Maintaining your thermal printer's performance and print quality requires regular cleaning, and thermal printer cleaning cards are an effective solution for this purpose.
What Are Thermal Printer Cleaning Cards?
Thermal printer cleaning cards are specially designed tools pre-saturated with cleaning solutions, typically containing high-purity Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA). These cards are engineered to remove contaminants such as dirt, ink residue, adhesives, and other debris that accumulate on the print heads, paper guides, and paper paths of thermal printers. Regular use of these cleaning cards helps in maintaining optimal print quality and prolongs the lifespan of the printer components.
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.
Product Options:
Here are some thermal printer cleaning cards available in the market: