Printer cleaning?

[bayshorecreations]

Whats good for cleaning the outside of a printer? Like when you have ink fingerprints that dried up etc.
Anyone have any good suggestions?
Thanks

 

[J Hill Designs]

acetone would prob work...might check an inconspicuous place to see if it attacks the plastic or not i guess

 

[SignosaurusRex]

acetone would prob work...might check an inconspicuous place to see if it attacks the plastic or not i guess

 

[J Hill Designs]

yup acetone mildly eats the plastic...might try denatured alcohol?

 

[mark in tx]

I think of those ink drops as battle scars.

 

[J Hill Designs]

and the finger prints mean "place finger here"

 

[randya]

Try Simple Green first, with a little elbow grease.

Denatured Alcohol if that doesnt work.

 

[Gordy Saunders]

I just use the same cleaning solution that I use to clean my heads.

 

[dasnootz]

I've used rubbing alcohol.

 

[bayshorecreations]

Tried rubbing alcohol but did not work, tried simple green without much luck either. I will try some other things and see what happens.
Thanks everyone!

 

[gabagoo]

the cleaning solution works best for me. alcohol does not seem to work well if the ink has been there for some time

 

[InkjetAuction]

Green Acetone

My secret cleaner is BioSolv
http://www.greenacetone.com/

You can buy it at West Marine for $18.99 / qt

At full strength it will clean ink from any surface, but will attack plastics. Cut 50% (with water) it still easily wipes away ink, but doesn't seem to attack the plastics/vinyls nearly as much.

Tested on a gloss banner printed w/ECO-SOL MAX ink, a cloth soaked with full strength BioSolv easily cleared the ink, but damaged the gloss finish--leaving it dull. Testing with the 50% water/ 50% biosolv solution I found that the ink still came off without damaging too much of the banner's gloss finish.

I see the insides (and outsides) of 5-10 different printers each week, and this stuff hasn't failed me yet. I use a 40/60 (40% biosolv) solution for the outsides-- I vary the strength as I need it.

...as always, your mileage will vary...

~E

 

[Williams Signs]

Rapid Prep works wonders

 

[Rooster]

I just use the same solvent I use to clean the print head with.

It's the same solvent in the ink. Comes right off.

 

[Stealth Ryder]

Simple Green and Denatured Alcolhol...