MacBook Pro's Black Cleaning Cloth Dye Bleeding!

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MacBook Pro's Black Cleaning Cloth Dye Bleeding!

Been gently washing my black cleaning cloth which came with my 2011 MBP with lukewarm water and gentle dish soap for over a year now and it is still bleeding the black dye. I am a little concerned. For the premium price people pay for these notebooks, Apple could save money with an undyed cleaning cloth couldn't they? Has anyone noticed and also been concerned about this? I mean it isn't like it's vegetable dye right? What do you think? Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 17"MBP (late '11) 2.5Ghz i7 w/16GB

Posted on Dec 28, 2012 2:33 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 28, 2012 2:45 AM in response to veepro

Hmm... mine's in a drawer somewhere. I use iKlear products to clean my Apple products and have washed my multiple chamois a number of times in the washing machine: no 'bleeding'.

Maybe you should order an iKlear starter kit?

Clinton

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Chamar

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Dec 28, 2012 2:47 AM in response to veepro

Having never seen an Apple supplied cleaning cloth with any of my MacBooks I use a slightly damp microfibre cloth. Works a treat!

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Dec 28, 2012 8:07 PM in response to veepro

I'm washing it gently by hand in lukewarm water in the sink with gentle dish soap, the dye is running but the cloth shows no signs of fading even after a year and some. I don't know what dye they use for their black microfibre cloths which comes with 2011 MacBook Pros but gentle washing is getting out a lot of black dye, it just bleeds out and streams out. I'm going to just use cold water from now on because I don't know if the dye is toxic enough. Rather not continue risking. I've always used iKlear by the way.

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Answer 4

Apr 22, 2013 10:23 AM in response to veepro

The supplied cleaning cloth is useless. It would smear oil all over my screen. I faithfully use the ShaggyMac and OptiMist Prime Spray also faithfully used by many collegues of mine. A+

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Answer 5

Apr 22, 2013 1:49 PM in response to veepro

Why do you care?

Is it staining the screen when you wipe it?

If this is all you have to worry about, consider yourself very fortunate and get over it.

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