Also, the adhesive can cause the data storage life of writable CDs to be
shortened considerably, presumably by degrading the dyes that hold the
information as dark and light spots
(
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq07.html#S7-7-2).
If all of this makes you leery of labels (and it should!), either use a pen
meant for marking on plastic, such as a Sharpie, or look into LightScribe
technology (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe).
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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Graham Mayor wrote:
Word is a thoroughly useless application for creating CD labels. It
will take forever to get the page to line up with the labels and even
then the finished reults will be poor. Better to use Publisher, and
much better to use Surething CD Labeller which does the job properly
- however bear in mind that aside from audio CDs designed to play in
a stand-alone player, using adhesive paper labels on CDs is a very
bad idea. They can set up sufficient out of balance forces to destroy
the player. Note that players will rotate at up to 52x normal CD
speed. If you have a few moments, calculate the rotation speed that
this produces. I think you may be shocked!
Jay Freedman wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:44:34 -0700, Adam
wrote:
Are there templates built in?
No, there aren't. If you can match the size and location of the
labels to ones from Avery (such as 8691 and 8692), Compulabel, or
any of the other brands listed in the Options dialog of the Label
wizard, use that. Otherwise, click the New Label button at the
bottom of that Options dialog and enter the measurements to create a
custom label definition.