[hellooldchap42]

Ok, I was wondering about Verbatim DVD-R DL discs and whether or not they are all Lightscribe compatible. I found these two variants of the discs (here and here) and wondered if they would both be safe? Probably not, but better to have confirmation than just a guess.

That being said, would the Lightscribes even be as reliable as the regular ones for creating backups? It would be nice to be able to put a label on them that easily.

[Cheesethief]

The 20 pack spindle is non-lightscribe.

The chemicals used to create the recording layer should be identical, lightscribe or not. Make sure you get the discs that are made in Singapore. Elsewhere their quality drops drastically.

[hellooldchap42]

Huh... Is that the case with all discs, rather than just Verbatim? I really didn't even think about the place of manufacture being an issue.

[japsander]

from my experience, lightscribe discs use poorer quality dye by comparison to non lightscribe. maybe its down to costs, i dunno. maybe its the burning of the non data side that causes a problem.

how about printing to the discs as an alternative. it looks better too with printed vs burned

if you want to go that route order a sample and run it through a media checker to get the dye type and place of manufacture before commiting to a batch

place of manufacture do indeed cause a big issue. i have had 100% fail rate with a batch of verbatims
MKM-001-00 = good
MKM-003-00 = hit and miss