Removing Ink Stains From Carpet

RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Jaymie (Guest Post) For those who used oxy clean and rubbing alcohol, how did you use it? mixed together or one after another? Thanks! Posted on 02/22/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Lisa (Guest Post) Another product that works great on stains is Folex; this is a spray and you can find it at Walmart and Lowe's; it is sold in quart and gallon size containers.It has been on the market for over 35 years. I have used it to remove pet vomit (especially hard to remove if the yellow bile in the vomit has set in the carpet), pet urine and other stains. I used Folex first when my dog chewed up a pen that had purple dye in the ink and it got on the carpet; then I followed up with the Oxy-Clean powder and rubbing alcohol paste and using a toothbrush,I gently rubbed the stain until it went away! Great results! Posted on 02/15/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Shannon (Guest Post) OxyClean and Alocohol worked wonders! Thank you, thank you! My son has a medicine that is rubbed on, but leaves a purple ink dye. On the changing table, he kicked the bottle and we had a HUGE purple stain in the beige carpet. After 20 minutes with the mixture, I got it up. I don't think my husband will even spot it. Not even our warranty carpet cleaner was able to get it out! Posted on 02/07/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By leota (Guest Post) I keep trying the alcohol on my carpet but so far it's not working. Our beagle got carried away with a dark blue pen on our cream white carpet. Help! Posted on 01/20/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Mary (Guest Post) Puppies and a pen! Black ink. Was pretty upset till I tried the 70% rubbing alcohol and Oxi-powder, but I think the rubbing alcohol was the thing that actually did it! My husband couldn't believe it nor could I! Thank God! Stain is gone! Posted on 12/28/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Patty (Guest Post) OMG! Oxyclean and rubbing alcohol (91%) saved my beige carpet and my relationship with our puppy! I thought I'd NEVER be able to remove the ink stain, but it came out perfect. Thanks for the suggestion. Posted on 12/05/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Kathy (Guest Post) What a lifesafer when printer ink got on light beige carpeting. Can not even see any residue. Thanks Posted on 11/29/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Pat (Guest Post) My granddaughter was drawing on the floor when I noticed it was a permanent black ink marker. It went right through the paper and marked my new beige carpet! I panicked "what do I do?" so I googled and found this site. Thank GOD for it. Did not have pure alcohol but used hair spray and then gin mixed with oxi clean and MAJIC it worked! Thanks a lot Posted on 11/26/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Jason (Guest Post) Alcohol worked great. Thanks every one. Posted on 10/22/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By DaveK (Guest Post) Dog ate Bic ball point pen and got big gobs of ink on beige carpet. Alcohol and hairspray - did not work very well. A product called Amodex worked wonders. Skip that other stuff, it will tend to set the stain. Posted on 10/03/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By (Guest Post) You guys rock! Oxyclean/alcohol solution worked great on purple ink stains on new carpet. Thanks so much! Posted on 09/28/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Lissa (Guest Post) I just tried alcohol to remove black printer ink from my pale blue wall to wall carpet. I had a leaky cartridge about two weeks ago and didn't realize it until several days had gone by. It worked like a charm. I had never heard of it and didn't think I would be able to get th ink out. Thanks! Posted on 09/20/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By rachinc (1) Contact my old "brother Mfc-210C printer" started leaking YELLOW ink (from the bottom of the printer) onto my tan/white carpet!!! and it would not come out for days. maintenance men came up to look at it and told me they 95% sure it wouldn't come out. i was so upset... and i was so worried because i'm leasing this studio, so it doesnt belong to me. so if i couldn't get the stain out, the money would be taken from my security deposit... okay it took a while to get the stein out but i did it. I kind of did some no-no's, but it worked after a WHILE. first i would spray the carpet with Oxy Spray every day and leave a towel over it because the bottle says "spray generously to dampen, holding sprayer 12 inches (30 cm) from the stained area. do not scrub or blot the treated stain. just spray and walk away. allow area to dry. Oxyspray will gradually break down and remove the stain." but it wasn't coming out quick enough... so I did a combination of a few tricks. (all in a matter of minutes...) 1) vinegar and baking soda... then a few minutes later 2) scrubbing the stain with oxyclean powder then a few minutes later.... 3) taking my bleach pen and mixing it with water and leaving it on the stain for a few minutes... then a few minutes later.... 4)scrubbing the carpet with soap and water... then let the towel absorb all the water thats in the carpet. 