Patent ID: 8850981

Claim:
A method of printing information on a dual-sided optical disc, wherein a first area of the optical disc includes data for playback and is reflective or opaque to visible light, wherein at least one second area of the optical disc is transparent to visible light, and wherein the second area includes first and second rings that are concentric, the method comprising: printing a reversed inverse of a first text pattern in the first ring during a first printing on a first side of the optical disc, wherein the first text pattern is yisible in reverse as viewed from the first side of the optical disc but correctly visible as viewed from a second side of the optical disc, and wherein characters of the first text pattern are transparent, being printed in outline; printing a second text pattern in the second ring during a second printing on the first side of the optical disc, wherein the second text pattern is correctly visible as viewed from the first side of the optical disc; and printing, during the second printing on the first side of the optical disc, a first solid pattern to overlay at least a portion of the first text pattern, wherein characters in the correctly visible first text pattern have a same color as the first solid pattern; wherein the printing steps are carried out using a printing apparatus.