Have been trying this out over the last two days. Discs are not ready yet - they are cooking in shaving cream atm - so don't have final results, but heres what I experienced so far:
Everything I did was on Opto or Champion plastic.
Tried the black - no intensifier. The first disc, red seethrough was as good as could be expected I would say. The next one, seethrough green/yellow, did not seem to take, but I assumed it was the temperature.
So continued it tonight and mixed up another batch using the intensifier and dumped it in again. Big mistake. The intensifier resulted in the color being extremely gooish on the disc. And sticky. As in VERY. Like Dan had described it, only worse. Seemed to result in a dull matte layer on top of the disc.
Extremely annoying and timeconsuming to get rid of. I could not go crazy on it as some vinyl had to stay on for some more coloring (hence the shaving cream.). So we will see when they come out.
It might be the result of me mixing the dye and intensifier in while the water was heated up - and not at the beginning and then heated up like the instruction says.
But I can't say until I try that out with another batch some day.
I tried a third, second in dye+intensifier - and it did not seem as bad - but still annoying to deal with - and def not giving the black I saw from Dan. When I emptied out the pan it seem liked something was clumped up in small balls (3-4 pinheads sizewise). Same thing was all over the discs when picked up. Did not see anything like it in the red that I had dissolving at the same time (with intensifier) - not heated up yet, though.
So it might very well be the order of me doing things that messed it up big time.
So, a lot of variables in this - be careful about the intensifier. At least dump it in first and then heat up like the instructions say.
Will post pictures tomorrow or weekend at the latest.
Oh - and with the intensifier it seemed to dig in to the cut lines and dye very thin lines. Could be the fact that I had them in and out a few times to deal with/check on the goo thing. But I did not see it when I did not use the intensifier. So be on the lookout for that. Again: Could just be me