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Describes a deinking agent composition and a method for deinking wastepaper printed with electrostatic ink or mixtures thereof with wastepaper printed with impact ink in which a combination of nonionic surfactants are added to an alkaline slurry of paper fibers. The surfactants are a first nonionic surfactant represented by the formula: R--Ph--(OC.sub.2 H.sub.4).sub.m --(OC.sub.3 H.sub.6).sub.n --(OC.sub.4 H.sub.8).sub.p --R.sup.1 and a second nonionic surfactant represented by R.sup.5 --C.sub.6 H.sub.4 O--(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.t --H, block copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide or mixtures of such second nonionic surfactants. R is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing from 8 to 10 carbon atoms, Ph is phenylene, R.sup.1 is chloro or phenoxy, R.sup.5 is C.sub.8 -C.sub.13 alkyl, the sum of m, n, and p is a number between 1 and 10, and t is a number between 1 and 9. The deinking agent composition also contains optional nonpolar solvent(s). The ratio of first to second nonionic surfactants is selected and adjusted to provide enhanced agglomeration of electrostatic ink.

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