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Dan Espen

(Don Klipstein) writes:

In article , Dan Espen wrote:

Those Sharpies are pretty cool.
They do a great job writing on CDs too.
Lots of other inks just form drops,
The Sharpie ink dries smoothly and quickly even on glass.

There is a concern that the solvent in Sharpie ink will penetrate to and
ruin the data in a recordable CD because the data layer is so close to
that surface.

However, I have goten away with that so far, even with one recordable CD
where I saw from the data-read side the effect of the ink solvent actually
penetrating into the data layer and visible altering its reflection
characteristics.

Thanks.

I did some Googling and there doesn't seem to be any solid
evidence of Sharpie caused CD failure, but I guess anything
is a concern.

I'm close to finishing ripping our entire vinyl collection
of about 400 LPs. I haven't gotten to the 45s yet.
If Sharpies cause problems, I guess I'm going to know
about it sooner or later.