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How Document Drying Saved An Important Document Like Diploma
It can happen so fast that you won't have the time to react.
Imagine this - you sat with your parents a week after graduation to show them your diploma. You were really excited! After all, you had worked hard to finish your degree and at last all your efforts had paid off. It was time for a celebration. Unfortunately in your excitement, you knocked over your water glass. Splash! Within seconds, the whole paper was soaked.
Is there a way to save your diploma? Yes! Thank goodness for document drying. While you know you could get a new copy, this one is kind of special. You are already emotionally attached to it. Besides, how embarrassing would it be to ask the school's registrar's office to issue you a new one when this one is still hot off the press?
Yes, you can still save this diploma. Document drying is done all the time. All you need is a few thought out techniques to get the water out of the paper without damaging the ink and paper.
One way is to freeze it. Freezing paper is a widely-accepted way to save a water-damaged document. Freezing has been used by companies that specialize in document drying for years. They even buy these specialized equipments that can freeze at lower temperatures than the typical freezers found in homes.
The science of freezing as a document drying technique works like this - water solidifies at low temperatures. If water no longer moves in the paper, it will no longer affect the document. Freezing will help prevent those little ink sludge common in water-damaged documents. Once frozen, you can now take the water out in the simplest and fastest way possible.
You have to be extra careful though. While freezing can stop water from flowing, not all paper materials are friendly to being frozen. If what you want to subject to document drying is fragile, then freezing might cause more damage.
Water expands when frozen and if water has made it in between the strands of paper, it might break the paper. As a rule, if you can let your document drip as much as you can before you freeze, then do so. And if you are not sure, call one of those water damage experts and ask for their opinion. It wouldn't hurt to benefit from their long experience with document drying.
One more advice has a lot to do with maintaining the flatness of your diploma during the document drying process. A common problem when water has gotten into paper is that it curls up on the edges. Most books that had been soaked and dried have that rumpled edge look. And not just the edges but certain parts of the paper tend to curl up too, the way your finger looks after a long bath.
Well, there is a simple remedy for that. Freeze your document in a box big enough to accommodate the paper as it lays flat. Cover it with wax paper before you weigh down the edges. That should prevent those scrolls from forming when you do unfreeze and dry it.
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