How to Clean a Thermal Printer with a Thermal Printer Cleaning Pen

How to Clean a Thermal Printer with a Thermal Printer Cleaning Pen

A thermal printer is a type of printer that creates markings on a label or piece of paper by melting a section of thermal wax ribbon onto it. Thermal printers are typically used to print out barcode tags and labels. Most manufacturers recommend that the print head of the thermal printer be cleaned every time the ribbon is changed. Regular cleanings will prevent you from having to replace the thermal print head often, which is beneficial because the thermal print head is the most expensive replacement part on a thermal printer.

Yousite offers cleaning products designed to help remove adhesives, build-up, and gunky residue from Thermal Printers & liner-free label Printers.

Thermal printer Cleaning Pen

1. Thermal Printer Cleaning Pen Barrel is filled with 99.9% Electronic Grade IPA Solution.

2. Thermal printer IPA cleaning Pen which is designed to effectively remove ink residue, burnt-on debris, dirt, and contaminants from the Print Head.

3. Regular cleaning will extend the service life of the Print Head and achieve High-Quality Graphic Images.

Application

Recommended Usage: Use every time a new roll of the label, thermal paper or ribbon stock is needed or in emergencies to correct lines or imperfections in the printed copy.

Usage Directions:

To clean thermal print heads, swipe the cleaning pen across the entire print head surface.
Repeat if necessary.
To clean the pen tip, wipe across the clean paper surface.

Thermal Printer Head Cleaning Pen 99% IPA Solution

Printhead Cleaning Pen with 99% IPA Solution for Quickly Removing Contaminants from Thermal Printers Including Label Printer,…

All types of a thermal printers.

All brand ID card printers: Zebra, Fargo, Magicard, Evolis, etc.

Pcb, IC, cleaning fields.

We also offer a cleaning kit (including a cleaning card, cleaning swab, cleaning wipes, and cleaning roller)

Thermal Printer Cleaning Pens, 12/Box

This thermal printer cleaning pen is designed for use on thermal printers that have an accessible print head. In short, the printer can be easily opened and the print head itself is exposed. Adding a little pressure as you move the pen across the print head will gently scrub off the burnt-on particles. The heat from the clean print head can then transfer to the print media. The cleaning pen barrel contains 99.7% IPA, the recommended cleaning solution by thermal printer manufacturers. It is recommended by thermal printer manufacturers to clean the print head with every change of paper or label stock for crisply printed material.

Pen Size = 14.5cm Length x 4.5cm Round Width
Pre-saturated felt within the pen
Reduces residue build-up without dismantling equipment
Quick, easy, inexpensive preventative maintenance

Thermal Printer Cleaning Pen Will Clean:

Thermal Print Heads.
POS Thermal Printers.
Thermal Credit Card Printers.
Zebra Label Printers.
And many more applications!

Evolis A5002 or CR80

Transport Rollers Cleaning Card

Transport Rollers Cleaning Card

For use with all Evolis card printers · For the cleaning of card transport rollers · Pre-saturated cleaning cards packaged in an individual tear-open pouch.
The subway is a city’s emerging traffic tool, carrying millions of flows daily. Subway cards as carrier material to take the subway, which greatly improves the convenience of people’s travel. However, due to the metro card carrying a lot of dust, the credit card for a long time will cause the card slot card the accumulation of large amounts of dust, affecting the efficiency of a passenger car.

Evolis A5002 or CR80

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

These double-sided pre-saturated Card Cleaning Cards are designed to safely remove all forms of dust, lint, magnetic oxides, and other contaminants that build up on magnetic and optic reader heads. They safely and effectively clean all types of concealed heads, photo, and optic sensors on mechanisms.

Facing this problem, how to solve it?

Yousite’s cleaning card can easily dispose of this puzzle. We are specializing in the production of cleaning cards, cleaning swabs, and cleaning kit manufacturers, for the subway card slot that is easy to dirty, and we are also through continuous testing, making our cleaning cards more easily, and more suitable for all subway stations. When the cleaning card slot is, you can first use our cleaning card clean, and then use a clean foam swab to erase the dust around the corner. If some induction card readers, don’t put try our cleaning cloth, the effect is very good.
In addition, ticket machines, and vending machines in the subway is also can clean our products, if there are good cooperation intentions, may wish to discuss cooperation with Yousite. technology!

