So! You finished your first print and now you have a gooey oily sticky mess in the studio. Nobody told you how to clean up! What follows is an illustrated guide to clean up, pets are optional.

What you need are weapons, to wit:

1. An old phone book, newspaper, or similar destroyable and recyclable source of waste paper
2. Mineral, vegetable, or nut oil to your taste; baby oil is my favorite. No babies were harmed in the extraction of oil. Choose one with pleasant odor and CHEAP.
3. Windex cleaner of Windex brand, no other will do.
4. A razor blade scraper with razor installed, no you may not use a putty or ink knife, just don't do the trick.
5. VIVA towels, no other is as soft and absorbent no matter what Mrs. Bounty tells you. One towel was used exclusively for this experiment.

Okay, you are now ready to proceed.
Begin by rolling your roller upon the phone book several times. You may notice the advertisements get darker, this is normal; don't panic and proceed until most of the ink is gone from the roller, as shown.
When finished, carefully discard phone book pages into your usual waste bucket. Alternatively, you may discard this into an unusual waste bucket.
  

Next, the baby oil comes into play. Endeavor to maintain composure as you work with this delightful material.
A few drops or a small squirt will suffice. If you are working with a small amount of ink, as I was for this demonstration, one paper towel will suffice for the entire clean up job and subsequently cleaning up after your lunch. Really, trees are getting scarce, even Viva-trees...where the heck was I? Oh yeah! A few drops will do.

Now clean the remaining ink off the roller. Don't forget the edges and between the armature of the roller, otherwise you will build up ink in there. Continue wiping the roller until you can eat off of it, although it is difficult to keep your food steady on the curved surface.
Wipe the ink off the block. Oops, I forgot to tell you that before you go wiping the ink off the block, print on waste paper a few times so that little ink remains on the block. Okay, now wipe the remaining ink off the block with gentle touch so that you don't goop up your lines.
Clean block, clean roller, I'm hoping you can tell which is which.
   

Now the scary part. The slab. It is indeed full of ink, you should see it after I do a four color puzzle print.
We begin by scraping the ink with a razor blade in a scraper holder. Use the phone book to wipe the scraper. In some occassions you may want to use an ink knife first, they are easier to clean and will pick up more ink. However, you will notice that they do not do as good a job at scraping as a scraper. Which is logical, that's why they call it a scraper, what I can't figure out is why they call an ink knife a knife, but maybe that's just me.
Okay, now I'm hoping you are finished scraping and look at that slab!!! There is hardly anything left for the Viva...viva! (you probably didn't get this last attempt at humor unless you are Spanish).
  

Clean the ink off the scraper and remaining ink with a clean spot of the towel. Toss as before with a little garlic (oops, wrong recipe).
  
 

Squirt some Windex onto the slab, wipe with either clean towel, a Windex-only rag, or the sleeve of your sweatshirt if you have a lot of sweatshirts.

Clean block, slab, roller, and fingernails!

Cricket, conveniently placed on top of my matting and framing table, inspecting prints that are ready to de-hair and mat. She thinks I'm a little crazy. I think she's a little hairy.