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ATM/Card Reader Cleaning Card CR80

This Presaturated ATM/Card reader Cleaning Card is designed to safely and effectively remove all dirt, magnetic oxides, oils, lotions, and other contaminants from all types of concealed magnetic, photo and optic sensors on all types of reader mechanisms.
Card Readers require preventative maintenance for keeping the Magnetic Heads clean and debris free from contamination build-up.

Regular maintenance costs for maintaining Evolis card printers. Keeping the printer transfer rollers clean can help improve print quality.

Pre-saturated ATM/ CARD READER Cleaning cards are a cost-effective way to maintain your card readers and increase the service life of the magnetic heads
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How to use card printer cleaning card

1. Required cleaning tools

Magicard M9005-761 Card Printer Cleaning Kit 10 T-Type Long Card, 1 Cleaning Pen, 5 Cleaning Rollers. For the Magicard Rio, Tango and Avalon printers.

1. Cleaning card 2. IPA Cleaning swab 3. Cleaning rollers.

2. Use of cleaning tools

1. First open the printer and take out the ribbon.

2. Tear off the packing bag and put the cleaning card into the card input box of the printer.

3. Open the card printer driver’s properties -> device settings.

4. Select the Tools tab, and click Printer 

6. Take out the cleaning cotton swab, squeeze the cotton swab stick, and let the liquid flow out to the head of the cotton swab.

7. Use a cotton swab to gently wipe the print head of the printer (wipe in one direction).

The Fargo 081518 cleaning kit includes everything you need to clean the inside of your Fargo DTC printer to keep it working optimally.

8. Wait for the liquid to dry and the body cleaning is complete.

3. Replace the cleaning rubber rollers. It’s roughly like this. If you want to see a specific and clear introduction, you can go to Beijing Fagao Sunshine. They have a clear explanation of the card machine with pictures, which is very clear and easy to understand.

Card Printer Tutorial

If you want to print hard cards, you may need a dedicated card printer to print hard cards.

How to print the credit card machine

first step:

Long press the on/off button of the credit card machine to turn it on. Some card machines have an account number and password, and you need to enter the password to sign in before you can use it.

Step two:

Press the “Confirm” button on the card reader, and then the card reader will enter the menu page, which will generally display: “1. Consumption; 2. Balance inquiry; 3. Cancellation; 4. Sign in; 5. Print; 6. Management; 7. Other” options.

third step:

We use it when we use the credit card machine for consumption, so we can press the “1 key” to select “Consumption”.

the fourth step:

Insert the IC card, if the card does not have a chip, just swipe the card directly in the card slot of the card reader. After the card is swiped successfully, the card number will be displayed on the screen of the card reader, just press “Confirm” after checking.

the fifth step:

That is to say, if the amount you swipe your card is 100, you have to enter 10000 on the credit card machine.

Step six:

After entering the amount, enter the transaction password of the card, confirm that the password is correct, and press the “Confirm” button, and the card reader will successfully swipe the card.

How does the printer swipe the card to print?

Supplement: If you have opened a telephone banking service, you can also complete it through telephone consultation.

How to use the card printer

Card printer consumables have a number of sheets. One set can print 1,000 single-sided cards. In fact, the number of printed cards may be less than 1,000, so budget your own consumables according to your punching volume.

How to clean the card printer

1. Make sure that the power of our printer is turned on.

2. Go back to the computer connected to the printer and click the “Start” menu on the desktop. Then you can see the “Devices and Printers” option in the start menu, click it.

3. After entering the device interface, we can see our printer. Find the printer we want to clean and click the right mouse button, you can see “Printer Properties” in the pop-up menu bar, click it.

4. After entering the printer properties interface, we can find the “Maintenance” option in the interface and click it.

5. In the maintenance interface, we can see the “cleaning” option, click it.

6. After that, an interface will pop up, click the “Execute” option on it.

7. Finally, an interface will pop up saying that our printer is cleaning, just click OK.

How to use the printer cleaning card

1. Click Start in the lower-left corner of the computer. Select Printers and Devices, select the printer driver icon, and what you need to click here is Printing Preferences.

