The white paint that makes the label may not be a lacquer coating. In fact, the white label is usually designed to accept inks, since its purpose is to hold graphic information.
Art Cliff Ober wrote: > The other day I mentioned the diffusion aspects of the Sharpie inks with > plastics; I took a look at some Memorex CD's I wrote about a year ago > and marked on in the white label area with a medium point Sharpie (these > are short-term backup CD's not archival stuff). The marker ink has > visibly diffused into the white label "paint" or lacquer coating. The > disks have not yet exhibited any problems with data loss, but I sure > wouldn't want to trust marking on important CD's after seeing this... > (not that I'd use Memorex for anything really important anyhow). > > Cliff > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
