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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: brsox on December 03, 2003, 08:25:31 PM
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I made the mistake of putting one of those cd "donut sticker" labels on one of my discs and now it skips...and I heard it isn't too good to write on the discs either. Just wondering, how do you guys label your discs? As of now, I just slide in a slip of paper into the sleeve that the disc is in, but I'd rather label it with an Ultra Fine Point Sharpie. Will I ruin the disc if I write on it or should I write on that clear plastic circle in the center of the disc? Stupid question? oh well.
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I use a fine point sharpie to write on the inside plastic ring...
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I've been using a fine tip sharpie on the disc itself. I haven't run into any problems with that.
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there's been a lot of discussion on this, here and elsewhere. some think the sharpie will eventually bleed thru into the data, but i doubt it. for trading, i write on the inner ring with a superfine point, and print out the txt file. also, some people like to label their own way. for me, i use regular sharpie on the disc face.
jr
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I have personal experience with a sharpie wrecking discs. Granted, it took about 2 years, but they were TY discs. They were well-cared for in a binder and when I got my new hard drive this fall, I tried to copy some of them over. I had more than a few that could not be read. Because of this, I now do the fine point on the inner ring EXCLUSIVELY.
I suppose you could spring for discs with a writeable surface too.
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Matt, were those the non-inkjet-writeable TYs?
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silver surface ... I'm gonna guess no on that one :)
Sure learned the hard way on that one. Thankfully someone I uploaded to held on to it. It was a 24/96 master!
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Ouch. I've had TY silver surfaces flake on me... sucked ass
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So now I splurge on the white inkjet surfaces! WOO
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i write on the disk itself. I don't trade cdr's but if I did I'd write on the inside ring.
for myself though I have shn/flac backups of everything and if the ink leaks through I can get a replacement. it's just easier and a lot more convenient for me to write on the disk itself... none of this stuff is so rare I can't replace it if the disk gets messed up and cd's cost a dime so what's the big loss?
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i bought a bunch of silver faced hhb's get scraped to death on me. only buy whites now, and do write on them. matt, what disc type did the sharpie's ruin?
jr
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all i burn is audio cds. I know it will kick me in my ass one day, but oh well. I write the band/date/disc# on the disc with a memorex cd-r pen. Moke got me all freaked about sharpies awhile back. Got the cd-r pen for like $2 at walmart and there were 4 in a pack. I keep all my text files saved to the computer and if i wanna know anything about the show, i just check my etree list.
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Has anyone heard anything about those new Epson printers that print directly onto the CD's?
When I first saw them in an ad, I thought that could be cool.
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John, they were TYs. No label, silver surface. I forget where I got them b/c it was 2 years ago. Fine tip sharpie on the inner ring is the only way I'll write on a disc anymore, unless the surface is explicitly writable.
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The "donut" thing seems odd to me. Wouldn't that add a further layer of protection? What caused problems?...the adhesive used to bond the lable to the disk?
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The things make the disc unstable if you don't put it on perfectly, and they bubble or crease sometimes too with the heat if you leave it in your machine too long. Better to buy the printable discs to begin with...
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Crayola, dooodbrau...
T