On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Russell McMahon wrote:

>> Some discussions I have seen on this have identified problems with the 
>> stick on labels - the glue of the label appears to attack the dye. Moral 
>> is - use only a felt pen if you want your data to survive.
>
> Avoid inks with Xylene in them (amongst, no doubt, other things). Does your 
> marker use Xylene? :-)

I use a marker that probably contains Xylene to write on cdr backs. The 
Xylene gets out of the paint within 20 seconds by evaporation and it 
does not seem to be able to reach the dye through the backing during 
that time. My marker is Sanford brand. I have used it for years now. The 
writable backing of not-of-the-cheapest-kind media seems to work well 
like this. No failures so far.

Peter
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