Cleaning a screen - use spray polish or microfibre?

[Bruce Mckown]

Surely paper can be made from 'rag' base as well as 'wood' base can't
it? In fact aren't the very best papers made from rag?

Yes. But it's called cotton and not rag.

 

[Alistair Hutchison]

Tape the monitor to the roof of your car, and then take it through the
carwash. simple.
(best to let it dry out before switching it on again though)
seriously though, i swear by windowlene for screen cleaning.

<Al>

 

[David Maynard]

<pedantic mode> Paper (generic) is made from wood pulp.

There are many kinds of 'paper' made from wood pulp. Paper from wood pulp
is cheap and 'non permanent': the vast majority of uses.

If made from
cotton, it is not paper.

False.

http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/dtcottonpaper.html

Buy some here: http://www.buyonlinenow.com/viewproduct.asp?sku=SOUR14CF

 

[David Maynard]

Yes. But it's called cotton and not rag.

Well, many people do, but not accurately.

The highest grade of 'cotton paper' is cotton rag made from fine fabric
grade fibers, which are long and strong. The second grade is cotton linter,
which are left over from the ginning process (meaning not good enough for
fabric) and found near the seed.

At one time, rag meant cotton taken exclusively from cotton textile
remnants. A few still do it that way, such as Fabriano's Roma paper and
Strathmore's Artist Bristol, but most modern makers of "rag paper" use the
'fabric grade fibers' directly.

The symbol of quality is still a paper that is made from 100 percent cotton
'rags'. That is probably why people prefer to call both cotton linter and
cotton rag papers "rag."

 

[Mac Cool]

Rich Webb:

Note: Be careful if using it on a monitor screen. A film of water that
doesn't run/drip by itself will collect in front of the squeegee blade
into a small puddle that *will* run/drip.

Take a tip from the full serve gas station attendants of yore, wipe the
squeegee blade between swipes and use a cloth to mop up the runoff.

 

[Rob Morley]

Wood pulp is the normal fibre used in normal paper, as I intimated in
the post to which you replied.

You said:
i.e. is short for the Latin "id est", which means "that is". So you
stated that cellulose fibre is the same as wood pulp. I was merely
pointing out that there is a number of sources of cellulose fibre other
than wood pulp.

Try and get some paper made from the fibres you suggest. It will be
quite difficult and very expensive, should you find any.

This is irrelevant to my point although, as I have already mentioned in
this thread, UK banknotes are made of cotton and linen. Many quality
stationers and art shops will stock cotton- and linen-based paper - it's
used for archive material because it's non-acidic (wood pulp is treated
with sulphuric acid in the paper making process). Hemp is used to
improve recycled paper - the fibres break down when paper is re-pulped,
and the longer stronger hemp fibres are added to restore some strength.
Hemp is also used for cigarette papers. Flax is used to make teabags,
cigarette papers and the thin paper used in Bibles. Alternative plant
fibres are increasingly used in paper making - their production and
processing into paper is more environmentally friendly than wood.

 

[Gama Chameleon]

What a shame.

Kerplunk!

"I'm wrong, so you are killfiled", again.

Starting to form a pattern this

 

[Gama Chameleon]

This is irrelevant to my point although, as I have already mentioned in
this thread, UK banknotes are made of cotton and linen. Many quality
stationers and art shops will stock cotton- and linen-based paper - it's
used for archive material because it's non-acidic (wood pulp is treated
with sulphuric acid in the paper making process). Hemp is used to
improve recycled paper - the fibres break down when paper is re-pulped,
and the longer stronger hemp fibres are added to restore some strength.
Hemp is also used for cigarette papers. Flax is used to make teabags,
cigarette papers and the thin paper used in Bibles. Alternative plant
fibres are increasingly used in paper making - their production and
processing into paper is more environmentally friendly than wood.

Yep spot on.

I guess you are probably going to get kill filed by him now

 

[Fergal]

Sometimes I just have to touch the glass screen of my VDU to work
through some data. Yeah, I know it's not a good way of keeping the
screen clean.

How do you guys keep the screen clean after it has got greasy? I
used to think using a microfiber to life the grease off the screen
was best. All the microfiber advertising suggested it was the very
best.

