Method of printing visually readable information on a compact disk

Abstract

A method of printing human readable information on a CD having a substrate, a record layer over the substrate, and a reflective layer over the record layer includes the steps of providing a colorant donor element in transferable relationship with a surface of the CD over the reflective layer; raster scanning a light beam across the colorant donor element to cause the transfer of human readable colorant pixels onto such surface; and continuously raster scanning the light beam without any non-printing or free fly time during the transfer of such human readable colorant pixels.

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