5)then, spray the carpet with Oxy Spray and let it sit there. the fabric in that area doesnt look as tight and new as the rest of the carpet. you can tell it looks fuzzy and worn. but i dont see yellow any more! it took a while for the stain to go away with just the oxyspray alone. i would recommend steps 1-4 above if you don't mind making your carpet look a little scruffy. just be careful because everyone is going to tell you something different. a lot of people will say, just let the professionals do it... (but you have to pay them something like $150 whether they get the stain out or not....waste of money!) Some people will even tell you, stop putting more chemicals into your carpet, you'll just ruin it.... okay maybe you'll scruff it up a bit, and make the carpet look really fuzzy, but ignore them. because the stuff i used wasnt HARD chemicals necessarily. and i washed it out quickly with water, so its not like a million chemicals were just soaking into my carpet. Posted on 09/19/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Thomas (Guest Post) I tried the solution of oxy and alcohol and did not get very good results. Though I only had 70% alcohol by volume. Does that make a difference? The ink was able to dry as I was away all day before realizing the dog didn't like the shade of carpet as it was. So before I use the alcohol on myself at 90 proof or the oxy on the dog's behind, any other suggestions? Thanks. Posted on 09/12/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Thomas (Guest Post) I tried the solution of oxy and alcohol and did not get very good results. Though I only had 70% alcohol by volume. Does that make a difference? The ink was able to dry as I was away all day before realizing the dog didn't like the shade of carpet as it was. So before I use the alcohol on myself at 90 proof or the oxy on the dog's behind, any other suggestions? Thanks. Posted on 09/11/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Lil Mama (Guest Post) My puppy had chewed an ink pen so I tried the oxy clean with warm water, alcohol and it worked great. It took the stain out of my tan carpet the only problem is theres a big Orange stain were I had been cleaning. Posted on 08/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Brittany (Guest Post) My dog also broke open a blue ink pen on my tan carpet; it didn't look terrible until I tried to get the stain out with spot shot. The entire ink stain surfaced and was bright purple. I tried everything (hairspray, alcohol, vinegar, baking soda) nothing worked. Then I read on this website to try oxi clean with alcohol; I mix about 1/2 scoop oxi clean with really warm water and a couple tablespoon 91% rubbing alcohol, used a toothbrush for scrubbing and the stain went away just like magic. You can't even tell there was ever an ink stain there and it literally took just minutes, I was just thrilled. Posted on 08/07/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Kailey (Guest Post) I was cleaning up my room and found one of those pens that are very inkey. I was already frustrated enough about cleaning my room so i just tossed the pen across the room. Then I heard a BANG and thought "It hit my heater who cares!" Then I happen to look at my arm which was all covered in spots of ink. Then at my bed and carpet which was covered in ink. UH OH! The bed confuter ink did not come out at the time. On the floor my dad, grandma, and me scrubbed it with Oxy-Clean and Rubbing Alcohol. It came out great but still left some. Then we combined the 2 and it worked beautifully! :) Kailey Posted on 07/19/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Kelly (Guest Post) I am so glad I found the information on how to remove ink from your carpet. We have a puppy and he decided he'd rather chew on a blue ink pen rather than the bone he was given. HA. Needless to say I had a terrible mess on my tan carpet. I had an appt. for the professionals to come and get it out, when my painters told me to "google" ink stains. What a life safer. It worked great and I cancelled the appt. with the professionals. 7/2008 Posted on 07/12/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By wrdwrthy (1) Contact Great tip re: alcohol to remove ink stains. Removed majority of the stain, I can still see a little discoloration, but that just may be because I know it was there. Posted on 07/05/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By M. C. (Guest Post) Wow, my pen exploded on the carpet floor and I thought I was doomed! But rubbing alcohol worked so well. Thank you everyone for contributing! Posted on 06/07/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse BLUE INK!! By Steph (Guest Post) My dog was sleeping in my room for the first time. I slept like a baby throughout the the entire night as I did not hear any noise. I thought my dog had been a really good boy until I woke up the next morning. there was dog pee all over the carpet, toilet paper surrounded the room and worst of all my brand new $800.00 mat. There was blue ink all over it! I tried a combination of oxi-clean and alcohol and it worked like magic to the eye! thank again :) Steph :) Posted on 04/24/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Sebastian (Guest Post) Our darling 5 y/o son didn't know what to do with a leaky ball point pen, so he tried dragging it on the brand new family room carpet to "make it go away". Except, none of us saw him and he didn't say anything about it either until the next morning. We woke