Cleaning Cards For Banknote Counters

Glossary Of Card Printer Terms

 Glossary of common card printer terms

Find definitions for printing terms and learn the jargon of the profession. To get what you need it helps to have the tools to describe it.

1: Barcode: It consists of a set of bars and spaces with different widths and different reflectivity. Combining according to the specified encoding and rules, it is used to represent a set of symbols for data.

 

2: Color matching: There are several color matching modes in the printer, these options are built in the original printer driver for easy selection. Color printing can be more clear, fine and accurate.

 

3: Contact IC card encoder: It is connected to the GEMPLUS GEMCORE 410 inside the printer through the ISO standard pins on the E-CARD platform. GEMCORE 410 converts the signal to RS-232 signal, and the application program can access it through the 9-pin communication port on the outside of the printer.

 

4: Non-contact IC card encoder: It is connected to the device through the antenna on the E-CARD platform. The application program can communicate with it through the external DB-9 pin communication port of the printer.

 

5: Printing Cards: The direct-to-card process is the process of printing digital images directly onto plastic cards with a smooth, clean, PVC surface.

 

6: Dpi (dots/inch): The unit of measurement for printer resolution. For example: 600DPI means that the printer can produce 600 dots per inch on the card. Note: 2400DPI in inkjet printing is equivalent to 300DPI in dye sublimation printing.

 

7: Double card feeder: Choose a printer with a capacity of up to 200 double card feeders. That is to say, you can load 200 same cards or 100 different cards into different card feeders at a time, which will be more effective. For example, if you use cards with gold and silver backgrounds, it is easier to distinguish the type of members, etc.

 

8: Dye-sublimation: It is the printing technology used by printers, which can produce smooth continuous tone, photo-quality images. This technology utilizes a dye-sublimation dye-based ribbon: the ribbon is divided into three color patches of yellow, magenta, and cyan. When the ribbon and card pass through the print head, tens of thousands of heat elements heat the dye on the ribbon, and the dye will vaporize and penetrate into the card surface after being heated. Different heat produces different color saturation and continuous color Mixed together, a continuous-tone, photo-quality color image is produced.

 

9: Edge-to-edge printing: used to refer to the larger printing surface of the card: printers with edge-to-edge capabilities can print to the edge of the card, without “white edges”.

 

10: Large-capacity printing: use less time to load and unload consumables and maintenance to produce cards quickly and excellently.

 

11: High resolution printing: This refers to printing full-color images onto the transfer film. The film is then transferred to the card by heat pressing. This revolutionary technology not only enhances the card’s durability and excellent color, but also can print to rough surface card. Such as: ID card and smart card.

 

12: High-speed printing: The card printer is the fastest among desktop printers. High-speed printing can make us produce cards more efficiently-saving time, money, and resources.

 

13: ISO: Magnetic stripe encoding specification defined by the International Organization for Standardization. The encoder supports high and low magnetic and 1, 2, 3 magnetic tracks.

 

14: Liquid crystal display: In the current operation mode of the printer, LCD-full crystal display-it shows the current working status and changes of the printer, and the LCD uses text to display error messages. This is easier to read than flashing lights.

 

15: Lockable card feeder: Some printers provide a lockable card feeder door. This lock is used to prevent white cards from being stolen, this feature is very useful when printing valuable cards. Such as prepaid cards, smart cards or cards with security features.

 

16: Magnetic stripe: The magnetic stripe refers to the black and brown magnetic stripes stuck on the card. The higher the density, the more difficult it is to read and write information on the magnetic strip. Magnetic stripes are commonly used in access control, attendance, dining, libraries and other fields.

 

17: Card output box: store printed cards. Sequence is FIFO – to issue and print sequential cards more quickly.

 

18: Lamination: Protective transparent or holographic laser anti-counterfeiting material covered on the card to increase the security and durability of the card. Thermal transfer film is a 0.25 mil TP material that enhances card security and durability. Polyguard film thickness is 1 mil and 0.6 mil; it can provide stronger protection, this kind of card is usually used in the field of high wear-resistant card.

 

19: Laminated color block: The transparent laminated color block is usually on the sublimation ribbon. This color block is automatically printed onto the card to prevent premature wear and fading of the image due to UV rays. All dye sublimation images must be covered with this film, laser security film to be protected.

