I think I read (or heard) somewhere, that for archival purposes (like this, or for data backup of any kind), <div>it is better to use one of those WORM devices -- (&quot;write once, read mostly&quot;) </div><div>-- instead of &quot;erasable&quot; discs, which even though they may be &quot;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">called</span>&quot; CD-ROM discs, they are designed so that you can erase the data and re-use them, and hence the data might be less likely to still be there for your grandchildren. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Another idea:  maybe you could stick the data (even temporarily) on a web server, and then &quot;back it up&quot; using </div><div><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/">http://www.webcitation.org/</a><br>
</div><div>(See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcite">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcite</a> )</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Just a suggestion (or 2).</span></div><div>-- <br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mike Schwartz    </span><br>Glendale  AZ <br><a href="mailto:schwartz@acm.org">schwartz@acm.org</a><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Mark Jarvis <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:m.jarvis@cox.net">m.jarvis@cox.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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  <pre>From: Mark Jarvis <a href="mailto:m.jarvis@cox.net" target="_blank">&lt;m.jarvis@cox.net&gt;</a>
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    <pre>I&#39;d like to scan it in again but this time put the scanned pages
on a CD or DVD. Does anyone know of a reputable shop that they
would recommend for this? I could scan the pages myself, but
would prefer to find a source for making pressed disks.
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  <pre>Any place that does scanning would be able to do this, but you&#39;ll
pay quite a bit of $ for pressed disks.  Setup for that is really
expensive, and you&#39;re probably only going to press 10 or so copies.
I&#39;d say it&#39;s totally not worth it.  An audio CD I burned 9.5 years
ago has been living in my car for 9.5 years and still works fine,
so storing a burned data CD in the dark and at room temp should
work for double that.

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    <pre>If anyone can point me to where I can read up on preferred scan
resolution, output format, general information, etc
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  <pre>Text:  300 DPI Group4 TIFF, black-n-white
Black-n-white pictures:  300 DPI LZW TIFF, grayscale
Color pictures:  300 DPI LZW TIFF, RGB

...200 8.5x11&quot; pages in 300 DPI Group4 TIFF will fit in 100M.
Modify for how these pages are set up; grayscale and color use up
a lot more space because Group4 is insanely efficient.  TIFF is
pretty future-proof and is lossless unless you do something silly
like use JPEG-TIFF.

(Yeah, I worked extensively with scanning and TIFFs at my old job.)

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