Hi brianmay27,
I guess you have to buy a special equipment for it. But, there is an alternative.
I have a CD-rom with lightscribe, and the purpose of lightscribe is, is that you can put something on your CD. Let me give you an example. You don't want to right your name on the CD because eventually it will come off. So what do you do, you go to your local hardware store, you ask for some Lightscribe CD's and you turnover the cd and put it like that in to your CD-rom. Then, open Nero(or something else) and choose for option lightscribe(or something). There you can add an image, name, what ever you want. Lets take your name as an example.
So, you choose to wright "brianmay27", and you click ok. It will take a while, but eventually, your cd will come out with brianmay27 on it. And it won't come off anymore.
Zangetsu