 

20: Overedge: Refers to the larger printing area of ​​the card. Printers with an over-edge feature can print cards that are completely borderless.

 

21: Contactless card: Use the built-in antenna to realize non-contact use.

 

22: Resin thermal transfer: This technology is used to print clear black text information and barcodes that can be read by infrared and visible light barcode scanners. It can also be used to print fast, cheap monochrome cards. Like Dye Sublimation. It is similar to using the print head to transfer the color from the ribbon to the card, but the difference is that when the heat and pressure are applied, the color image penetrates below the surface of the card. This technology is used for monochrome cards for production.

 

23: Smart card: It has embedded a computer integrated circuit with a memory chip microprocessor chip. Several common types are: storage IC card, non-contact IC card, hybrid card, dual interface card, proximity card, etc.

 

24: Intelligent anti-counterfeiting: It enables the printer to print cards with custom anti-counterfeiting patterns, and the anti-counterfeiting patterns will fluoresce under the ultraviolet light.

 

25: Standard card: The size of the standard card is CR-80. CR-80 size is 85.6mm x 54mm.

 

26: Thermal transfer lamination: It is an anti-counterfeiting film for cards, with a thickness of 0.25 mil, which can increase the security and anti-counterfeiting of cards. It is often used in moderate security and anti-wear fields.

The Special Cleaning Card For Printer

Thermal Printer Cleaning Cards

Thermal Printer Cleaning Cards

Clean your Thermal Printer with every media roll change or at least twice per month. Printers become dirty from “paper dust” and adhesives as well as environmental contaminants such as airborne grease particles.

This cleaning card removes burnt-on paper particles and adhesive residue that build up on a printer’s thermal print head.

The minimum temperature of the print head is 158 degrees Fahrenheit. Which will burn foreign material to the print head causing streaks and fading of the printed label or receipt.

The cleaning card is the most versatile method of cleaning a print head as it does not require the print head to be easily accessible or exposed.

In most cases, with the power off, you insert it as you would the print media and just pull the card through.

The most commonly used size of thermal printer print head. It is suitable for most thermal printers, including barcode printers, label printers, receipt printers. The card is soaked in the IPA solution to make it effectively remove the residual oxide on the print head. It has a flat surface and thin thickness, reducing material costs while also meeting cleaning requirements. Because the print head and platen rollers are also flat. Good absorbency and long-lasting cleaning.

It is recommended by thermal printer manufacturers to clean the print head with every change of paper or label stock for crisply printed material.
For the most thorough cleaning use the Yousite Thermal Printer Cleaning Cards.

These unique cleaning cards will not only clean the print head but rotate the platen rollers as they clean to remove contaminates that normally would just migrate back to the print head.

The combination of scrubbing waffles and the ability to rotate the platen rollers makes this product by far the choice of OEMs.

Zebra 105912-913 Premier Cleaning Kit

Zebra T-shape Long Cleaning Card

Long TShape Cleaning Kits for P120i Card Printer 105912-312, 50/Bag(50pcs Cleaning Cards, Length 320mm): Cleaning Kits .

Zebra T-shape long Cleaning Card

1. Blending polyester, spun lace, cellulose, and PVC card.
2. For cleaning contaminants from Zebra printers.
3. Hot-press compound.

Description

Zebra 105912-913 Premier Cleaning Kit

The Zebra P330I cleaning kit includes 25 standard cleaning cards (CR80 cleaning cards), and 25 T-size cards (print engine cleaning cards). Zebra 105912-913.

The saturated disposable cleaning card is designed for cleaning effectively dirt, magnetic oxides, oils, debris, lotions, and other contaminants from all kinds of ID card printers, scanners, readers, and barcodes. It is a cost-effective way to maintain your card readers and increase the service life of the magnetic heads We can produce different cleaning cards for different printer numbers according to your requirements.

Features

-Blending spunlace, polyester, cellulose, and PVC card.
-Better absorbency than other 100% cleaning cards.
-Strong adhesives -No pollution by contaminants.
-Electronic-grade IPA -Safety, Effective, Easy.
-Aluminium foil packing makes it have strong tightness and keeps longer time.

IPA Cleaning Pen _ Cleaning Swab

How To Use The Printer Cleaning Card Cleaning Roller

How to use the printer cleaning card cleaning roller

As the printer roller cleans the cards, it is necessary to clean the roller regularly.

