Vinyl 101: Dealing with Dust in the winter

[brycesteiner]

It's the time of year when there is a lot of static and my latest vinyl roll (LG) has a terrible problem with attracting lint and dust from all the static. After working hard and throwing a lot of vinyl away (and ink) because of specks I came up with this.

I used these lint free cloths that I use for the printing press, cleaning the blanket and rollers. and put them together using double sided tape. I then applied 3M spray glue to the cloths, let it dry and then put it on the back of the printer with packing tape. The 3m spray glue seems to work well to grip stuff and thought it might work to keep the crap off.

I put out two more prints and they both looked good. I don't know if this is a good fix or not. So far it's working.

What do you do?

 

[reQ]

Usually don't have such problem, but been there and done pretty much same thing. Looks funny but gets the job done!

 

[kheebl]

Hey whatever works right.

 

[player]

What about using anti--static dryer sheets plus Swiffer dust cloths? I think the Swiffer cloths are the floor sweeper replacement cloths. They really pick up dust.

 

[Gino]

Wouldn't it be more beneficial to add humidity to the room, heck, even for your own noses ??

 

[LeLuni]

Along those lines, does anyone have experience with anti-static air guns?

Do they actually work?

 

[brycesteiner]

Wouldn't it be more beneficial to add humidity to the room, heck, even for your own noses ??

I was wondering if that would help or if it was just my media.

Would adding the antistatic leaf metal (christmas garland?) help and grounding it?

 

[Gino]

Sure, of course you can do that..... along with all the other homemade remedies. It's just like the pharmaceutical world. All these crazy drugs and symptom relievers only treat the symptoms, they don't adress the actual problem.

You Need to get rid of the static, not allow it to continue. Go to the source, take care of it and you'll find yourself a much happier camper.