Hi All,
I havent posted here for a few years now, but have come into some problems…
I have an Epson R200 printer and print directly onto my discs.
I have always bought relatively cheap blank DVD-Rs.
Sometimes silver ones and sometimes white ones.
I was searching the net the other week and discovered Verbatim “glossy” photo printable DVD-Rs.
They seemed too good to be true and after reading lots of reviews, I decided to try some, so I ordered 25 from SVP. They arrived the next day and looked amazing. I had read that some people had problems with the drying of the ink etc.
Anyway, after about 3 coasters, I managed to burn some movies and print them, WOW, they looked amazing !!!
I left them for about 48 hours and decided to give the ink a “light touch” to make sure it was dry and no, it smudged !!!, so I printed some more and decided to leave them for 1 week. After 1 week, I done the same test and they still smudged…
So, my conclusion, they look amazing but are not practable…
So, back to searching the net I went… and I found Taiyo Yuden “Watershield” glossy DVD-Rs. Again, I read the reviews and they sounded amazing… so I ordered 50 from SVP, they were exspensive, but thought they might be worth it. So far so good, they are amazing !!! nice glossy finish, no coasters and the ink is dry !! Superb.
Anyway, now back to the silver DVD-Rs, Sorry for the long story…
I have always bought either Ridisc, Datasafe or Datawrite silver DVD-Rs, I quite like the look of the “holographic” effect and never had any problems with ink drying etc.
I recently bought some Ridisc DVD-Rs and they printed fine like they always do, I left some discs that I printed for about 3 - 4 days. I lightly “stroked” the disc with the back of my finger and I noticed it leaves a “mark”, not a smudge mark, but a kind of light scratch mark. I cant been seen all the time, only in certain light angles… and this is now bugging me…
So, I was wondering if this is normal and if anyone else has noticed this, or any advise would be nice to see what silver discs you all use…
Maybe there is a silver disc with results like the “watershield” discs ???
I know you can buy the spray to protect discs, but im not really into that.
Any help / advise is appreciated…
TIA.
Lincon.