How long do you want your scans to last? The general reputation is that
good quality CD-Rs will last long enough that current computers will have
removable storage incompatible with CD format, and you'll have to transfer
them to the new media while you can...
CD-RW are supposed to be less reliable, and possibly not last as long as
you'd like. Actually, all the new drives are dual purpose CD-R/RW, so you
can use either medium. Use RW for short term, if you need that, and good
CD-R for stuff you want to count on.
At 11:57 AM 02/12/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>I am so enjoying the list, learning as I go. I am happily scanning away
>on my new Minolta Scan Elite - running through slide scans quickly right
>now as I print out images I'll soon convert and put into a quark mockup
>for a new book project and here's my question....
>
>I knew I wouldn't have enough storage room since I'm scanning at high
>resolution and my files seem pretty big, especially after I work on them
>in photoshop and retain the layers, so.... any suggestions on a good CD-RW
>to hold all the stuff? And any considerations I should use as I shop? I
>am on a year-and-one-half year old MAC powerbook G3 (bronze keyboard) with
>USB, one SCSSI being taken up by the two scanners) but no firewire.
>--
>Sara Jane Boyers
>sjzb@earthlink.net
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