Digital BW, The Print

Actually there is still the Delkin products; they are making CD's and DVD's with gold and a special anti-scratch armour that must be of some help. I bought a lot of those and they are readable up to know (some of them are more than 5 years old)

Good luck

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Brubaker family <brubaker_family@...> wrote:
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> The most permanent CD/DVDs are "gold" and use a special long lasting dye (I can't remember the chemical name right now). Â All CD/DVDs have a dye layer which is what the laser "burns." Â The usually gold or silver layer you see is a protective coating on the dye layer, and gold (real gold) is the best and expensive, but provides the best protection for the dye layer. Â So the longest lasting CD/DVDs have a best dye layer and a best protective layer. Â The long discontinued Kodak gold CD-Rs were some of the best and much sought after and expensive. Â inljetart.com used to carry CD/DVDs similar to the Kodak ones, but a quick look at their web site doesn't show them any more. Â I had some music CD-Rs I burned on cheap disks and within a year they were junk with the sound all garbled. Fortunately I stocked up on 50 of the Inkjet Art CD-Rs to use instead!
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> --- On Wed, 2/9/11, Patrick Carr <patcarr@...> wrote:
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> From: Patrick Carr <patcarr@...>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] CD/DVD failure?
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 6:09 PM
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