Thats a good buy if U want an external unit..Just the burner is about40bucks..U can always take the burner out & instal to computer & use the external for a HDD
yeah that true rick5446 and 2 think its a good buy but who knows somebody on here maybe able to find my something cheaper. if not then i will take that one.
Does it have to be external? Newegg.com didn't have the benq 1655 external. Some peeps put an internal drive in an external enclosure and hook them up via usb.
@redice You can try the external BenQ, make sure the enclosure that it is in has a Prolific chipset. This is supposedly the only chipset that will allow the lightscribe feature to work. One of our members IHoe bought the BenQ in a Galaxy enclosure, which does have the Prolific, but Nero not Sure Thing Label would recognize the lightscribe, but the burner worked fantastic.
@saugmon well the only reason i was going externalwith the 1655 is because i already have a benq 1650 and a dvd-rom drive in the computer already. can i have 3 drives in the computer? @arniebear thanks for the infro mation about the chipset with the enclosure.so should i email them and try to find out about the chipset or should it say somewhere? An you would think that the enclosure would work prefect with the benq 1655 because they are selling them both together but from what you are saying i guesss not.
Just email them and make sure the chipset in the enclosure is Prolific, as it is my understanding that is what works with the lightscribe BenQ. Yeah, they drive and the enclosure are together. This is a different enclosure then IHoe got, he got the Galaxy enclosure. http://www.meritline.com/combo-benq-dw1655-and-galaxy-5-25-enclosure.html Edit: Here is thread from CDFreaks on external BenQ http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=181250
@arniebear ok thanks and i email them to ask them about the chipset. can you tell me if lightscribe is in color?
really? i did not know that rick5446. @saugmon were all the dvd's in your user profile done with lightscribe or were some done with a printer?
I've got 1 of each in that pic,from how I label all my dvds: 1 Full hub white inkjet printable 1 Reg hub shiny inkjet printable 1 L/S,before an enhancement I added-I added an enhancement to help the clarity-thanx to arniebear for that utility.That pic is without the enhancement-poorer image quality. 1 regular sharpie marked dvd My ls backups are black and all the variations of color brown-bronze/gold/tan/etc. I use labels downloaded from this site: http://covers.box.sk/. Depending how those disc labels look,determines how I print my covers. For white/full hubs-definitely the darker covers. Ligher ones,shiny-but I got to watch out because these are reg hubs For bronze/gold/-I'll use the lightscribes. Of all my printable media,the shiny inkjet printables are by far the best looking covers.I'd like to find the full hub shiny. Then the white full hubs,and then LS.
I haven't found the white/glossy full hub printables yet. The covers should look very good. TDK has some photo quality discs. Not sure if reg hub or full hub.I also don't like the majority of TDK's manufacturers.
The LS backkup is the greatest game ever played,in the lower right corner. That was when I was scribing them twice-30 mins per pass. Not a very good cover,but the enhancement utility I download cleared it up better. I've got no pics of any after enhancing them. I can't remember the last LS disc I scribed. I'm mostly using shiny inkjet printables.I'd like to get a hold of some good white/glossy full hub inkjet printables.
@arniebear i fnally got a email back from Meritline about the benq 1655 and the enclosure. they said that the chipset for the enclosure is ALi. http://meritline.com/usb2-external-benq-dw1655-16x-burner.html
saugmon..Tell us a little more on the enhancement utility ! How much did it improve,how much longer did it take,where'd U get it
I believe arniebear linked me to the Lightscribe ELCU utility? Extended Label Contrast Utility- by HP: Takes a couple mins longer,but well worth it for the better contrast on those LS backups. I don't have the link,but probably try googling Lightscribe ELCU, and it's free. Download it You have to have your lightscribing software already downloaded. Open up ELCU,set it up-and it should stay that way as default. It's pretty simple.
