Print and Burn All With One Device

Multifunction printers are nothing new, but a printer with a built in dual layer, Lightscribe capable DVD burner makes for a rather odd yet useful marriage of components.

HP is a great company that has come out with many useful innovations over the years. They are most well known for their printers (and a dismally unsuccessful PC line) but now they have come out with a printer that has one more feature that you will be hard pressed to find anywhere else. They have combined a traditional multifunction printer with copy, fax, and printing capabilities with a high speed, dual layer DVD burner. All of which are controlled by buttons on the printer or through software on the connected PC. The burner is able to use Lightscribe technology to burn labels onto specially designed blank media discs. It also has ports for all of the common media card formats as well. No idea if you can burn directly from these cards to the burner or not. Although it may seem strange at first the idea of combining all of these devices into one is actually a very good thing. I'd love to get ahold of one to do a review on it, but sadly I bet these are going to be a very hot commodity over the next few months.