Cleaning microfiche?

On 8/8/06, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: A great deal will depend on the type of fiche. If they're originals, you can use a soft cloth (such as diaper flannel or jersey t-shirt material) and isopranol, "tape head cleaner" (used to get it at radio shack), or high-proof isopropyl alcohol. If it's a colored fiche (ie: diazo duplicate), this is NOT what you want to do. Alcohol tends to kill diazo rather handily. Good old water and a very mild soap works great. No scrubbing for either, as you'll tear the emulsion. Just gently work it with the soft cloth. One you've got it cleaned up, you can rinse it with clean water (distilled), blot the excess, and let it air-dry, or use a hair dryer set on "cool/no heat." I deal with this type of damage on occassion. One of the perks of working for a microfilm shop. --Shaun -- "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." -- Winnie The Pooh http://www.lungs4amber.org