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Goose

Goose

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This summer, my wife had the misfortune of running a ball point pen through the washer and dryer with a load of clothes, with predictable results. And the clothes that were involved did not include any of mine, so I'm blameless. And I have an unbreakable habit of emptying all pockets any time I take clothes off, even if I'm going to put them back on in a few minutes.

None of the other clothes really mattered, but the load included a red and white Nascar Talledega winter coat. We'd bought a matched pair in the gift shop at the track at Talladega one summer day when it was about 100 degrees. The coat obviously ended up with blue ink spots, which are probably baked in from the dryer. I haven't asked any professionals yet if the coat can be saved, but I wondered if any of ya'll had run into the same thing.
 
I have done a lot of things with stains over the years and yep once dried it makes the stains harder to get out.

Things to try is some of that good old hand soap made to remove grease etc. Or Shampoo yep shampoo works some times or some dish soap. Rub in any or all of that and then let ti sit a while and maybe rub some more in then wash but do not dry unless the stains are all gone. If not gone try again it may take a few runs to get it all
 
Got any home made lye soap? Rub it wet on the stains & let it set a while & repeat before washing. & follow Old's advise.
 
Run it through once more with another pen and call it your red white and blue coat...... . Ben
 
Worst part is the dryer. Depending on what it is, the garment and the ink, soaking and washing, I would think there is a way to get it clean. Ball point pen should not be permanent ink. I've been through similar, either washed something new with a lighter colored garment, noticed the dye wash through on the lighter colored garment, BEFORE putting in the dryer. Most if not all were cleaned by soaking further and applying a variety of methods to clean, stain remover, mild application of/mix of bleach and detergent. That ink has to be easier to deal with than grease, oil or similar staining. Figure out what material it is, how to protect or not bleach its colors etc. Do some research on the net, you'll come up with something or so I would think.
 
I asked my wife, she said "hair spray". She says hair spray will bleed it out, might have to spray and wash more than once.
 
I worked at a printing shop years ago.
Getting ready to leave one day I realized I had forgot to turn off the lights so I tossed my jacket on a bench and went to go turn them off.
Picked up the light colored jacket only to discover the bench had wet ink all over it.
Figured it was going to be garbage anyways I poured a quart of solvent on it and scrubbed it against itself then covered the stained area with hand cleaner, threw it in the back of the truck and forgot about it for a week.
Rinsed it down with a garden hose and ran it through the washing machine so I could use it for a work jacket.
It came out of the washer 100 % spotless.

Your mileage may vary but it can be done.
 
Nice to meet a fellow printer. I worked as a printer for five years after I left the Marine Corps. Letterpress and offset, both. We had a cantankerous old web letterpress we printed the local newspaper on. I went on to work for ten years in Customer Service in a huge plant with eight six unit web offsets. That plant printed mostly national newsstand and trade magazines. Those presses would fly. Once on a simple one color job, they had one cranked up to what figured out to 600,000 impressions per hour although web speed on them was measured in feet per minute instead of impressions per hour. They could change paper rolls on the fly without even slowing down.

I always thought it would be fun to own a small one man print shop when I retired, but I got into politics instead. Color printers have taken over most of the small jobs, anyway, so most of the small job shops have fallen by the wayside.
 
We used to co-own a laundromat. We had customers that did the same thing or worse and I always told the customer it makes no difference what you did I can get that stain out. They asked me how I was so sure I could get it out. I reached under the counter and brought up a pair of scissors and told them these will get any stain out. LOL
 
hey goose ,.ever heard the expression in your political life , "never argue with someone that buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton ,"
 
(quoted from post at 14:38:37 09/04/16) Nice to meet a fellow printer. I worked as a printer for five years after I left the Marine Corps. Letterpress and offset, both. We had a cantankerous old web letterpress we printed the local newspaper on. I went on to work for ten years in Customer Service in a huge plant with eight six unit web offsets. That plant printed mostly national newsstand and trade magazines. Those presses would fly. Once on a simple one color job, they had one cranked up to what figured out to 600,000 impressions per hour although web speed on them was measured in feet per minute instead of impressions per hour. They could change paper rolls on the fly without even slowing down.

I always thought it would be fun to own a small one man print shop when I retired, but I got into politics instead. Color printers have taken over most of the small jobs, anyway, so most of the small job shops have fallen by the wayside.
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Hi Goose
I was in a sheet fed shop for 8 years, mostly Heidelberg's.
1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 color presses 28 and 40 inch machines did a lot of high end work annual reports, artwork, prints, posters etc,
If we got wound up to 12 000 sheets per hour we were flying.
From the day I started we were putting in 75-80 hour weeks, made lots of money but had no life.
The day the 2 color started up on its own while I was cleaning the plate gap was the day I walked away from the trade, I heard the click of the contactor and pulled my arm back just in time as it tore the wrench out of my hand in the process.
All safety's and stop bars were engaged at the time, the Heidelberg technician figured a contact had welded itself and when my arm wiggled the safety bar it set things back in motion.
Regardless it was the day I walked out the door for the last time.
 
(quoted from post at 09:36:05 09/04/16) This summer, my wife had the misfortune of running a ball point pen through the washer and dryer with a load of clothes, with predictable results. And the clothes that were involved did not include any of mine, so I'm blameless. And I have an unbreakable habit of emptying all pockets any time I take clothes off, even if I'm going to put them back on in a few minutes.

None of the other clothes really mattered, but the load included a red and white Nascar Talledega winter coat. We'd bought a matched pair in the gift shop at the track at Talladega one summer day when it was about 100 degrees. The coat obviously ended up with blue ink spots, which are probably baked in from the dryer. I haven't asked any professionals yet if the coat can be saved, but I wondered if any of ya'll had run into the same thing.
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If you find any guy on here who's an expert in laundry they need to turn in their man cards NOW! :lol: :lol:

Rick
 
Your best bet would be to take the garment to the cleaners. As far as the washer and dryer denatured alcohol is the solvent for ink. It would probably be a good idea to wash the inside out with a rag dripping wet with alcohol and see if you can get any remaining ink out.
 

It's like the automotive repair shop. "try to fix it yourself before you bring it to us....we want it screwed up real good." It needs a very strong solvent, not just what you may have around the house.
 
I haven't tried it on clothing, but Spot Shot Carpet Cleaner in the aerosol can has taken all kinds of stains out of my carpets and upholstery. Use at your own risk!
 
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