Abstract: A non-woven textile constructed using splitable staple fibers is usable in lithographic and inkjet printer machine cleaning applications. The use of the splitable staple fiber non-woven in a lithographic printing machine provides improved removal and containment of waste inks, fluids, and paper dust within the printer machine. The use of the splitable staple fiber non-woven in an inkjet printing machine also provides removal of ambient particulate such as human hair or other particulate foreign to the printer machine contained within the printer machine. The cleaning ability of the non-woven textile is a function of several properties including the large amount of available fiber surface area per area of non-woven, the surface uniformity, the fibers' microscopic sharp edges, the capillary force, and the mechanical toughness provided by the highly entangled split staple fine denier fibers which make up the splitable staple fiber non-woven.