Review on 📀 Verbatim 95123 DataLifePlus DVD+R DL, 8.5GB, 2.4x, White Inkjet Printable, Pack of 20 Discs by Jorge Toussaint

Verbatim is my standard for optical media so I mostly bought it because I had luck with the Verbatim CD-R, all the tests I read showed very good reliability of their CD -R and when researching which factories they use to make their CD-Rs they tend to stick with the same factory which means you can actually predict which manufacturer you are actually sourcing the media from. As for other brands (Ritek springs to mind), even if you buy the same brand and product number every time, you can have media made at any completely random location that won the production bid last time. If any of these factories tend to mint coasters, then you end up playing roulette every time you buy a box. So some brand names don't really mean anything. (Although I should clarify this by saying that all of my research is several years out of date and I have no idea what, if any, has changed about the company's manufacturing methods since then). I can specify the quality of the print but not the number of bounces. For the benefit of others, here are the settings I used with my Epson Stylus Photo R3000 (UltraChrome K3 pigment ink) and the included Epson Easy CD software. :- Inner diameter: 36mm- Outer diameter: 119mm-"CD/DVD Premium Surface - PK" (black photo ink, non-matte)- Everything else as standard. The alignment on my printer was within 0.5mm without adjustment. (My rough estimate was 0.2mm on one axis and 0.4mm on the other, not enough for anyone to notice.) The software setting of 36-119mm covered the entire print area. The results look good, if not by much. boring in saturation with these settings. Next time I'll increase what my program calls "color correction" (it's really just "saturation," I'm told) setting by +2. If your printer's internal color setting does not normally print oversaturated colors, you can also start with a higher saturation setting than the default. The surface seems to have absorbed the ink very well. After a few hours I tried the stain test at the very edge and didn't notice anything. (I let these things dry for 24 hours anyway, so I never know how long they actually dry.) So the printable surface looks pretty good, but I can't report a burn failure rate yet. .