RANT! Burning some CDs for a con

[nadinbrzezinski]

boy Office depot brand are bad, so far 3 out of 20 are bad

[cynatnite]

1. I've always had good luck with Sony and Memorex...

never tried Office Depot's.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I did since they did not have the RW

and I didn't want to buy too many since we are getting the ligthscribe equipped machine

If need be weill be burning and labeling more of these by saturday

Yep we are getting a new toy and this one is dying a day at a time

[silverojo]

17. I only use Maxell and Memorex

Sony discs gave me a lot of shiny new coasters.

Depends a lot on your CD-RW drive...they can be kind of picky about which brands they like. Who knows why....

[Captain Angry]

3. My success rate with their brand and Staples brand was very low.

I've been pretty happy with BenQ, HP and Memorex.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Yep, but they only had 100

and as I said, I didn't want to buy too many of the labelable ones, we are getting a lightscribe equipmed machine

Happy, happy, joy joy... this one overheated and the mother board is going...

[Captain Angry]

10. How many disks are you trying to press out?

I work down the hall from a professional high capacity burner system. They record then press disks of a series of MBA courses. Then the disks go out all over the world. It's wild to see the spindle that holds 500 disks at a time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. twney at most

I will give them away at demos... they are the online magazine I publish and a free map making program

[Captain Angry]

12. Ah. As a post below stated, your burner might be unhappy too.

Make sure it's properly ventilated.

[Forkboy]

7. I've noticed with the HP ones that I've used that there seems to be a lot more pops and static.

It's kind of weird,because I know the source files and CDs are clean,but only the HP discs come out like that on my system. :shrug:

Memorex seems to be the consensus so far.

[Captain Angry]

9. Interesting. I guess I've only ever used them for data.

And as such, never noticed.

I know HP used to make music-specific CDR media. I wonder if there is a difference in the coatings between that and their data CDR media.

Weird.

[Forkboy]

5. Store brands seem to suck.

I use nothing but Memorex now,and rarely have to coaster one.Steer clear of Durabrand and HP.Got a fifty pack of the Durabrand once because they were cheap and seven of the first ten screwed up.I threw the rest away.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. So far 20% failure

damn it!

The Lightscribe will be memorex

[KillCapitalism]

8. Could your drive be the problem?

I used to have this Sony DVD-RW drive that would burn a lot of coasters, so I ditched it and got an LG and it never spits out coasters.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Will find out, as I typed above

We ordered our machine two weeks ago and it should be shipping tomorrow,

This one overheated and the motherboard is dying....

we knew it was time to ahem ditch it before it died when the mouse port died

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Ah that is impressive

100% failure, the cds that should have data, don't

Tomorrow will take the box and get my money back

[LSK]

15. I never have problems with memorex CDs

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Neither have I but they didn't have them

good news, I still have time, bad news, I hate it when this happens