Re: [LIB] Screen cleaning and AR films
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 22:03:35 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Screen cleaning and AR films Here's what I do to clean spotty LCD screens. 1) Rubbing alcohol and lint-free tissue. Wipe and go. Forget about the streaks for now; just concentrate on getting the spots off. Should take off just about everything. 2) Now, second pass. Not as damp with alcohol, but just partially. Wipe in circles and passes to get rid of as many streaks as possible. Circular pattern helps eliminate leaving more. 3) Quickly follow up with the 3M Scotchbrite High Performance Cleaning Cloth available at KMart and elsewhere (in the kitchen supplies section of Kmart) or a microfibre lens cleaning cloth (sunglasses, eyeglasses stores). You'll have to make numerous passes to gently, gently eliminate the streaks, but they'll go with time. wipe with a barely alcohol or wet cloth if needed just before making another pass to get off stubborn streaks. 4) oNCE THE streaks are gone, you're at the stage where you're trying to get the LCD 100% dust and mark free. Should be decently easy if you have a clean cleaning cloth in hand, and for me, didn't take that long at all. At this point, anything that does land on it between this and applying the film can almost always be blown off, or simply brushed off if you simply gently brush the cloth over the LCD panel to sweep the dust off. 5) Naturally, Once you're ready to apply the film, it should go quickly before more dust lands. You'll want to brush clean both protective films on the main film itself to get rid of dust that can fall onto the LCD panel during positioning. You can try out various positions first just by laying the film on the panel unpeeled, then when you've got the right position in mind, peel off a short edge of the protective film on the stick side, and position that end on the LCD panel. Pull about 1-2 off and press the AR film on the panel to keep it in place. Pull more protective film off the sticky side and keep going, pressing down on the AR film as you go to keep it in place and MOST IMPORTANTLY to keep the air bubbles out. Press from center out to get those air bubbles out. Read my prior most on specifics of this. Once it's all in place, rub down everywhere with at least two protective sheets of plastic between your fingernail back and the main AR film to prevent scratches on it, and after a lot of this, it'll look decent. d =) = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] Screen cleaning and AR films
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:52:57 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Screen cleaning and AR films Hi all! I've just got a sample of that Optiview antireflective film (antireflective is probably NOT a good term for it though, more 'smartreflective', the idea being that its mirror-like surface reduces the 'unviewable' angle when there's a lot of light around and even when it is at the angle of maximum stray light reflection, the diffraction film on the surface means that in many cases the screen is still readable albeit with a very strong 'optical purple' cast you often see on camera lenses and the like) ... applied a small sample to the screen and the difference is incredible, even without a lot of light around. I never noticed this before but in comfortable viewing light, the original slightly rough surface actually scatters and separates out the light slightly so on, say, a 50% gray area you can normally see little colored dots, smaller than the actual pixels (tiny, no more obvious than on a good quality inkjet printer, I guess you could say it looks a bit like looking through very slightly dusty or frosty glass) but with that film on there filling in the 'roughness', the color is nice and smooth and the pixels are sharp, a bit like a glossy photograph (but with a lot less reflection and better saturation). Of course, with a lot of light around (eg. with a desklamp right on the screen) the difference is between hardly readable and comfortably readable. Anyway, enough singing of the praises of this film, I've got a bit of a question for anyone who may know ... before I apply the rest of the film, I've got to clean this screen. Which is a problem because I've not cleaned this screen for months (I used to clean it every time it got dirty but I found myself cleaning it 2-3 times a day which started annoying me). As a result, it has all sorts of marks on it, not all of which seem to want to come out with a good polish with a lint-free optical cleaning cloth. Can anyone recommend what would be good to use to clean this screen without risking eating into the surface? Cheers! - Raymond P.S. I've got a few photos showing the samples of film on the screen in situations where it seems to make an awful lot of difference, anyone sitting on the fence regarding getting the film and want to have a peek at them? -- /~\ | | Does fuzzy logic tickle?| | ___ | My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup? | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
