The tatooing thing is pretty easy once you go through it a time or two. The software was included with my SCSI-F1 software bonus package. The results depend on the type of CDR you use, as well as whether you decide to have the background "dark" versus "light"... this is especially important if you're doing text only. All in all though, it's very faint... while viewing the "burned" side, tilt the disk so that light reflects off of the image and look very closely... you'll see it if you look hard enough.