The cleaning swab can be used to clean print heads, card paths, guides and rollers. Swab stem hold cleaning solution which will safely and effectively remove all the printhead and any build-up on the printer’s rollers. Clean when experiencing poor print quality, illegible receipts, paper jams or print voids.

In order to ensure good print quality printer about every print 1000 In order to ensure good print quality printer, approximately every 1000 cards printed card is necessary to use a clean.

(Note: the card into the card slot into the bottom of the rollers should be kept clean to prevent contamination and the card into the card fails).

1. Open the front cover of the printer, remove the ribbon and transfer the film frame.
2. Remove the slot and the slot.
3. Clean out the card from the cleaning kit, and remove the double-sided adhesive tape.
4. Close the front cover of the printer, and the printer cleaning card is inserted into the slot edges.
5. On your computer, click on the bottom left corner of the screen “Start” menu, select “Control Panel”, then select “Printers and Faxes”, and then choose the right HDP5000 printer icon on the “Printing Preferences”, click “OK” just above “ToolBox” button.
6. Select the “Clean Printer” tab.
7. Click the “Clean” button.

(Note: The printer will inhale the clean card cleaning process is performed automatically cleaning process has been pre-designed to automatically and thoroughly clean the inside of the printer rollers and roller into the card.)

Fargo 89200/88933 Cleaning Kits

HDP5000 Card Printer Cleaning Kit Special Items

HDP5000 Card Printer Cleaning Kit special items

Fargo card printer in the print industry is also a very good quality printer, but the printer itself received the surrounding environment, such as prolonged use of the print head has accumulated a lot of dust, or due to other causes the printer can not be used, it needs to be clean up.

This paper is to tell you about a special cleaning kit Fargo HDP5000 This item has what Card Printer.

Fargo 89200/88933 Cleaning Kits

89200/88933 Cleaning Kit 4 Printer Head Cleaning Swabs · 10 Cleaning Cards · 10 Cleaning Pads · 3 Alcohol Cleaning Cards · Compatible with HDP6600 & HDP8500.

First, the four printhead cleaning swabs to clean the printer head.

The printhead is an important part of the card printer, the printhead must be cleaned on a regular basis.

Second, the 10 clean wipes for cleaning the printer’s interior and exterior.

Some fine dust is because of the electrostatic adsorption inside the printer or external, which will lead to a printer or inside the dust being very thick.
Third, 10 sheets of clean paper cards, clean the printer roller.

The wheel is transmitted card components, if the wheel itself carries dust, card-making, will inevitably affect the quality.

Four, or three alcohol cleaning cards, to clean the printer roller.

Our main point is to use the sticky card to the printer wheels are clean. If the effect is not very satisfactory, using alcohol to clean the card can be icing on the cake.

For more card printer cleaning kit items, welcome to our company or contact our sales staff on the site.

The Special Cleaning Card For Printer

The Special Cleaning Card For Printer

The printer is divided into different types, such as thermal printers, inkjet printers, card printers, and thermal printers, are mainly used for Adhesive Card, cleaning pens and cleaning foam swabs to clean up, but the card printer and inkjet printers can be used to clean. Now there are a lot of Adhesive Card manufacturers on the market, how do buy printer cleaning cards?
Under normal circumstances, each will have a different type of printer, the printer of the imports and exports also have different widths, so they need the corresponding printer, Adhesive Card.

Some friends will ask, why can’t I make a similarly sized card to clean?

Cards clean the printhead and any build-up on the printer’s rollers. Clean when experiencing poor print quality, illegible receipts, paper jams, or print voids.

Two can also be used for cleaning soaked with IPA card, the effect of other products can not compete.

Yousite company carries cleaning kits for ID card printer manufacturers including Zebra (Eltron), Magicard, Fargo, Evolis, and Datacard(Entrust).
Now Yousite also pays close attention to its own brand of products, we believe that Yousite’s printer cleaning kit will gradually occupy the market.

Fargo 81518 Cleaning Kit

How to Clean Fargo DTC4500 Card Printer

How to clean the Fargo DTC4500 card printer.

Recommended to clean your Fargo DTC4500 card printer when you change your ribbon. All you need is a Yousite long cleaning card compatible with Fargo DTC4500.

