Fargo Printers Cleaning and Maintenance

Fargo Printers Cleaning and Maintenance

Cleaning and Maintenance of Fargo Printers

Fargo cleaning cards are designed to clean the internal components of Fargo card printers. These printers are commonly used for printing ID cards, membership cards, and other types of plastic cards. Over time, the printer’s internal components, such as the print head and rollers, can become contaminated with dust, debris, and other particles. This can cause poor print quality and even damage the printer if left unattended. Fargo cleaning cards are easy to use and help maintain the printer’s performance.

Here are the steps to use a Fargo cleaning card:

  1. Turn off the printer – Before using the cleaning card, make sure the printer is turned off and unplugged from the power source.
  2. Open the printer cover – Open the printer cover to access the printer’s internal components. Refer to the printer manual for specific instructions on how to open the printer cover.
  3. Remove the ribbon – Remove the ribbon from the printer. This will expose the print head, which is the component that needs to be cleaned.
  4. Open the cleaning card package – Open the cleaning card package and remove the cleaning card.
  5. Insert the cleaning card – Insert the cleaning card into the printer’s card feeder or slot, depending on the printer model. Make sure the cleaning card is inserted in the correct direction.
  6. Close the printer cover – Close the printer cover and make sure it is securely closed.
  7. Turn on the printer – Turn on the printer and wait for it to complete its startup process. The cleaning card will be automatically fed through the printer’s internal components.
  8. Discard the cleaning card – Once the cleaning card has been fed through the printer, discard it properly. Do not reuse cleaning cards.
  9. Replace the ribbon – After the cleaning process is complete, replace the ribbon and any other components that were removed.
  10. Test the printer – Print a test card to ensure that the printer is working properly.

It is recommended to use a Fargo cleaning card every time a new ribbon is installed in the printer or every 1000 card prints. This will ensure that the printer’s internal components are clean and functioning properly.

A.Model: IDPrinter Cleaning Kit 081518

Fargo 81518 Cleaning Kit

81518 Cleaning Kit -4 print head cleaning pens, 50 Adhesive cleaning cards, and 50 cleaning wipes(pads). 4225 / 4250 / C10 / C11 / C16 / C25 /…

Model: DTC Printer Cleaning Kit 081593

Fargo 81593/86003 Cleaning Kit

81593/86003 Cleaning Kit printhead cleaning pens, card roller cleaning cards, and cleaning pads(cleaning wipes) – for Fargo DTC550 printers.

2. Use of cleaning tools

To keep your card printer in top working condition, perform maintenance cleaning after every roll of ribbon or 250 prints.
The tools in the cleaning kit can help you complete standard cleaning steps more efficiently and thoroughly. Please clean your printer properly according to the following methods. entire

The entire The cleaning process will only take a few minutes of your time.

  •  4 cleaning pens pre-soaked with 99.99% acetone alcohol.
  • 50 cleaning cards are used to clean the cleaning wheels inside the machine.
  • 50 pieces of cleaning gauze pre-soaked with 99.99% isopropyl alcohol are used to clean the transmission wheel inside the machine.

Have you noticed an unprinted line on your printed card, if so then it’s time to clean your print head.
The print head should be cleaned every time the printer prints 250 sheets to ensure the print quality.
1. Open the top cover of the printer.
2. Use the print head cleaning pen to gently wipe the glass body of the print head several times to remove the accumulated dust on the print head.
3. Close the upper cover of the printer after cleaning. If the line still exists, please refer to the user manual for further cleaning of the print head.

How to clean the print head

Cleaning project use: cleaning pen

Datacard 557492-001 Cleaning Pen

Printhead cleaning pen contains Isopropanol alcohol proven to effectively clean the printhead from dirt, ink, and other contaminants that have built up over time.

The pressure bearing wheel of the printer should be cleaned after changing a roll or printing 250 cards. If the surface of the pressure bearing wheel of the printer looks dirty, it should be cleaned in time. Press

Please Follow the steps below to clean the printer pressure rollers.
1. Open the top cover of the printer.
2. Remove the ribbon (and transfer film).
3. Find the black pressure wheel.
4. When cleaning, press the On/Cancel (On Off) or Pause/Resume (On-Line) key to rotate the pressure bearing wheel, and wipe it over with a clean gauze.
5. Wait for the pressure roller to dry before loading the ribbon.

