CLI-42 cleaning fluid

Stuart21

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I would guess you guys are all talking about for water based inks. What about e.g solvents for cleaning ecosolvent ink printheads?

TIA from Thailand.
 

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Windex isn't cheap???? Even without going the generic route, such as grocery store brand, a quart or so in a spray bottle of the real deal is less than $4 here. That should clean a few dozen print heads, no? If it was $10 equivalent in the UK, that's a few shillings per head, no?

turbguy's excellent description of the chemistry of Windex has one error. Ammonia is technically not a surfactant, although changing water's pH via ammonium hydroxide only effects changes similar to a surfactant. Yeah, I'm picking a nit.

That's why some ammonia choices are "sudsing." They add genuine surfactant.
 
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