up to a very large rendition of a really bad copy of modern art (think black thin stripes everywhere with no rhyme or reason as to their direction nor size on a very light beige carpet). Oh yeah, forgot to mention this was "Stainmaster" type stuff.. Guess little 5 year old boys don't read the labels oo these things. =) Anyways, after suffering with our "Little Green Machine" for over an hour, I realized 'there must BE a better way?!?!' At first I seriously started doing the math on my head as to what it would cost to replace it or getting the carpet professionally cleaned...But alas, I was struck with another idea. Enter Google Search and this site! We tried the rubbing alcohol and blotting technique, it worked WONDERS! Additional purchase of cloth diapers and more bottles of alcohol (91% seemed like the right "kind"), the stain is GONE! FOREVER! Woohooo! Many thanks to all who have tried previous techniques and to those who took the time to write their posts! Further validating the Web 2.0 mantra: The power of "We" is much greater than the power of "I". Posted on 04/07/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Rose (Guest Post) My daughter is in her artistic stage and manage to place a design on my light tan carpet with a sharpie black marker. I did not discover the stain until about 3 days later. I thought I had hidden all the writing utensils, but apparently not. I googled and came to this post. I poured the rubbing alcohol on the stain(it was quite large) and waited about 10 secs. I got a piece of cloth and rubbed it hard while pressing down. LO AND BEHOLD after a few minutes of scrubbing the stain was gone! Carpet looked as good as new! Thank you so much!! Posted on 02/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Sandi (Guest Post) I am so glad that I found your tip on the web! I don't have a dog, I'm just lazy and didn't pick up a pen that was on my son's rug when I was vacuuming today - yes, it broke and I had a huge mark on the carpet - all I could think was, if this had been one of the kids! WE just bought new rug for the house, LAST year and there is no way we could have afforded new carpet - the rubbing alcohol WORKED! and it didn't take 45 minutes, only about 15. I'll have to keep going back to check but I went from being very depressed to quite hopeful! Thank you! Posted on 02/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Rose (Guest Post) My daughter is in her artistic stage and manage to place a design on my light tan carpet with a sharpie black marker. I did not discover the stain until about 3 days later. I thought I had hidden all the writing utensils, but apparently not. I googled and came to this post. I poured the rubbing alcohol on the stain(it was quite large) and waited about 10 secs. I got a piece of cloth and rubbed it hard while pressing down. LO AND BEHOLD after a few minutes of scrubbing the stain was gone! Carpet looked as good as new! Thank you so much! Posted on 02/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Rose (Guest Post) My daughter is in her artistic stage and manage to place a design on my light tan carpet with a sharpie black marker. I did not discover the stain until about 3 days later. I thought I had hidden all the writing utensils, but apparently not. I googled and came to this post. I poured the rubbing alcohol on the stain(it was quite large) and waited about 10 secs. I got a piece of cloth and rubbed it hard while pressing down. LO AND BEHOLD after a few minutes of scrubbing the stain was gone! Carpet looked as good as new! Thank you so much! Posted on 02/25/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Jason (Guest Post) I just removed "ink pad ink" from my carpet with a bit of elbow grease and rubbing alcohol. I do have a darker green carpet, but gone from the naked eye nonetheless. Thanks to all! Posted on 02/24/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Ron (Guest Post) I just tried alcohol and a clean white cloth to remove year old printer ink stains from our study carpet and it worked GREAT! Posted on 02/23/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Kristie Tamsevicius (Guest Post) Blue Ink - My dog chewed a pen and I got blue ink on my light beige carpet. I combo of Oxi Clean and Alcohol got it right up. Now today she chewed a green ink pen. This has been WAY worse to clean up. First I dabbed up what I could. Then I tried Oxiclean, Alcohol, Resolve foam cleaner, Ammonia, Vinegar. I will let you know if something works. This green ink is the WORST to clean up. Man does it stain. I'll let you know if something works. Posted on 02/15/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By (Guest Post) I had problem with my printer ink and it got all over the carpet. I tried the alcohol and it worked like magic! I got nervous at first because the first time I blotted the black ink on the carpet turned blue... but now it's all gone! Posted on 01/23/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Pati (Guest Post) I too had ink stains on my beige carpet. We thought we were going to have to replace the carpeting for the entire room. I tried the rubbing alcohol amd to my delight, IT WORKED on all of the spots. I used a shopvac to vacuum up the alcohol and the carpet looks like new. Thanks for the valued information. Isn't the internet great! Posted on 01/19/2008 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By (Guest Post) Thank you so much! The rubbing alcohol worked. I had red ink on my light grey carpet. I will tell everyone about it. I repeat RUBBING ALCOHOL works GREAT! As it was stated earlier it only cost around 95 cents. You can't beat that with a stick! Posted on 12/28/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By jay (Guest Post) My son broke an ink pen on our beige carpet. I used the rubbing alcohol method. Worked like MAGIC! THANKS A LOT! Posted on 12/24/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By l (Guest Post) Same story - pugs & pens don't mix! Did not see the stain under my ottoman for several days. Still have not found the actual ink portion on the pen... Used straight alcohol and blotted, then could not stop myself, eventually rubbed the area with another towel. Awsome - It is all gone! Thanks for the info - also happy to find out it is just not my weirdo dog doing this! Posted on 12/15/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Linda (Guest Post) Me too! Dog, black pen, beige carpet installed in September Aughhhh! I have tried everything on this site for 3 days. I never let the stain dry completely, but it would not budge. I finally decided that I would rather have a white stain than a black one. First I put lemon juice on it and opened the shades so that the sun would bleach it. It made it lighter, but I could still see it. I then took clorox "ultimate care" bleach and a toothbrush and carefully brushed the stain. It came up immediately and then I immediately soaked up all the bleach with cotton shop towles. So far it looks really good. It did break down a little bit of the actual twist in the fiber, but you have to get on your hands and knees to see it. Good Luck! Posted on 12/11/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Susan (Guest Post) Has anyone successfully removed printer ink from a wool/jute kilim rug? Alcohol doesn't do it and I can't use a water-based solution. Posted on 11/19/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By karen (Guest Post) Excellent advice - a dried-on printer ink stain on a pale blue carpet was removed in minutes by blotting with a small amount of rubbing alchohol on a clean tea towel. thanks! Posted on 10/24/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Faye Molitor (Guest Post) I just tried the rubbing alcohol solution to ink stains in carpet. WOW! It worked beautifully. My puppy got a hold of an ink pen as well, and I had a pretty good sized stain on my beige carpet. It took patience, but it removed the whole stain. Thanks for the advice! Posted on 10/22/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Lisa (Guest Post) Woke up to a black ink spot. Tried hair spray and it made a small ink blot a large ink blot. Then tried rubbing alcohol. What an amazing thing! Poured the alcohol on the large blot and used super absorbent paper towels to blot the ink. After about 45 minutes of continuous pouring and blotting the stain was gone. When I had a little residue remaining, I used a small hand held vacuum that allowed me to suck up the deep down alcohol. It removed the last of the ink residue. Best news is the rubbing alcohol only cost me 95 cents for a bottle at my local drug store. Posted on 10/14/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Kim (Guest Post) My husband was changing the printer cartridge and spilled black ink on our tan carpet. I used a paper towel to blot up the ink and then applied rubbing alcohol to it. I was AMAZED at how quickly the ink lifted entirely from the carpet. Thanks to everyone for the excellent suggestion! Posted on 10/02/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By Pam (Guest Post) Thanks for all the suggestions. I was feeling like most of you, the only one who has a puppy that chewed a pen and got ink on the carpet. I see now that I am not, but instead of black or blue, I got RED! Of course I have light carpet. I started with hairspray and that didn't do much. Then I tried white vinegar and baking soda. That got some up, but still not a lot. Then I took powdered OxyClean and sprinkled that over it and poured white vinegar over it until it stared bubbling. I let that sit and then got some more up. The final product was alcohol and it turned the red a nice bright yellow/orange, but it started coming up great. Still have some residue, but took most of it up. I'll work on it again tomorrow and see what happens. Posted on 09/11/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse ink from carpet By john (Guest Post) The hairspray (aquanet) sprayed over the ink worked. 2 hrs later I toothbrushed vinegar/water/baking soda mixture. it got a lot of ink out but then their was an ink blurr. I thought I was screwed. The next morning the 'blur' was gone. i guess the hairspray/vinegar/baking soda combo continued working and 'bleached' the ink out. Thanks Posted on 09/03/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse RE: Removing Ink Stains From Carpet By John (Guest Post) I don't normally post things, but I came home and my puppy ate a black pen, and it soaked into the beige carpet. All I had in the house was the rubbing alcohol. Thank you to whoever came up with that! You saved my life, and probably the dog too from the wrath of my wife. Posted on 09/02/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

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