A comparison was made of raw ginned cotton fiber and yarn quality between a full-size experimental prototype combination gin-lint cleaner and a standard commercial gin stand and two lint cleaner system. The experimental system had an 8-percent higher lint cleaning efficiency while better maintaining fiber length and creating fewer short fibers. Raw fiber nep contents were consistent with observed cleaning levels in both lint cleaning systems. Full-scale spinning tests showed that opening and carding waste were significantly lower for the fiber processed through the experimental system. Yarn quality measurements tended to show that the experimental cleaner resulted in yarn that was as good or better than yarn produced from the standard treatment. The experimental system has a good potential for reducing the capital and operating costs of lint cleaning systems because of fewer component parts and lower operating energy requirements.