 

How to clean the pressure roller

Cleaning items use: cleaning gauze

IPA Cleaning Wipes

(Persona series pressure bearing rollers)

After printing 250 cards, all drive wheels need to be cleaned once.
1. Remove the ribbon and card from the printer. This cleaning program also keeps the cleaning rollers clean.
2. Open the top cover of the machine.
3. Peel off a thin layer of paper on the cleaning card.
4. Press the “Pause/Resume” or “On/Cancel” button, and insert the cleaning card from the card slot (with the sticky side up). Push as far as possible into the machine until the card
is conveyed into the machine. If the cleaning card has a sticky side down, it will stick to the card tray and will not get inside the machine.
5. Keep pressing the “On/Cancel” button until the cleaning card passes through the printer. Repeat this cleaning process if necessary.

Cleaning method of driving rollers
Cleaning item use: cleaning card

Evolis A5002 or CR80

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

 

(Persona series driving rollers)

Put the cleaning rollers into your printer, the cleaning rollers will absorb the dust particles on the card during printing, which will prolong the life of your print head and improve the quality of your punching card.

Watch out for a lot of dust particles on your cleaning rollers, or clean it after every 250 cards are printed.

Note your printer model, it may have one or two cleaning rollers.

  1. Open the top cover of the machine.
  2. Remove the ribbon and printer cleaning roller from the printer.
  3. Find and remove the cleaning roller between the two ribbon drive rollers.

4. Peel off a layer of thin paper on the cleaning card, stick the cleaning card to the cleaning rollers and drag the cleaning card overturned to make it absorb the dirt and dust on the cleaning rollers to the cleaning card.

 

Evolis & Datacard Cleaning Kit

Evolis & Datacard Cleaning Kit

Evolis & Datacard Cleaning Kit

Using our years of experience selling and servicing card printers, Yousite company has put together a set of printer cleaning kits that work as well as the name-brand kits, but cost a lot less!

The cleaning kit works with several Evolis card printers, including Evolis Tattoo, Pebble, Dualys, Securion, and Quantum printers, as well as Datacard SP and SD printers including Datacard SD260, SD360, SP35, SP55, and SP75 printers.

This printer cleaning kit by Yousite includes:

Nisca Cleaning Kits

Evolis & Datacard Cleaning Kit Adhesive Cleaning Cards, Snap Swabs, Pen, and Wipes.

  • Thermal Printer Cleaning Pen – Use the precise tip on this cleaning pen to remove ink and contamination buildup on your thermal printhead.
  • Snap Swabs – Featuring spatula foam tips and a plastic reservoir filled with isopropyl alcohol, these swabs thoroughly clean your printhead.
  • IPA Cleaning Cards – Coated with isopropyl alcohol, these cards should be run through your card printer every 1,000 card prints to remove dust and debris from your card transport rollers, clearing your print path.
  • Wipes – Pre-saturated with cleaning fluid, these wipes remove debris from your paint rollers.
Evolis ACL003 Adhesive Cleaning Cards  Wide   support machine models: JVC series card printers such as CX320/CX330, CX7000, XID8300, UV900, XID9300, 580ie; Prima4, etc.
Evolis A5002 or CR80Small cleaning card Supported machine models: Zebra’s P310, P420, P330i/P430i (need to be used with large cards); DataCard’s SP35, SP30 series card printers; Evolis’ pebble3/pebble4 series card printers; Magacard’s various card types printer.
Long Sleeve Cleaning CardsLong cleaning card Supported machine models: Zebra’s P330i/P430i (need to be used with short cleaning cards) and other ZXP series card printers; MagaCard’s Enduro, Rio Pro series card printers.
Fargo 86131 Cleaning CardsLong adhesive card Supported machine models: Fargo HDP5000, HDP600, C30e, DTC, Evolis series card printers.

Zebra 105912-003 Cleaning Roller

Adhesive Cleaning Rollers

Cleaning Rollers Used for Zebra P series card printer cleaning wheel; special cleaning wheel for MAgCard; special cleaning wheel (cleaning roller) for DataCard.
How to Clean Evolis Card Printer?Advanced Cleaning Kit (full printer cleaning)
Presaturated T-cards, laminated cards, cleaning pens, presaturated cleaning wipes for the new Evolis card printers Zenius, Primacy and Elypso.
Evolis A5011 Cleaning Kits

How Long To Clean A Card Printer?

Now too many places are using the card printer, we ride the subway card when we go to the bank to withdraw money into the bank card, go to a copy shop to print something, we usually use the machine ID card, Medicare card, bus card, is a card printing machine made. So the use of the card printer friend, how often should clean a card printer?
When the card is produced, the card will inevitably with dust, after the delivery rollers transmission, the dust will remain in other parts of the transfer rollers and printer, resulting in production out of the card quality that can not be achieved. In order to solve this problem, we produce a card printer cleaning card that can be applied to different card printers, especially our cleaner production CR80 card, use range is the most extensive. As long as the card appears with fuzzy signs or the printer is not working, this time the need to take the clean clean printer.

