Any luck getting permanent marker off of game art work?

dr.robbiedr.robbie
in Help Wanted!
Alright, trying to see if anyone has some good ideas for this one. I got a lot of about 100 PS2 games in today. All of them are in amazing shape and I was thrilled. That was until I realized that the kid had blacked out the PS logo on the spine of nearly every game. Apparently he really liked the black uniform look of the games on his shelf. About half of these are going into my collection and was wondering if anyone has a good tip for trying to clean these up. I'm going to try rubbing alcohol, but about 90% sure it will fade the art as well. Any other suggestions? The artwork is somewhat glossy on PS2 games, so hopefully that will give me more wiggly room.

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  • LincolnLincoln
    You could try going over the spot with a dry erase marker and wiping it off before it sets. Not sure how effective that is against permanent marker, but I'd try that before alcohol.
  • weekendroadyweekendroady
    Just write over it with a washable non-permanent dry-erase marker, it bonds with the old permanent ink and it should be easy to wipe off most of it from there...



    Edit: Lincoln beat me to it...
  • tsx222tsx222
    Goo Gone! Careful not to let it sit on any printed area too long. Wipe within 10 seconds or so and continue until it comes off.
  • dr.robbiedr.robbie
    Update. Tested it out on two of the crappier titles.

    Rubbing alcohol didn't work. Just ended up barely showing some of the logo before you could tell it was fading.

    Goo Gone didn't work either. Some of the PS logo came back, but the white square wasn't coming up at all. Could also see fading developing.



    I'll have to look for a dry erase marker and give that one a whirl. Thanks for the suggestions guys.
  • NickTLGNickTLG
    Dry Erase marker method's definitely the best on artwork. It even works on N64 cart labels.
  • Nes FreakNes Freak
    dry erase it.
  • shortstop444shortstop444
    Using Goo Gone and rubbing with my finger works great.
  • dr.robbiedr.robbie
    meh, nothing worked really. dry erase marker did about the same as the other two. seems like no matter what i do the white part of the PS logo wont come back. Even before it has a chance, the rest of the logo starts to fade. I think these are just going to go into the "upgrade at a later point" part of the collect. It's a shame as these were are incredibly well taken care of aside from the blacking out of the logo.
  • andreja6andreja6
    Jeez, that's a horrid way to take care of games. That's like someone taking care of Nintendo world championships, but blacking out Nintendo because it was too red...

    Is the sharpie on the actual cover, on on the plastic protector whatever the hell that's called... You could try a regular eraser if its on paper, nothing else, liquids would damage paper logos. If its the plastic, then try Dry erase marker and Erase, but you tried that already haven't you... Maybe you can do windex...



    http://www.ehow.com/how_7610671_remove-permanent-marker-paper.html
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