[Ti] Cleaning ink off screen?

[Peter Krug]

>No!  Alcohol = bad!
>You should only clean your screen with water, or if you really want 
>to, some commercial product that contains no alcohol or ammonia. 
>See the Apple article below.  I believe that Alcohol can wear off 
>the coating on the screen (you might not notice this happening), 
>discolor it, and damage the plastics in the screen and the case 
>materials too.  See the article linked below for Apple's official 
>statement...

Well okay, but there are many products that contain alcohol that are 
designed for laptop computer screens - I'm looking at a product from 
Fellowes Computerware - It is called "Screen Cleaner" and "cleans 
glass, plastic and polarizing filters, including notebook computer 
screens".  It also says "caution: Fellowes Screen Cleaner contains 
ethanol and butyl cellusolve".  It smells somewhat like a cross 
between suntan lotion and ethanol, kinda like that "Malibu" alcoholic 
beverage.

We clean alot of screens with this stuff (not Malibu) - about 20 
laptops x 4 years - and haven't seen any problems.  Maybe when we are 
finished with it (we bought a few cases a while back), we'll switch 
to something that is not alcohol based.

>And nothing is going to help with that stuck pixel; it's certainly a 
>transistor that is broken (can never be turned on, so the pixel 
>can't be darkened).  And, unless you plan on trying to do some 
>microscopic laser surgery to implant a new transistor in the middle 
>of your screen (HA!), there's not much you can do.  Oh, and don't 
>forget that you have to hook that transistor up to a wire running 
>vertically, a wire running horizontally, and a capacitor or two, all 
>embedded right in the middle of your screen (and yes, you're looking 
>right through a few hundred thousand or million of them as you read 
>my message).
>

Sorry you took me so seriously - I was joking.  I know what a stuck 
pixel is - I've massaged many of them in my day.

Peter
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