How long to clean a card printer?

 The print head should be cleaned after every 250 copies of the printer or after changing the ribbon to ensure the printing quality. 

In card printer systems, the card printer is the key terminal device.

 Card Printer Cleaning Kits Manufacturer

Through the background program setting, the card printer can print personal information such as portrait photos, names, and units on the card surface, which can be used as identity confirmation and realize various smart application functions. The daily cleaning of the card printer is the key to ensuring its service life, which should be our great attention.

1. Types of cleaning tools 

ID Printer Cleaning Kit

  1.     Cleaning Pen.
       
  2. Cleaning Card.
       
  3. Cleaning wipes.
  4. Cleaning Swab.

2. Use of Cleaning Tools

To make your card printer work better, perform maintenance and cleaning after each roll of ribbon or 250 pages of printing. The tools in your cleaning kit can help you complete standard cleaning routines more efficiently and thoroughly. Please clean the printer properly according to the following methods. The whole cleaning process only takes a few minutes. 

• Cleaning pens soaked in 99.99% acetone alcohol.
•The cleaning card is used to clean the inside of the machine and the cleaning wheels.
• Cleaning gauze soaked in 99.99% isopropyl alcohol is used to clean the transfer rollers inside the machine.

How to clean the print head 

Cleaning items Use: Cleaning pen

IPA Printhead Cleaning Pens

IPA cleaning pens are a reusable option for cleaning thermal printheads, and each pen can be used 6 to 10 times.

 Have you noticed an unprinted line on your print card, if so, it’s time to clean your print head.

 The print head should be cleaned after every 250 copies of the printer to ensure the printing quality. 

1: Open the top cover of the printer. 
2: Use the print head cleaning pen to gently wipe the glass body of the print head several times to remove the dust accumulated on the print head. 
3: Close the top cover of the printer after cleaning. If the line persists, check the manual for further cleaning of the printer head. 

Cleaning method of driving rollers

DataCard 557668-001 - Retransfer Printer Adhesive Card

  Cleaning item usage: Cleaning card   YST-ACC-D 85×150 mm

After printing 250 cards, all driving rollers needs to be cleaned once.

 1: Remove the ribbon and card from the printer. This cleaning program also keeps the cleaning wheels clean. 
 2: Open the top cover of the machine. 
 3.: Peel off a thin layer of paper on the cleaning card. 
 4: Press the “Diapause/Resume” or “Open/Cancel” button and insert the clean card from the entry slot (adhesive side up). Push the card into the machine as far as it will go until the card is fed into the machine. If the cleaning card is face down, it will stick to the paper tray and will not get inside the machine. 
 5: Keep pressing the ON/CANCEL button until the cleaning card passes through the printer. Repeat this cleaning process if necessary.  

 Cleaning method of the pressure rollers.

Cleaning items use: cleaning wipes 

Cleaning items use: cleaning wipes

       The printer pressure rollers should be cleaned after printing each roll or 250 cards, if the surface of the printer pressure rollers looks dirty, the surface of the printer pressure wheel should be cleaned in time. Follow the steps below to clean the printer cleaning rollers.

1: Open the top cover of the printer. 
2: Remove the ribbon (and transfer the film). 
3: Locate the pressure rollers. 
4: When cleaning, press on/cancel (on/off) or pause/resume (online) to rotate the pressure wheel and wipe it with a clean wipe.  
5: Wait for the pressure rollers to dry and install the ribbon. 

Maintenance cleaning of the cleaning rollers.

 

IDP Smart Printer Cleaning Kit

Long T cleaning card, adhesive cards, cleaning swabs,Cleaning pens and cleaning wipes. Yousite – Manufacturer of high-quality card printer cleaning kits.

 Put the cleaning rollers into the printer, the cleaning rollers will absorb the dust particles on the card when printing, thus prolonging the life of the print head and improving the quality of the punched card. 
 Pay attention to whether there are a lot of dust particles on the cleaning wheel, or wash it after every 250 cards are printed. 
 Note your printer model. It may have one or two cleaning wheels. 

1: Open the top cover of the machine. 
2: Remove the ribbon and printer cleaning roller from the printer. 
3: Locate and remove the cleaning wheel between the two belt drive wheels. 
4: Tear off a thin layer of paper from the cleaning card, and stick the cleaning card on the drag cleaning card with the cleaning wheel turned over, so that the dirt and dust on the cleaning wheel are adsorbed on the cleaning card. 
 

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!

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.

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.