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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: miscelaneous cd labels for inkjet printers
« on: January 18, 2006, 07:03 AM »
Thought I will share my experience on CD Labels (the glued on type).
Basically if you are the James Bond or Mission Impossible type person, then you would want to use CD Labels.
Why ? simply because the CD labels will (Or should I say may) cause your CD to self destruct.
What apparently happens is that the glue chemicals react slowly with the layer that stores the data and causing it over time (maybe a year or two) to become unreadable.
In any case, this is what I experienced. I was scratching my head for quite a while until I noticed that only my CDs that had CD Labels that I stuck on were the ones that were causing me problems.
Here are some articles on the subject :
http://www.langa.com...003/2003-11-06.htm#1
http://www.informati...l?articleID=15800263
One way round this is to use printable CDs.
I have not had problems with printing them (yet !) with a Canon inkjet printer. Many models now come with a CDR tray for you to insert a printable CD.
Basically the lesson learnt is don't stick any labels, even small ones on CDs that you want to last a long time. And to be doubly sure, "label" them with a permanent pen (preferably on the areas around the centre transparent portion where no data is written)
Basically if you are the James Bond or Mission Impossible type person, then you would want to use CD Labels.
Why ? simply because the CD labels will (Or should I say may) cause your CD to self destruct.
What apparently happens is that the glue chemicals react slowly with the layer that stores the data and causing it over time (maybe a year or two) to become unreadable.
In any case, this is what I experienced. I was scratching my head for quite a while until I noticed that only my CDs that had CD Labels that I stuck on were the ones that were causing me problems.
Here are some articles on the subject :
http://www.langa.com...003/2003-11-06.htm#1
http://www.informati...l?articleID=15800263
One way round this is to use printable CDs.
I have not had problems with printing them (yet !) with a Canon inkjet printer. Many models now come with a CDR tray for you to insert a printable CD.
Basically the lesson learnt is don't stick any labels, even small ones on CDs that you want to last a long time. And to be doubly sure, "label" them with a permanent pen (preferably on the areas around the centre transparent portion where no data is written)