[ale] OT: Labels on CD-Rs

[Geoffrey]

I've never heard of these issues, but I wonder how it is that there are 
all these labeling kits available if this is a real problem.

I've burned a number of audio cds recently and labeled them all.  No 
problems.

Also, I've always written on all my burned cds with a sharpie, and narry 
a problem.

I'd be interested to hear further info you might get.

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I had a couple of rolls of film developed at Wal-Mart today and I've
> started having a CD made whenever I take film in; keeps me from having
> to scan prints and it's not all that expensive.
> 
> Anyway, I picked up my stuff and the CD - a Memorex CD-R - and they had
> stuck a roughly 1" by 4" rectangular printed adhesive label on the back
> of the CD-R.
> 
> Now, back in the day, I know you could do that and it was no big deal,
> but now that we have 52-time and 58-time CD drives, it's my
> understanding that you can't even get too heavyhanded with a Sharpie
> anymore and that you in fact run the risk of having the CD-R shatter in
> the drive.  
> 
> Anyway, when I got home, I saw the label and said, this has got to go,
> so I started to peel it off and...whoops, off comes a roughly 3cm by 3cm
> patch of the the white CD backing, with the aluminum on one side of
> it!!!!  Left behind was laser-etched tinted transparent plastic!!
> 
> It has been my understanding that a metal-less CD can actually be read,
> however, I think that the slightly-pulled-up aluminum around the ragged
> edges of this hole in the backing makes it impossible to read - I tried
> it in several drives.
> 
> It occurs to me that this must be a really cheap CD-R that has the
> reflective coating under what appears to be no more than a layer of
> paint.  I want to bring my negs back to get them to burn me a new CD-R,
> but I think I'll bring them one of my own blanks.
> 
> So am I right to have tried to remove the label?  I didn't even want to
> put it in a drive because I could imagine the vibration that would set
> up and that's not a good thing to do to a hard drive, bolted in just
> below.
> 
> - Jeff
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