Getting toner out of clothes

[nhyrum]

How do you guys get toner out of your clothes? It's inevitable that we'll get toner all over, especially when changing dev units out such. My work pants are khaki and I have a variety of light colored shirts. I know washing with hot water is a no go.

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[NeoMatrix]

Re: Getting toner out of clothes

How do you guys get toner out of your clothes? It's inevitable that we'll get toner all over, especially when changing dev units out such. My work pants are khaki and I have a variety of light colored shirts. I know washing with hot water is a no go.

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If the toner stain just happened, then a good old vacuum cleaner works for the most part, wash the rest of the stain out in cold water. Make sure the nozzle on the end of the vacuum cleaner is free of dirt and grim, otherwise you will have an additional stain to remove.

Obviously try to avoid light coloured clothing, provided work place uniform policy permits. I have a preference to Nylon or Polyester textured fabrics.
The polymer base fabics can make you sweat during the summer months thought , especially here in the tropics.

If it's a liquid Ink stain...? Well that's another ball game...

[subaro]

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The only way i know that works is to blow it off with compress air. I work in a shop environment and it gets on pants, shirt ect. use the compressor air to blow it off and it disappear. wiping is no good, even with the yellow cloth, as it takes off the surface only. you can try can air and see if that works.

[nhyrum]

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Yeah I've noticed that canned air does good. Our shop doesn't have a compressor system yet as its rental property and the landlord... Well sucks

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[JrTech]

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Toner rags and a dust buster or small vac work perfect. I am in the same boat as you are and it always seems that when I wear khaki is the day I have a messy day ahead. I can wear dark for a week straight and not a a single "messy" call and the day I decide to go khaki it happens. I get my toner rags and chemicals online from Stoner. The toner rags are well worth it, I have some that are completely black and still work perfectly.

Hope this helps

[Tonerbomb]

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get toner out of clothes.......Yeah right......................

[subaro]

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get toner out of clothes.......Yeah right......................

I use to vacum, use yellow cloth and only make things worst ,untill a new young hire i was instructing mentioned to use the compressor air which i did not think off.
And you can try it for yourself next time you are in the shop and it works. Off course we not talking about smeared toner that you tried to clean with alcohol, but if it is toner dust it will blow off ,every dust. I do it all the time.

[habik]

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Vac and let the washing machine do the rest! Toner melt point is way above of any washing machine program, so no worries there.

Ink ... Is like tattoo!!


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[NeoMatrix]

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I use to vacum, use yellow cloth and only make things worst ,untill a new young hire i was instructing mentioned to use the compressor air which i did not think off.
And you can try it for yourself next time you are in the shop and it works. Off course we not talking about smeared toner that you tried to clean with alcohol, but if it is toner dust it will blow off ,every dust. I do it all the time.

You should not be blowing toner dust out of your cloths in the customers office.
You might get away with compressed air fumigating the company workshop air conditioner with toner,but you certainly cannot get away with toner contamination in a customers office.

[blackcat4866]

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Wear clothes that are toner colored. That way when you get toner on them noone can tell.

Shades of black, brown, and grey last well. Bright colors like pink, yellow, red, etc, are good for one wearing then in the trash.

Wipe down visible toner with a Stretch-N-Dust. Anything left (especially on a hot sweaty day) you get to keep. =^..^=

[subaro]

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You should not be blowing toner dust out of your cloths in the customers office.
You might get away with compressed air fumigating the company workshop air conditioner with toner,but you certainly cannot get away with toner contamination in a customers office.

Let's be sensible about this. we have a booth for blowing machines that we strip for rebuilding. It has the proper filters ect. Our shop is entirely separated from the office section. It is a class operation. We don't do much rebulding anymore, nevertheless the, compressor and booths are there.
If one is getting loads of toner on his clothes, then he has to adjust. The spots on your clothes can be blown off when you get to your car or stop in a discreet place with a can of air. But i like blackcat suggestions for on the road techs.

[NeoMatrix]

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I wittness a senior technician virtually close to tears. He or his wife bought him a brand new long sleeve shirt and he wore it first time that day to work. He was working on a TEC register which had a small ink pad in the logo-stamp. He was squeezing the bottle hard trying to re-ink the logo pad when the ink bottle exploded down the front of his new shirt.
He look over to me in horror at his new $60-70 shirt, and said how the !#% do I get this ink out of my new shirt? The missus is going to kill me....
Being a young upstart at the time I was secretly snickering inside to myself.

I told him how to remove mineral base ink from his cloths. He was very very humble that I should know that. I never told him that family members use to manage a dry cleaning shop.

Back in the day I should have charged him for the privilege of my services....

[blackcat4866]

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Back in the days of white dress shirts and wide ties, I was in a 5 day class. I had a fuser apart and had conveniently tucked the heat roller under my arm. The lovely black grease that they use on the bearings made a very nice decoration on my armpit.

I grabbed my bottle of trichlorethylene and a toothbrush and headed to the bathroom. You can probably confirm this Neo, but I'm pretty sure that's dry cleaning fluid. I wore a slightly wet but perfectly clean shirt for the rest of the afternoon.

[subaro]

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I think most techs knows and uses these stretch and wipe cloths for toner and dust. For minor spills and toner inside of the machine i prefer to use these to mop up most of the toner and finish off with the vacum. In this way, less noise from the vacum and less toner particles in the air, plus your vac filter last longer.
These cloths are amazing, and i reuse them by vacuming them at the shop central vac, or for road techs you can dispose. But they are a must have IMO for road techs. Before changing parts ect, i use them do a quick wipe down and therefore less dirt to tangle with.

[Iowatech]

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When you wash your clothes, use the cold water setting on the washer, it will prevent toner from adhering to them (if you have successfully avoided trying to brush the toner off - toner is both heat and pressure activated). Pretreating the spots helps too.
Long sleeved shirts are to be avoided if possible. It's usually way easier to wash toner off of your skin than your clothes. (Also, like a necktie, long sleeves can get caught in moving parts.)
For what it is worth, there are only three rules that I have for work clothing: they are either dark colored, durable or cheap. Currently I am using rule one and three.
Heh, I hadn't thought of trichlorethylene in years. I never tried to use it to clean spots out of clothes. Oh well, too late now.
I've used WD40 and alcohol to get Riso ink out of clothes with some success, but those wouldn't work even a little bit with toner.