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I just read a post on another forum that might be significant to any of you who have a printer that will label CDs or DVDs. The guy was asking for ideas for getting a CD out of his internal burner. He’d run a blank CD through his inkjet printer to label it, and then he put it in the computer for burning. He got distracted, and the CD stayed in the burner for a couple of hours. When he went back to get it out, it was stuck up inside. Apparently the prolonged heat generated by the computer had fused the labeled side of the disk to the upper area of the drive.
There are some unknowns here – obviously, but it does make a certain amount of sense that the ink on a recently-labeled anything may stay soft for a while. I know I’ve learned to let pictures dry for a couple of days before framing them to give the ink time to dry thoroughly. It isn’t hard for me to imagine how a freshly labeled CD could get stuck under circumstances described above.
So, if you use an inkjet to label your CDs, either make sure the ink is very dry before burning or don’t forget to take the disk out of the drive as soon as the burn is done!
There are some unknowns here – obviously, but it does make a certain amount of sense that the ink on a recently-labeled anything may stay soft for a while. I know I’ve learned to let pictures dry for a couple of days before framing them to give the ink time to dry thoroughly. It isn’t hard for me to imagine how a freshly labeled CD could get stuck under circumstances described above.
So, if you use an inkjet to label your CDs, either make sure the ink is very dry before burning or don’t forget to take the disk out of the drive as soon as the burn is done!
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