Determining blank DVD brand?

You can try Googling the code number on the inner part of the silvery ring and see what you get. Or at least the half before the ”-”.

David, you need a piece of software like DVD media inspector to read the media ID (should be a TGY02 or TGY03 in yor case.

But this is also faked these days…
So, it is not because the media ID looks legit that you didn’t crappy DVDs.

Start reading here:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm

Then you’ll probably need to post a screen capture of “DVD media inspector” and a photo of the packaging in specialized forums to get the answer.
I can run tests with Nero on a PC, but I do not think Toast gives you the same option.

That is why I never rely on plastic for anything more than a stupid delivery vehicle. Hard drives are dirt cheap for deep storage, and can be resurrected, when dead. Plastic is toast when toast, no recovery possible, 99% of the time.

It’s mainly for delivering to clients. Or for backing up less important data I don’t want to delete but don’t want cluttering up hard drives either. A lot of my commercial work doesn’t need to be kept for more than five or so years.
With the increasing capacity of hard drives (a generally good thing as prices decrease), I start to get worried about the volumes of data that would get lost if one breaks down. Yes, I back up to several, have online storage, but still…
How can you check clients don’t archive your work? I don’t mind if they do: at least it means I don’t get frantic phone calls six months after the job has been delivered asking me to find the pictures because the original DVD has been mislaid.

David,

I thought it was suspicious because I have Taiyo Yuden CDs I purchased in Japan. The brand name (That`s) and the manufacturer, Taiyo Yuden, are clearly printed on the disk. There is additional printing on the inner ring, but I cannot decipher it.

However, I looked up DVDs on yodobashi.com. They do sell blank DVDs that are printable with no printed letters on the disks.

Why don`t you contact the manufacturer?

I might add that CD`s used by my prolab have no printing on while CD`s I purchased are all have brand names printed. Therefore it is not unusual to see no brand name printed on discs.

Now that I think of this, I recalled I posted about the blank back of a Fuji Arhival print I got from a digital printer. They were using blank printing paper. For publishers, photo or digital publishers would not want the brand name on the photo paper nor blank discs.