Gentle HP 3000 listers, I apologize for interruption the ongoing discussion with an off-topic question, but there is much diverse knowledge and sagacity in this list. Does anyone have any experience with CD-R? I have a customer who has bought 2 HP SureStore CD-Rs in the last two years, and they both committed suicide after one year. The most recent one is a 4020. Does this experience track with anybody else's? I recently bought a Sony CDU-926S and I am quite pleased with it. But it is new. I would hate to recommend it to anyone until I have burned a few hundred CD-Rs in it. (Maybe by HP World.) Also, if you do use a CD-R, which medium do you use and what experience have you had with it? I use mainly TDK and some Verbatim, Sony and Phillips. There are some idiosyncrasies with reading CD-R depending on the medium, but overall it has been very good. Please reply to me directly as this is off-topic and I do not believe most people are interested in this subject. Kind regards, Denys. . . Denys Beauchemin Hicomp America, Inc. [log in to unmask] www.hicomp.com (800) 323-8863 (281) 288-7438 fax: (281) 355-6879