General Questions
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Where can I find the metallic paper? I have tried the usual places but no one seems to know where to find it.
http://www.mpix.com/metallic.aspx . They sell metallic prints. The rub is that your entire order must be metallic. I haven’t found any consumer labs that let you mix and match metallic, glossy, and luster in the same order.
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Can I assume straight off that when Nero or some similar application differentiates between the source files being data vs anything, that static images are classified as data?
- Yes, images would be considered data. The program actually treats the “other than data” category much differently. There are at least two other types of copying you might want to do. One is to do a 1-to-1 full copy of an existing CD/DVD. Barring there aren’t any copyright protections against doing so, when Nero does this kind of copy, you’ll get an exact duplicate. Another kind of copy is what’s called an “ISO” copy. Basically, if you were to make an identical copy of a CD onto your hard drive, the program would create a file called an ISO file. This file contains all the data and information about the CD in one neat package that Nero ( and other CD burning tools ) can understand, allowing that ISO file to be copied and expanded from any other tool ISO manipulating, not just Nero. The advantage of this is that you can make an exact copy of your CD that can be stored away on a hard drive that could be retrieved and restored from any program in the future. A lot of times if you have only one CD/DVD drive, you’d have to create and ISO file first, then insert the blank CD and proceed to restore that ISO. Laptops, for example, might burn data this way, since most of them only have a single CD/DVD drive. Another example of using ISOs might be when you want to just queue up several discs at once, create their ISOs then come back later and burn them all in sequence.
- While DVD and CD formats do have different capacities, they may also have different internal representations of the data on the disc. The program can’t guess what you want to burn onto unless you have already inserted the disc. However, I think the main reason the distinction is made is so the user knows what they’re burning and doesn’t accidentally burn a CD when they mean to burn a DVD, or visa versa. Of course, making a copy of a music or video DVD is entirely different than making a copy of a music CD, so that might account for the difference as well. For all intents and purposes, though, if you put a blank CD or DVD into the drive, the program would guess that you wanted to burn onto that disk and assume the project type based on that.