The answer is mostly no.
LightScribe-enabled software comes with a variety of backgrounds to help you create great-looking labels, or you can import digital photos or your own images from Photoshop. There are three types of backgrounds to choose from—Title, Content, and Full—and each refers to how much radial space is covered on the label. Sep 02, 2015 Recently got rid of an old Dell that had two Lightscribe drives in it. Very nice to make Lightscribe discs but I have a new Mac Pro and wanted to shift all to it. I found that you can download the Lightscribe software easily but it only runs the simple version meaning no custom labels using one's one pictures and such.
LightScribe as Dialabrain indicated has been officially discontinued by the inventor i.e. HP. As a result HP are not producing new updated drivers to utilise this feature, obviously the hardware can still do it so if you have an older version of OS X and the old version of suitable applications then your LightScribe drive will still work.
I believe the main reason the old driver no longer works dates back to the introduction of El Capitan i.e. OS X 10.11 this included a new security feature called SIP designed to help protect against malicious software. A side effect was that many drivers needed to be updated to work with SIP. Since HP had discontinued their LightScribe support they never produced such an updated driver.
Now this does open a small possibility of being able to install and use the old strictly speaking incompatible driver. You can do this if you chose to deliberately disable the SIP protection.
I would suggest only trying this on a separate test installation of Sierra and not your normal system.
See https://smilesoftware.com/disclabel/lightscribe this might give you the last versions of LightScribe software.
See https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-disable-system-integrity-protection-on-mac/ for instructions on how to disable SIP
If you need an application to do the actual printing then see the following
https://lightscribesoftware.org/mac-lightscribe-software/ this is not free but is also not expensive and seems be the most up to date application available but still subject to the SIP problem. The link on that page to here https://lightscribesoftware.org/how-to-install-system-software-on-el-capitan/ confirms I was correct about this being a SIP problem. It also suggests my solution will work.
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