Dust-Off
Screen care
Touch Screen Wipes, 200 count
★★★★☆4.1 from 163 ratings
$43.73
Pre moistened wipes in a pull top jar that lift skin oil, prints, and stray lint off glass displays where dry gas cannot help.
By the gear
Screens and displays
Monitors, laptop displays, tablets and the phone screens that get touched all day.
The gas is step one of two
A stream lifts the dust and the pet hair, and that is where its part ends. What is left on the glass after that is oil, and oil needs a cloth.
Dry cloth first, moist wipe second
Most displays come clean with microfiber and nothing else. The wipes are for the touchscreen that has had a day of fingers on it, where dry alone just moves the film around.
Nothing sprayed at the panel
Whatever the liquid is, it belongs on the cloth and not on the screen. Panels have edges, edges have gaps, and anything that runs down the glass ends up behind it.
Matte and glossy behave differently
A glossy panel shows every fingerprint and cleans up easily. A matte panel hides the prints until the light is wrong, and its texture holds onto the oil, so it wants a slower pass with more of the cloth in contact.
Either way the motion is the same: straight lines across the panel, one direction, with a dry part of the cloth for the last pass.
Bezels and the frame
The gap between the panel and the bezel is a dust trap and the reason a screen looks grubby around the edge. That is a straw job, aimed along the gap rather than into it.
The bottom bezel of a laptop takes the worst of it, because it sits directly above the keyboard and catches everything that comes off the keys.