Hello again everyone , a friend at work told me something about a show he was watching, in the program they were saying that the glue from self stick labels and ink from a permanent marker will eventually destroy a cd or dvd , does anyone know if this is true , he said something about the alcohol that are in the labels and ink do something to the disks , i have never heard of anything like this and figured this would be the place to ask, thx !!!!
the stick on labels end up screwing up the cds. the printed ones right onto the disk are the better ones but i dont know what the long term process is. sharpies are alwayws good.
Sharpies are the safest way to labeling dvds and cds. I've answered many dvd backup playback issues and the culprit was usually those sticker type labels. Peeling those labels off usually took care of that issue.I don't hear of drives being ruined because of them,mainly playback issues on stand alone players. The sticker label can absorb heat and can be unbalanced if not placed evenly and smoothly on disc. A disc applicator is a must with those sticker labels.Some have great success with it,others not so fortunant. I use some of the full hub inkjet printable media. So far this is an acceptible labeling system and excellent playback. The epson r-200/r-300/r-320 photo jet printers print directly on the disc itself. Canon also makes a labeling printer,but can only find them over in europe. They also make shiny inkjet printable media to give your discs a special look. Then you have the lightscribe burners and special lightscribe media.I've got the HP 640c lightscribe dvd-rw drive sitting in a box.It's overall performance is sub-par, so the lightscribe feature is of no use to me.
From what my friend said its not so much the labels creating anykind of an unbalanced issue although i have heard they sometimes do but it was something to do with chemicals in the labels themselves and the ink in the marker absorbing into the disk .......ruining the disk a few years down the road ......i'd like to know how true this is before i continue making anymore labels for my disks anyone???
the chemicals have to eat thru a layer of varnish & a layer of aluminum before getting to the plastic & that is just the silver top cd/dvd's. on the others it has another layer of finish to go thru if the printed or printable cd/dvd's. worry about the media quality itself as some types like memosucks have been known to crap out after a year or less.
unlikely unless the glue is very acidic by accident. i'd worry about the quality of the disks 1st before worrying about the label glue.
