I messed up my prints, how to restore them?

Hey,

So one day I decided to sort out the prints from my film cameras, I got rid of the poor ones, dated and added names with short descriptions on the backs of the keepers.

Having finished all of that, to my horror I realised that the ink had transferred from the back of the photos to the photos underneath, badly staining majority of them.

Having done a bit of Googling, and found out that white spirit removes ink from photos, and it did work rather well indeed. I left them to dry and stacked into one pile a bit later to continue when I had more time.

Now I came back to them, and all the prints are stuck together. The ink transfer has become worse, as I assume white spirit diluted the ink further. Basically an utter mess and the prints are no good now.

We are talking about 100 odd prints here, and I have negatives for all of them. However I believe reprinting random negatives will prove too costly. Thus before going down that road, I was wondering if anyone has any better ideas?

Digitalisation? Good, cheap print house? Scanning the prints and PS? Automagical apps?

I have tried using bellows and a scanner before, but couldn't figure out the colours even after spending hours futzing with it. So not sure that's the route, but willing to try.

Thank you in advance

I have come across this link which might help http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2011/07/how-to-scan-negatives-using-standard-scanne...

I appreciate that it is a bit late now, but if you want to put identifying detail onto the back of prints, a soft pencil e.g. 6B is probably the safest as the graphite won't bleed. Good luck

Thank you for the pencil idea, will use that in the future.

Currently thinking that will probably have to either reprint in local store or scan them