Disposing of used Majicard dye film.

[Rob_D]

Hi Guys,

 

We use a Magicard Dye film printer to print all of our staff ID badges.

The used Dye film has readable, negative images of anything that was printed. So we're a little reticent to just throw them away.

Does anyone have use or know of a good way to destroy these or render them unreadable and safe for disposal?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Rob.

[forkies]

Can you cut each end of the film and shred it?

[Rob_D]

Can you cut each end of the film and shred it?

 

Thanks, it might come down to that. But I was hoping to avoid having to feed 160 odd meters of ribbon through a shredder.

[Marci]

Shred or burn are about your only two options... or find a bag heading off to be collected by secure disposal company if your place use one, and drop it in.

I do as above - chop off end, feed into shredder, turn on, watch with glee as it sucks it all in and shreds the lot. (The shreddings then go off to the secure disposal company)

[maxkops]

This very problem.

 

Shredding works.

Sit spool on top and it just rotates (shredder is loud and takes about 15mins but it will get it done eventually).

Tape paper into feed slot to fool auto stop mechanism.

 

[localzuk]

One option - https://www.digitalid.co.uk/product/idp-smart-bit-ribbon-shredder-2593

[maxkops]

Thanks for link, interesting and very useful if I was doing this industrially.

 

Get through 1-2 magicard spools a year so hard to justify.

 

I wonder if I can put those ancient office archive LTX Ultrium tapes through as well, tee hee.

The pdf leaflet suggests min 60mm width, pity.

[pete]

^ For the tapes

 

1) Use a hacksaw and cut through to the spindle on one side. Giving you tidily contained ~10cm strips of tape.

2) Label the tape as "DESTROYED" (so no-one feeds it into an auto-loader/tape drive by mistake) and recycle.

[DalekSec]

Small concentrated fire

[Chris_Cook]

We found the shredder method quite messy. It did destroy the ribbons though. I'm still picking bits up from years ago.

[maxkops]

Shredder successfully managed kept all output in plastic bag so mess minimal.

Cleaned the rotating jaws carefully afterwards as much placcy binding in the marsh there.

Some mess created, pity.

Did overheat 3 times, don't think it appreciated my offering.

Took circa 2h total but it gave me an excuse to prejudicially add in some extra shredding for old times sake.

Feel so much better.

 

The hacksaw tape method sounds fun.

Will incorporate into my next morning exercise routine.