What do you label CD/DVD's with?

[808smokey]

Hi,

I've heard that writing on a DVD/CD with a Sharpie Marker can lead to an unreadable disc in the future. I've been using sharpies for years and never had any problems from that. Usually the disc becomes scrathed or lost. But I've been making backups of my software, data, and images of my OS hard drives and keep them in a fire proof safe. Now I'm wondering if they'll work say a year or two down the road.

Is this and "urban legend" or is there some truth to this?

Your thoughts...

[ROF]

I've been using sharpies since the invention of optical burning drives. The discs burnt a decade ago read just as good as those I burnt this afternoon.

[d_unbeliever]

i used pentel pen. write the label on the transparent circle on the innermost part of my cd. just beside the whole of the cd. i think it will not affect my data coz no data is written there.

[isogonic]

it seems it may not matter anyway:

http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,107607,00.html

[redwudz]

Definitely a 'urban legend'. Sharpies rule. Good penmanship helps.

[b1tchm4gn3t]

I use my Epson R220 with the 'print to center' disks. Shouldnt there be a 'I print them with a cd/dvd printer' option?

[ROF]

it seems it may not matter anyway:

http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,107607,00.html

There are already several topics here where members have said this story is fiction. Like many others I have burnt media over a decade old which has been kept in the harshest of environments (my vehicle) and yet it continues to play the same as it did the day I burnt it.

[waheed]

I use a sharpie, simple and inexpensive way of doing so. have done so for years on dvdrs, and several years on cdrs, never had a problem.

[guns1inger]

I once knew a guy who was convinced that if you played your CDs too much, the laser would wear a groove in them. True story. He is probably the same idiot that started the "Sharpies will ruin your DVD" story.

Another vote for the humble sharpie

[drjtech]

Shouldnt there be a 'I print them with a cd/dvd printer' option?

That's my option as well.

-drj

[yoda313]

I use sharpies - cheap and easy and no problems.

[non-linear]

I use inkjet printable discs and my Epson R200 printer. For any discs that aren't inkjet printable, I use a Sharpie.

[LSchafroth]

Been putting full cover labels on mine since the beginning. Have not had a single problem with any.

LS

[808smokey]

Shouldnt there be a 'I print them with a cd/dvd printer' option?

That's my option as well.

-drj

I put the option in there for the two of you 8)

[rallynavvie]

Almost everything runs through my R320 or my Everest II depending on what the print calls for. If it's just a quickie burn for a test or something then it'll just get a Sharpie scribble on it.