About 9 years ago I made some DVD's with a white inkjet printable surface. Now I find that when I use these DVD's the emulsion is coming off in the DVD player. I have to open up the player and clean it out. I have tried scraping it off myself before putting it in, but it is a long and messy job. I can't copy them to media without any printable surface without the surface coming off. Is there a way to copy them or remove the emulsion easily. Has anyone had experience with this?
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Have you considered trying various solvents and/or non-dust-producing abrasives to remove the emulsion?
You might start with relatively mild ones, such as alcohol, using cotton swabs/Q-tips on a test area and move toward more aggressive solvents if necessary.
Some candidates that come to mind: Car polish, polishing compound, Goof-Off, white toothpaste, etc.
Were I to try this, I'd certainly start on my least-favorite disc of these oldies.
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I assume you mean the top surfacere of the disc is lifting off, have you tried spraying lacquer for ink pritable discs on the printed surface to seal in the printed part, then at least you might be able to copy the DVDs before you lose them totally
Its basically the same stuff used for car paint lacquer but for ink
I did try car lacquer but it has a habit of just sitting on the printed surface and taking forever to dry. Some people have even suggested normal hair spray in a couple of very thin coats. Might be worth trying in a desperate situation
Also, try looking for Photographic Lacquer, you may have to try good photographic shops or art shops to find it. Apparently this spray stuff is designed to seal photographs and ink printed images for waterproofing and help prevent colour fading with time
This 'may' help you to seal the DVDs to copy them before they fail totally -
There's nothing inherently wrong with inkjet surfaces.
Rather it's a problem of the quality of the media, as is usual.
What brand of discs were these?
Media ID is not necessarily as important for inkjet discs, when discussing the surface.
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Oh I'm sorry...I assumed everyone here understood English.
By the word "equipment"...I meant A/V equipment...like the DVD player attached to your television....the (more)expensive stuff.
And by "copy" I meant stick the sticky, useless, expensive equipment-ruining DVDs in a $20 computer DVD drive, rip them to your computer's hard drive and re-burn them to DVD blanks that are NOT sticky, useless, expensive equipment ruining DVDs....then throw the sticky, useless, expensive equipment ruining DVDs into the garbage. Again I'm making the assumption that the OP knows what I'm talking about or knows how to do that....we all must take chances in life I guess. -
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