On 1/6/03 9:29, John Stone wrote >Hello All, > >I posted many months back, about my friends iMac, that only burned >about 50% of the cds she tried to burn. Well after Complete Mac had >it for a month and a half(and replacing the cd burner five different >times) and couldn't get it to burn either. Majorally pissed off, she >called Apple to complain, Apple told her to take it to CompUSA, they >said they got it to work. But after getting it home still the same >only burnt about 50% of the cds tried. > >So I called Apple and spoke with Tech rep, he said what brand of cds >are you using, TDK, Memorex I replied..... OOhhhhh that's the problem >he says, try Verbatim or Fuji, that's why we include blank discs >w/all new computers w/cd burners, those are the only two brands we >recommend! So after tracking down some Fuji cds, and trying those it >burns every single one perfectly....... > >Can the manufacture of Verbatim or Fuji be so much different from >everyone else's? >
When I first bought a CD burner (back in 1998 or so), there were all sorts of pages about how well various blanks worked with various burners, and how well the burned CDs worked in various CD players. Essentially, the advice which I had gleaned was that each person needed to find a combination which worked well on their machines. I found that Verbatims gave pretty near 0 coasters (bad burns) on my older burner (can't remember the brand, got it from APS). Here at work, it's the same on my quicksilver g4 - verbatims work just fine. Maxells (the kind which I can find in the stock room) create coasters all the time. There is a difference in the ink layering on the disks. Heck, the reason that the blanks are different colors is because of the different layering patents. Perhaps the fujis use the same blue layer as the verbatims? There's a good source (well, "good" meaning I can read it, I've got no idea if it is "good" as in "correct") at http://www.cdrfaq.org/ Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
