Hey, I have a set of floppy disks that have garbage written over the logos in sharpie.
The floppies are printed like the ones below, so they don't have write in labels. I heard that rubbing alcohol can remove sharpie, is this true for my case?
ps I may or may not of wrote that on them a very very very long time ago
How do I remove sharpies from a floppydisk lable.
Re: How do I remove sharpies from a floppydisk lable.
If you rub alcohol on paper tags then you will destroy the labels. Unfortunately there's not much you can do here... if it's on plastic discs you can always use alcohol to remove it, but not on paper labels. The best we can do is photoshop it out, but that's always difficult as well.
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I do have some skills in Photoshop fortunately so that wouldn't be a issue. Thanks for the response!mrpijey wrote:If you rub alcohol on paper tags then you will destroy the labels. Unfortunately there's not much you can do here... if it's on plastic discs you can always use alcohol to remove it, but not on paper labels. The best we can do is photoshop it out, but that's always difficult as well.
Re: How do I remove sharpies from a floppydisk lable.
This won't help you with labels, but here's a bit of background info: Alcohol is used to solve (most of) the ink so it can be wiped away. In cases where alcohol is too weak, melamine foam ("Magic Eraser") often works wonders. But like alcohol, that too is for superficial stains (e.g. on plastic) only, too - it works like really fine sandpaper, basically (so maybe better don't try it on rare/expensive optical discs). With paper labels though, unfortunately the ink soaks deep into the material and won't really come out either way.
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Re: How do I remove sharpies from a floppydisk lable.
I can do it when i get some free time im good at photoshop.7delta wrote:I do have some skills in Photoshop fortunately so that wouldn't be a issue. Thanks for the response!mrpijey wrote:If you rub alcohol on paper tags then you will destroy the labels. Unfortunately there's not much you can do here... if it's on plastic discs you can always use alcohol to remove it, but not on paper labels. The best we can do is photoshop it out, but that's always difficult as well.
Re: How do I remove sharpies from a floppydisk lable.
My first thought was some variant of acetone. I found the link below which is a much more well thought out plan for removing permanent marker with Acetone. Hope it helps.
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf153383.tip.htmlI used pure acetone (its an ingredient of fingernail polish) and a Q-tip. I got most of the color out doing this. Then to get out areas with concentrated ink saturation: wait for the acetone on the paper to mostly dry, put a little bit of white out over the stubborn spot, and then use a Q-tip soaked in acetone to gently wipe off the white out. The ink should come out as well. Just be careful you do not get the paper so saturated that it starts to peel
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Re: How do I remove sharpies from a floppydisk lable.
That would probably make the paper all wrinkly or something. Using Photoshop would be less of a hassle.
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Be careful, they might be creepypasta discs!
Ya, it would be better to photoshop it out. Rubbing it with alcohol might have bad consequences.