Removing Supercolor

[Mr. Thingdoer]

Does anybody know how to remove a supercolor stamp from an FLX disc?

[Leopard]

good luck -- i'm pretty sure that those are made with an in-mold decal, meaning the color is set into the plastic... not just applied or adhered. the only way to get it off that i know of is to remove the top surface of the disc... scratching, etc. but to take off the entire image you'd pretty much wreck the disc and/or make it illegal.

[Mr. Thingdoer]

I think it's just digitally printed UV inks.

[Fritz]

It's Dye Sublimation. It is impossible for you to remove that stamp.
It's actually part of the plastic now.

[Leopard]

I think it's just digitally printed UV inks.

innova thinks it's an in-mold decal

[ferretdance03]

It's Dye Sublimation. It is impossible for you to remove that stamp.
It's actually part of the plastic now.

I've removed portions of a Supercolor stamp before. It was a D Challenger, so I don't know if FLX plastic holds the stamp any better or not... Standard 100% Acetone.

[Mr. Thingdoer]

Thanks for the responses. I got it off with nail polish remover. As far as I can tell, it's not dye sub because the screen frequency is too fine, and apparently variable drop. There is the possibility that they have developed better equipment since I've last checked, but even then rolls of dye would seem to be cost prohibitive. It looks to me like UV curable of some sort. I'm guessing flatbed printer, Mimaki maybe?

[SkaBob]

On a related note, have any of you dyed supercolor discs? I got one of the FLX Drones from Worlds and I'd love to use it a bit over the winter, but it's white...If I dye it, will the colors in the stamp change, as well?

[ChUcK]

Never tried dyeing a supercolor. Most of them, in my opinion, look way better than any dye job could ever achieve anyways.

[Leopard]

ya learn stuff every day

same process for all plastics?

i want pretty plastic

[SkaBob]

Never tried dyeing a supercolor. Most of them, in my opinion, look way better than any dye job could ever achieve anyways.

I dig the supercolor on this one disc, but it's white...I hate white discs because you can't use them in the winter, here...

[MR. WICK]

I've tried acetone. It didn't work. Just looks like a blured white mess now.

[ChUcK]

I dig the supercolor on this one disc, but it's white...I hate white discs because you can't use them in the winter, here...

Does that make it a SuperWhite? I guess when I think of supercolors the stock prints Discraft puts on their surges are what comes to mind... though I guess you can have a supercolor of anything, even crappy art.

Post pictures of the one that's a blurred white mess- I'd like to see what happened.

[SkaBob]

Supercolor discs are all white, with a very colorful image printed on it.

Here's a gallery of some supercolor discs:

http://www.discraft.com/gallery/supercolor/index.html

[dgdave]

I've had black supercolor Buzzzs and Challengers