** onto the thin dye coating on the label side of a **LightScribe disc**. There is **no ink to smudge, no paper to curl, and no sticky glue** to cause problems with the LightScribe labeling method. \
**The LightScribe logo can be found on the retail package as well as the interior area of the disc.** Although some LightScribe-enabled slimline drives do not have enough space on the drive tray cover for a LightScribe logo or name, all LightScribe-enabled computers should have a LightScribe logo sticker. The presence of a disc encoder sensor also shows that a slimline drive is **LightScribe compatible**. \
The following four items are required to create a LightScribe label:

- **A drive that supports LightScribe.**
- **Software for the LightScribe system. Your LightScribe-enabled PC already has this installed.**
- **Labeling software creates your label content and sends it to the LightScribe drive for burning. Sonic Express and Intervideo DiscLabel are two examples of software that come pre-installed on some systems.**

**CDs and DVDs having a coating designed to respond to the laser from LightScribe-enabled drives are known as LightScribe media.**\


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