But now I am coming round to thinking that the old way of using a
spray furniture polish or spray glass cleaner is better than
microfibre.

There are also some proprietary screen cleaner out there (not wipes
but sprays) and I wonder if anyone can say how they compare to the
other methods.

Finally there is general purpose denatured alcohol (methylated
spirits in the UK) but I am not so sure about using this method.

Any suggestions?

I know I'm a bit late coming into this thread, but after all the other
"useful" suggestions from other posters, I'd go the microfibre cloth route.
If you haven't tried these things they are fantastic. Get the ones that look
like facecloths (Aldi - 89p). Just dampen one corner to get the grease etc
off the monitor, then use the dry part. No solvents required, and dust
sticks to these cloths like a magnet, no lint either.

They are also good in the car for wiping condensation off the windows, much
more absorbent than those little chamois pads and don't leave any smears.

 

[Dr Teeth]

You can buy cotton fibre paper, it's the artsy stuff.

Exactly, it is specialist paper not generic/common paper.
--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

 

[Dr Teeth]

False.

See my previous comments about generic/common paper. If one does not
qualify the term, the vast majority of peeps would assume that it is
made from wood pulp.
--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

 

[JAD]

the VAST majority wouldn't have a clue of what your talking about
example could be found on the Jay Leno show..........

 

[David Maynard]

See my previous comments about generic/common paper. If one does not
qualify the term, the vast majority of peeps would assume that it is
made from wood pulp.

The person you are arguing with specifically said cotton paper; not
'generic' paper. To which you said [paper made from] cotton was not 'paper'.

That is incorrect. Paper is, indeed, made from cotton.

And what "the majority of peeps would assume" depends on where the
"majority of peeps" live. In China, only around 10% of the paper is made
from wood pulp.

 

[seabat]

Alcohol works pretty good, but don't use the 70% Isopropoly "rubbing"
type as it has a bunch of oils in it to make it more palatable to the
skin when rubbing it in. Get the 90% > denatured type.

Also, when done cleaning, you can get rid of most of the static
electricity (that which attracts all the dust in the first place) by
rubbing your screen with one of those sheet thingies that they make
for use in dryers to keep your sock from sticking together. NOTE! Make
sure that the one you use is a used one, run through the dryer one or
two times first, otherwise it will make a gooey mess of your screen.

 

[Gama Chameleon]

Dr Teeth wrote:

See my previous comments about generic/common paper. If one does not
qualify the term, the vast majority of peeps would assume that it is
made from wood pulp.

The person you are arguing with specifically said cotton paper; not
'generic' paper. To which you said [paper made from] cotton was not 'paper'.

That is incorrect. Paper is, indeed, made from cotton.

And what "the majority of peeps would assume" depends on where the
"majority of peeps" live. In China, only around 10% of the paper is made
from wood pulp.

You can argue the point with him till the cows come home, but in his
eyes you will always be wrong, and though you are right you 'll get
kill filed for it.

 

[Dr Teeth]

the VAST majority wouldn't have a clue of what your talking about
example could be found on the Jay Leno show..........

You mean YOU don't.
--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

 

[Dr Teeth]

And what "the majority of peeps would assume" depends on where the
"majority of peeps" live. In China, only around 10% of the paper is made
from wood pulp.

Don't be a smart-arsed tit. We live in the UK, plonker.
--
Cheers,

Guy

** Stress - the condition brought about by having to
** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights
** out of someone who richly deserves it.

 

[spodosaurus]

Don't be a smart-arsed tit. We live in the UK, plonker.

No, "we" don't. We live all over the world. Don't tell me the Poms are
getting as bad as the yanks in terms of geocentricity?

--
Cheers,

Guy

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** out of someone who richly deserves it.

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[JAD]

certainly not my expertise.....but then you must be a ...'vender' of
paper.... giving free samples of TP..so people can clean up your BS.
Very little wood by-products in PC hardware.

 

[Rob Morley]

Don't be a smart-arsed tit. We live in the UK, plonker.

Newsflash - there are Usenet users all over the world.
This just in - there are more Chinese than any other nationality.