Digital BW, The Print

Double distilled water is a deionized water that has been ran thru a closed distilling process twice.. As far as where to get it .. I think a good drug store / pharmacist should be able to get it for you.. No clue the cost or quantity requirement.. 
I would doubt very much that anyone uses it to manufacture inks.. ie Epson etc.. Jon could bring value easily to that part of it I would think. 

Lastly...SG  (Simple Green) makes more products then what we know as Simple Green.. I buy the Simple Green concentrate from Costco by the gallon.. I also have a gallon of Extreme Simple Green Aircraft and precision Cleaner that I got thru Grainger's , Home Depot carries it too I think. I learned about that stuff from a Canon / Epson service tech in Salt Lake.. I have a 7600 I ran dye sub inks in to run images on tile.. I wasn't getting much business in 09 due to the economic slow down.. I figured I'd have to pitch the printer.. That stuff cleaned it out.. Regular simple green leaves sort of a film which is not a big deal as you chase it with something the aircraft version of the stuff doesn't leave a film.. 

jimbo


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Roark 
  To: DigitalB&WPrint 
  Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:25 PM
  Subject: Re: De-ionized water (was Re: [Digital BW] What did I do to my 3800?)


    

  A chemist once recommended we use only "double distilled" water for our ink mixes.  I'm not even sure where one buys that -- not at the local supermarket, I'm guessing.


  Paul
  www.PaulRoark.com 



  On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Dana Myers <dana.myers@...> wrote:

      

    On 4/17/2014 6:13 PM, donsbryant@... wrote:

        
      Arthur Entlich has a manual for cleaning clogged
      printer ink problems. He used to send out a lengthy document by e-mail. His e-mail used to be e-printerhelp(@)mvps(.)org




      FWIW, I don't think distilled water is healthy for your print head.



    More on this topic: not all "purified" water is created equal. I've seen steam-distilled
    water and de-ionized water for sale as "purified" water, as well as purified drinking
    water (usually de-ionized, with minerals added for flavor). You have to look on the
    label to find out what you're getting.

    Be careful with DI water; it is quite corrosive to many metals. Back in my youth,
    I spent a summer working at an electronic assembly shop where PCB assemblies
    were water-washed after wave-soldering to remove the (water-soluble) flux, and
    finished with literally a dip in a DI water bath. One day, 10 or 15 boards were left
    soaking in the DI water by accident during lunch; an hour later, the tin-plating
    on the copper traces had been substantially removed by the DI water, leaving
    most of the copper exposed.

    Distilled water may not be healthy for a print head; DI water is certainly harmful.

    Cheers,
    Dana








  
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