Peter,

Are you burning the CD with the label attached? What type of label are you
using, permanent or removable? The burning may cause additional adhesion of
the label, "burning" it into the cd top layer, so to speak. Placing a
removable label onto the CD after burning may lessen this type of problem.

I remember Fred Langa's (Langalist) indicating that adhesive labels can
speed the deterioration of the disk and recommended a felt tip marker. I
routinely use a sharpie to mark CDs and haven't run into a problem yet.

Jim Maki
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Shkabara
>
> I just discovered how fragile the top surface of a CDR disc
> is. I put an
> Avery type address label on one and tried burning some data.
> The burn failed
> and 40x, so I lowered the burn speed and tried for a new
> disc. Instead of
> printing another label, I tried to pull off the label from
> the first disk.
> SURPRISE! The silvered coating came off with the label.
>
> This experience makes me feel a lot less secure about all the
> backups I am
> placing onto CDRs. I can now visualize the ink from a felt tip marker
> seeping through the porous silvering and making the disc
> unreadable. I have
> not had this happen yet, but I am starting to worry.
>
> Any thoughts on input as to what works and what does not?
> What are your
> experiences with labeling a disc? Without a label of some
> sort, the disk is
> difficult to identify!
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Peter
>
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