[PADG:1281] RE: Surface printing on CDs and DVDs

["Cybulski, Walter \(NIH/NLM\) [E]" <Cybulskw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ann Marie:

 

Related to topic - though perhaps not answering your specific question - CCI has published Joe Iraci's "Remedies for Deteriorated or Damaged Modern Information Carriers" (Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Conservation Institute, 2005) (Technical Bulletin No. 27).

 

Ordering information:

https://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/bookstore/viewCategory-e.cfm?id=18&thispubid=511

 

Moulded pits in read-only discs:"can become damaged from a sharp object (e.g. writing on the disc with a pencil or ball point pen") - p. 6.

 

- Walter Cybulski

NLM

 

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From: Ann Marie Willer [mailto:amwillerala@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:17 PM
To: padg@xxxxxxx
Subject: [PADG:1279] Surface printing on CDs and DVDs

Hi all,

Thanks to Tyra for the handy links below.  Can anyone suggest resources about the long-term effects of surface printing on CDs and DVDs or perhaps relay your own experience?  One of our librarians is wondering if surface printing is a way to safely label discs that are dub masters. 

 

Thanks,

Ann Marie

"Grant, Tyra" <tgrant@xxxxxx> wrote:

I'll try again to send these links (which somehow didn't make it to the list)...all of these are worth knowing about.  Tyra Grant

Three recent works on CDs/DVDs; I suspect you have these but not sure others have seen all three.

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001477/147782E.pdf

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwog/Public%20SP%20500-263%20November%202005.pdf#search=%22NIST%20and%20disk%20longevity%22

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Forum-Bestandserhaltung/downloads/iraci.pdf

Ann Marie 
Willer
Preservation Services Librarian
Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Building 14-0513
Cambridge, MA 
02139
617-253-5692 phone

Send ALA business to: AMWillerALA@xxxxxxxxx

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