Patent ID: 7154523

Claim:
A label printer system for a disk storage medium including a hub, a thermally-sensitive layer formed on at least a portion of a surface of said disk storage medium, and an alignment pattern near the hub, the label printer system comprising; a rotational drive for rotating said disk storage medium; a transverse drive including a laser head for moving a laser substantially transversely with respect to said disk storage medium; a memory including a rotation position variable and a transverse position variable that, respectively, track and control a rotational and transverse position of said disk storage medium, a symbol set, and a label printer driver; and a processor communicating with said memory, said rotational drive, said transverse drive, and said laser, and wherein said processor is configured to convert said symbol set into a set of rotational and transverse movements and laser activations thereby creating patterns dictated by said symbol set and to use said label printer driver to control said rotational drive and said transverse drive in order to thermally write said patterns dictated by said symbol set to said thermally-sensitive layer of said disk storage medium using said laser and said alignment pattern.