
Of course you can't do this with just any drive, media or software. According to HP, it's as simple as burning the data, flipping the disc, and then burning the label. Developed by HP, LightScribe lets you burn durable, silk screen quality labels directly onto your CD's and DVD's using the same drive that burned the data. The SH-S223Q is one of the latest drives from Samsung to feature LightScribe technology. The specs below have been taken from Samsung's website and by running a few simple tests. By looking at the picture below you can see the drive's SATA interface and power connector.

The rear of the SH-S223Q is fairly straight forward. Off by default, this LED lights up green when the drive is reading or writing. Along with the large "Super WriteMaster" logo, you can see a few showing support for the DVD Multi specification as well as HP's LightScribe technology.īelow the tray you can see the SH-S223Q's single LED.

It not only shares the same basic bezel design, but has many of the same logos.

The drive Samsung sent us for this review was manufactured in August of 2008 and came preloaded with firmware SB00. For this review we used firmware version SB03.įrom the front, the SH-S223Q looks very similar to Samsung's previous DVD writers. The drive came with copy of the software CD as well as a printed quick installation guide. The SH-S223Q we received from Samsung was the bulk, or OEM, version.
