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Inkjet printable CD/DVDs not quite as good as I'd hoped
crashwg:
I've had my Epson Photo R200 for a little while now and even printed like 50 disks or so. I like the fact that all my DVDs come out looking uniform and not like the old Sharpie chicken scratch method I used to deal with but I kinda have a problem with the fact that even after a month of drying, a little bit of moisture and the ink just rubs right off!
The options that I've come up with so far are:
1. Put some sort of clear label over the ink
2. Clearcoat spraypaint
3. some crap they sell at the art store to stop even charcoal drawings from smudging
The clear lable doesn't realy make all that much sense to me because if I wanted to put something on the disk why would I have gone for the inkjet printable disks in the first place right?
Spraypaint I think may be a good idea but I'm a tad bit worried about chipping and also about making the disk off ballance
the crap from the art store was suggested by my sister who was realy into art in highschool and I don't have any information on it other than it sprays on... Sounds kinda like spraypaint to me. :P
So is there anyone else who has experienced this? Even if you haven't, please, if you have a suggestion go ahead and share.
shmokes:
Hmm...I have the R800 and haven't noticed this problem at all. It could be that I just haven't subjected any of my discs to moisture, I suppose. Does the R200 use pigment or dye based inks? Mine uses the pigment based inks which are supposedly archival quality - last 70 years or something. Maybe they would be more resistent to that sort of thing. That doesn't help you any, of course.
mr.Curmudgeon:
One questions this raises though:
Crashwg,
Why are your CD's getting moist? :-\
Sephroth57:
i was going to ask the same thing... i leave my cds in the car and they dont get "moist", so i dunno what hes doin with these cds... unless hes really thin.... ok, too much thought... eww
Stingray:
--- Quote from: crashwg on May 09, 2005, 02:42:55 am ---
3. some crap they sell at the art store to stop even charcoal drawings from smudging
Sounds kinda like spraypaint to me.
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It sprays on like spraypaint, but it isn't as thick & heavy, it's more like hair spray. Can't think of what it's called off the top of my head, but it might be worth a try.
-S