Patent ID: 7443411

Claim:
A method for writing a label to an optical disc in an optical disc drive, comprising the steps of: writing a label on the optical disc, the label being embodied in a plurality of tracks that are written onto a surface of the optical disc; and imposing a delay between the writing of consecutive ones of the tracks in the optical disc drive, a length of the delay being determined in part by a length of time it takes to transition from a completion of a first one of the tracks to a starting position to write a next consecutive one of the tracks; performing a plurality of track transition tasks to transition from the completion of the first one of the tracks to the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks; imposing a predefined delay after the track transition tasks are completed and before reaching the starting position to write the next consecutive one of the tracks; and determining a starting pixel at which to start the writing of the next consecutive one of the tracks during the predefined delay.