My classiccmp non-retirement :-)

They aren't available at many brick-and-mortar stores, but Mitsubishi Gold CD-R's are undisputably the "gold standard". Kodak used to make Gold CD-R's too, but they got out of that business several years ago. I managed to buy a few palletfulls in their fire sale. Now Kodak has announced they'll no longer make black-and-white printing papers. I suppose that means that I have to get heavy back into B/W photography. (You'll also notice that I said "printing papers", when I was last heavy into photography Kodak was still selling "contact printing papers".) Maybe skip this whole paper thing, and print only on emulsion hand-coated on glass plates :-). Anyway, back to Gold CD-R's, they aren't real cheap, typically about $1 per CD-R. Tim.