Printing on non-printable disks

[LotToLearn]

Is there any reason that spraying a "non-printable" DVD disk with a light Krylon matte finish and then printing over it using an Epson 960 disk printer would not work? Specifically, is there any reason this might damage the printer if it did not work?

Has anybody tried this? Finding media my burner likes is difficult enough without having to restrict myself to just the "printable" ones.

[iooi]

Might work might not...
Only one way to find out. Cant see it doing any harm to printer.
Luckly there is a very limited range of inkjet printable disk at present....
Ask your usual supplier if you can have a couple of printable samples to try.

[overloaded_ide]

The only thing I would worry about I think would be getting an uneven coating and throwing the disk off ballance. I don't know if that could happen with a spray like that or not?

Otherwise I don't see what it could hurt to try. The print heads are not supposed to actually touch the disk when printing so I don't see how it could hurt to try.

For printables, you could try riteks if you haven'y yet. Most people seem to be doing good with those disks.

[Roll Tide]

A while back, I actually tried this on a silver-top coaster I had laying around. I sprayed it with the clear matte Krylon, let it dry, and then printed it on an Epson 900. I seem to recall it dried reasonably quick. The resulting image is sort of soft, but you can read it. The graphic I printed was a light blue and yellow Simpson's label, so that may be why it looked that way. It may have been more acceptable if I had used darker colors.

This is the only one I tried, so there's my $.02. I wouldn't recommend it as a normal process, because it is difficult to protect the recording surface while spraying.

For those experimenting out there, Glad has a new wrap called Press 'n' Seal, which when applied to the recording surface, should seal it from overspray. The wrap uses a very light adhesive, but I tried it on a CD surface and will pull away clean as long as you don't leave it on for an extended period of time. I left one sealed several days, intending to spray the disc. I never did, and several weeks later the wrap left some of the adhesive on the surface of the disc. If you remove it after spraying, it should come off completely with no residue (I tested this also).