Caution! Scanning Cd Labels

[Daffy D]

So I had copied a CD and instead of searching the Net for a label thought I would just scan the CD label and print from that.

Every thing was fine till I tried to take the CD off glass plate of the flatbed scanner. I just couldn't get a grip on it and the disk kept sliding around like a puck at a hockey match.

After a while of playing finger ice hockey called the wife as she has longer nails than me to have a go. Got the usual "huh! useless Falang" look till she also could not get the disk off the glass.

This was starting to get silly. Luckily a Friend of the wifes who has even longer finger nails was visiting and she was called in to have a go. She too had problems trying to get a lift on the disk but did eventually manage it.

So remember if you are going to put a CD or DVD disk on your flatbed scanner you may have problems getting it off again.

[dave_boo]

How humid was it?

I'm asking because that sounds like perhaps there was enough moisture on the surface of the disc/scanner to create quite a bit of surface tension. van der Waals' Bonding would seem to indicate that perhaps the charge from the scanning created a greater than normal dipole moment; something that heat should counteract. Interesting....

[Jangot]

Rather than try to pick it off using fingernails - which creates vertical tension in the (molecular or electrostatic) bond, could you not slide a piece of paper between the plate and the disk, thus releasing thebond without force.

J.

[Daffy D]

We live near the coast and it has been raining at some time every day so the humidity is quite high. Always feel damp.

Had not used the scanner for some time so maybe the humidity had an effect. Maybe should warm it up before I try that again.

[sensei]

A little piece of sticky tape to the center or the side of the disk could have helped somehow.

[Daffy D]

A little piece of sticky tape to the center or the side of the disk could have helped somehow.

Good idea will remember that

[opalhort]

You may also try some cling film like M-Wrap on the scanner glass or CD. Just make sure there are no air-bubbles or wrinkles.

opalhort

[rodcourt49]

You may also try some cling film like M-Wrap on the scanner glass or CD. Just make sure there are no air-bubbles or wrinkles.

opalhort

OR..keep your wifes' friend close by for future burnings