Click the application tool tab, first perform the nozzle inspection on the upper left, at this time the printer will print a piece of paper with a slanted mesh image on it, you can easily see if there are broken lines or incomplete places, if so, you need to Perform nozzle cleaning, which is the second button from the upper left.

How to use the card printer cleaning card

1. Ribbon deviation occurs during printing

The main reason is that the platen spring is uneven and the paper limiter is not adjusted according to the width of the label, not because of the poor quality of the ribbon cutting.

2. The printing is not clear and the quality is poor

There may be the following reasons:

1. The temperature of the print head is too low or the print density is too light
. 2. The print head is not installed correctly

3. There is always a shallow thin line on the label printed by the printer

If your printer has such a problem, it proves that you have not done enough to maintain the printer.

When there are one or several lines running through the entire card, the most likely reason is that your print head is damaged. The reason for such a problem is that there are large dust particles on the card surface or in your machine, which causes the print head to come into contact with the dust particles while punching the card, thus scratching the print head.

If the printer punches a card and there is a large area of ​​the card that is not printed, there are two possibilities:

1. The print head is seriously damaged. 2. The data cable of the print head is damaged. If this happens to your printer, please contact our engineers to confirm the damaged part and repair method.

The damage of the print head is irreparable. In this case, only a new print head can be replaced.

The way to avoid this situation is: 1. Pay attention to cleaning the printer regularly. 2. Pay attention to the cleanliness of the card surface (check for abnormal protrusions). 3. Be careful not to touch the print head when opening or closing the case cover. 4. When checking the machine, do not carry watches, rings and other objects that are easy to touch the print head (note static electricity).

If your print head is damaged, you will need to purchase a new print head to replace it.

4. Occasionally, some spots will appear on the label printed by the printer

If there are some spots on your printed cards, it is because your printer has accumulated dust and needs to be cleaned in time. It is recommended that you use special cleaning tools when cleaning, which can well protect the printer from damage.

If your printer is not cleaned for a long time, there will be some large dust particles inside the printer, which will scratch your print head when you punch the card, causing irreparable damage to the print head.

The working principle of the card printer is the same. When punching the card, keep the card surface neat and clean (it is best to wipe each card with an eye cloth before printing), so that the printed card will not be flawed.

5. How to solve the problem of ribbon wrinkling

Reason:

1.
2 Temperature setting is incorrect;
3 Printhead pressure and balance are not set correctly;
4 Media is not set correctly for the feed;

Solution:

1 Reinstall the medium correctly
2 Adjust the printing temperature to meet the printing requirements as much as possible
3 Reset the minimum pressure required for printing
4 Reset the correct paper feeding amount of the medium

6. Why does the ribbon “stick” to the cloth label?

When the barcode machine is printing the cloth label (tape), some types of barcode machines will have the carbon tape and the cloth label stick together. 

Let’s take a look at how the carbon ribbon and the cloth label are glued together:

The thermal transfer barcode machine is like a hot stamping machine, except that the hot stamping machine uses gold paper, while the barcode machine uses carbon ribbons. They are all one material that is attached to another material through high temperature. If the printed material is melted at this temperature, it will stick to the carbon ribbon or gold paper.

After clarifying this relationship, we can lower the temperature of the hot spot of the printing hair of the bar code machine or reduce the pressure of the printing head, which can prevent the ribbon from sticking to the cloth label, but sometimes this method is not It is suitable for any barcode machine (low-end barcode machine). At this time, they can pull the cloth label when printing the cloth label (remember to pull it at the beginning of printing!) so that it can also be slightly raised in usefulness.

The most thorough way is to change to an industrial barcode machine with better performance. This kind of barcode machine will not appear in this situation when printing. In addition, if you really don’t want to change it, you can also put the barcode machine in an air-conditioned room. This will improve the situation. Some customers say the conditions are better in winter than in summer! Maybe it’s the ambient temperature.