Steps for cleaning Fargo DTC4500:

1: The maintenance and working environment of the card printer is an important factor affecting the operation and service life of the printer. So please try not to place the printer in a workplace with too much dust or strong sunlight.

2: Regular cleaning of the printer can keep the printer in a better condition, print better quality results, and avoid failures.

3: Before cleaning the printer, please clean the dust around the inside of the printer. And then Clean the card reader ribbon with a cleaning card.

4: Recommended to clean your Fargo DTC4500 card printer when you change your ribbon

If the machine is in a relatively bad working environment, please shorten the interval between two cleanings and increase the number of cleanings.

5: The cleaning of any printer consists of three parts. The cleaning wheel cleans the card; the cleaning pen cleans the print head; the cleaning card cleans all the rollers in the machine.

Three parts are indispensable: Use the cleaning pen to clean the print head. It can better protect the print head and prolong its service life of the print head.

Recommended purchasing related cleaning kits.

6: Before cleaning the printer, please use a cleaning stick to clean the dust inside the printer and around the printer (the dust floating inside the printer may be charged with static electricity due to the operation of the cooling fan during the working process of the printer, and it is easy to be adsorbed on the print head and cause broken needle in the print head), and then clean it with the cleaning kit.

7: Please do not reuse the cleaning card: After the cleaning card is used once, there is very little detergent on the cleaning card, and the cleaning effect cannot be achieved.

8: Be careful not to damage the print head when opening or closing the case cover.

9: Do not carry hard objects such as watches and rings when checking the machine, as they are easy to touch and damage the print head.

Magicard M9005-761 Cleaning Kit

Rio Pro Card Printer Cleaning

Printer cleaning consists of three parts. The cleaning rollers clean the card; the cleaning pen cleans the print head; the cleaning card cleans all the rollers in the machine.

Three parts are indispensable: Use the cleaning pen to clean the print head. It can better protect the print head and prolong its service life of the print head. It is recommended to purchase related cleaning kits.

Rio Pro Card Printer Cleaning

To keep your Rio Pro working properly, you should clean the printer every time you change the dye film ribbon.
To do this, you need a Rio Pro turned on, a new cleaning card, and a cleaning pen as well as the new Cleaning Roller Assembly.

Magicard M9005-761 Cleaning Kit

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.

Steps for cleaning Rio Pro:

It is recommended to use a cleaning card to clean all the spindles in the machine and replace the cleaning rollers after each roll of ribbon is used. If the machine is in a relatively bad working environment, please shorten the interval between two cleanings and increase the number of cleanings.

1. First, remove the card hopper and open the printer to remove the dye film ribbon and the blue sticky roller underneath it. Remove the metal bar from this blue roller, and set it aside in a safe place.
2. Use the menu on the front of the printer and navigate to the cleaning rollers option. Use the keys to work through the guidance messages ensuring your printer is ready for cleaning.
3. Open the pouch containing the new cleaning card and remove the card. Select “yes” on the printer, and insert the cleaning card. While the card is in the printer, the parts left by the printing process are removed with the alcohol in the card.
4. Flipping the card and repeating this process at least two to four times in order to get everything really clean. The cleaning process takes only a few seconds, and when it’s done you can clearly see the result.
5. Sometimes the Rio Pro’s rollers may be really dirty. In this case, you need to manually clean. Leave the automatic clean mode, and select move card from the main menu.
6. For the cleaning card in half, press it onto the main middle roller while holding down one of the move card buttons. Move the cleaning card back and forth for around 15 to 20 seconds. You can clearly see the dirt and debris removed by this process.
7. You may also wish to clean the Rio intake roller. Turn the printer around and pulled the upward move card button while pressing the cleaning card onto the Rio roller for 15 to 20 seconds. Again, this cleaning process leaves a clear result.
8. Finally, it is important to clean the printhead on the Rio pro. Gently move the pen across the printhead to remove any dust or residue.
9. After cleaning you’ll install a new sticky roller to the printer. Remove the roller from the dye film box, and insert the metal bar which you set aside earlier. Unwrap the roller and snap it into place directly above the orange roller towards the back of the unit. Removed the new roller dye film from the box and unwrap it. Place the dye film into the printer.
10. Gently close the lid of the printer and replace the card hopper in the back of the unit.
Your Rio Pro is clean and ready to print.