Re: [ARSCLIST] Mitsui / MAM-A Gold CD's

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've never seen a fingerprint on any of the hundreds of Mitsui/MAM gold discs I've burned for myself 
and clients. Neither have I ever had a failure or returned disc.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christie Peterson" <cpeterso@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:00 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Mitsui / MAM-A Gold CD's


> Back in the discussion last week or so about CD-R's,
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> Charles Lawson wrote:
> > [Mitsui recently shifted their manufacturing from Japan to the US and
> > France.  As a result, their quality control is suffering and it's not
> > uncommon to take a disc out of its shrinkwrapping and find fingerprints or
> > greasy smears "factory installed."  However, my average in these
> > discoveries is about one out of every 25 discs...but it used to be ZERO.]
> I'm curious if anyone knows a way to tell where a CD was produced by looking at it (apart from 
> finding a lot of greasy smears), like lot numbers or something?  I haven't been finding any CD's 
> like this in the batch I just purchased, but I wonder how old the stock was?
>
> Christie Peterson
> Project Archivist, Muskie Archives & Special Collections
> Bates College
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