I have NEVER used sticky labels. Was warned when I started putting
things on CD by people concerned with data preservation at the
University of Alberta to never use the things. Even for CDs which I
make for my students. They do not stand up well and apparently with
some wear or humidity can make the CD unbalanced even when the thing in
on the disc properly. This becomes a problem apparently in some cheaper
players which the students tend to use. So instead of a nice label
people have to try to decipher my scratchy handwriting but tough - at
least they have the most durable thing I can give them.
Barb Beck
Edmonton
Greg Clark wrote:
>Hello all,
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>As long as we are discussing the troubles with CDs I thought I would
>mention the problems with sticky labels and felt tip pens. At the
>Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group conference I went to in Narooma
>(in 2003) the archivist that gave us a nice presentation informed the group
>about the troubles they had with stick-on labels and marking on the top of
>the CD with felt tip pen. If a CD has no protective layer on top (like the
>CDs made to be written on, or printed on with an ink-jet printer) there is
>some chance that the data will be corrupted by the adhesive on the label,
>or the ink from the pen. Ever since, I have followed his recommendation
>that one only writes in the little clear ring at the very center where
>there is no data. If I am using low cost media I put an ID number there and
>that is all I need to know what is on the CD. I still use sticky labels for
>my projects that go to schools where I am making them in large numbers, but
>I don't use sticky labels anymore for my archived discs. I too will want to
>go to better media after reading about the heat and light issues, but I
>still think it wise to write only on the inner clear ring if that is enough
>to do the ID job.
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>Greg Clark
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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