be repeated as necessary to achieve a desired quality in the finished product the washing dilution steps are preferably carried out in a tank equipped with an agitator screen filtering can be again applied to assist in the removal of washing fluid vacuum filtering pressure filtering squeezing pressing drying and other solid liquid separation methods can also be applied to improve the recovery of washing fluid solvent and ink are both preferably recovered after physical treatment to separate the ink from solvent as was noted above tile solvent is preferably recovered for use in subsequent deinkings while the ink is recovered and reused in future applications appropriate physical separation techniques include centrifugation filtration precipitation distillation and their combination flocculants may also be added to improve the physical separation process various cationic anionic and nonionic flocculants for water treatment may be advantageously used examples of such flocculants include polyamines polyacrylamide acrylates and polyacrylamides it is to be appreciated that adverse environmental effects are minimized by the process of the present invention all solvents used in the disclosed process are recovered and recycled as described above additionally the deinking of wastepaper provides substantial environmental advantages relative to the use of virgin papers it is also to be appreciated that the process of the present invention is simple relative to conventional deinking processes and may be economically practiced also fibers deinked according to the present invention are of superior quality and can be used to make paper containing 100 recycled fibers reference will now be made to specific examples using the processes described above it is to be understood that the examples are.