blue ballpoint on cotton

[DuboisLaundry]

one of my favorite customers used a dryer right after someone dried a blue ballpoint pen (that's what it looks like anyhow) and stained most of her cotton and cotton blends. I have Aquanet Hairspray but am open to other suggestions. I might try Lestoil on some of it too.

If she wasn't one of my favorites and hadn't helped me get oriented when I first moved here I would just copy one of my "not reponsible... signs" but I wanna try and do what I can for her.

[TotoMongo]

From what I have read the aquanet (or rubbing alcohol) is the best thing. Heres a google search

www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ink+stains

[kbc747]

Go to a local printer supplier and get some Warn V120 Blanket Wash. In the print industry we use this to clean ink off our presses, folders etc. Any ink no matter how old will come off or out with this stuff. You will need to rewash a couple of time once to get it out, once to deorderize a bit. Make sure you test for color fastness though this should not be a problem.

[laschmove]

You know those guys that go door to door selling the super concentrated citrus cleaner? We buy a case a year to use around the mat and have found that it'll take out ink too.

[DuboisLaundry]

thanks for the tips
we dont have door to door super citrus saleskids here, but I think I saw something like it at the hardware store. I think the nearest printer supply place is in Denver so I'll look for the Warn printing press cleaner next month when I visit Colorado. I doubt anyone in Wyoming has it.
(there are drawbacks to living in a state with barely 1/2 million people)

meanwhile I'll get a few more cans aquanet at the local grocery

[Kitty]

Best thing I have used was TAR-GO and Motsenbachs

TAR_GO can be purchased from your soap distrib and Motsenbachs can be googled and bought on line. I bought this from my carpet cleaner...took paint out of my capet when my kids spilt several large puddles one day.....

http://www.coinwash.com/mb/showthread.php?t=3990&highlight=targo

http://www.coinwash.com/mb/showthread.php?t=1010&highlight=targo

[Ken]

I had drycleraner,deal with ink all the time.
Drycleaning supplier sell suff the clean it then put in washer or dryclean machine,I forget the name,ink go or somthing like that.
I have bad news for you,most stuff remove ink will remove color on cotton clothes,so unless those are white only,your customer is out of luck.

[CharlieS]

Tar-go took a huge ink blot out of a silk shirt of mine that I was ready to write off. It took a while but every bit came out. It takes a lot of wetting and blotting.

Charlie

[srhaz]

I had a ball point pen 'explode' in a dryer. I used a solution called Eliminink. It is designed to get ink out of clothes. It seemed to turn the ink into a sudsy soap mixture. It takes several applications and some rubbing for thick ink. I would not do a hairspray thing as it thins the ink and spreads it. I would rub in petroleum jelly first and let that disolve it.