How to Clean Card Reader

How to Clean Card Reader

Card Reader card machines are designed to extract and decipher your account information contained in the magnetic stripe on your card. The mag stripe reader can become too dirty to accurately read the information, resulting in lost time from having to key the information in by hand. Plus, each card that must be keyed into the system costs the business more to process. To keep sales up and costs down, it is imperative to keep the mag strip reader on a credit card machine clean. Here’s how.

How to clean a card reader?

The cleaning and maintenance of a credit card reader are recommended by the equipment manufacturer to keep the reader in good working order and to prolong the life of the device if done properly and regularly. Your credit card readers come in all shapes and sizes, but they typically have the same type of unit inside the swipe area that has a magnetic head in the care pathway. You can use a Yousite Cleaning Card to swipe the card reader a few times. If your device integrates a smart card reader, you can insert the Cleaning Card into the slot a few times. Wait one minute to let the IPA dry, then your card reader is ready to work.

Supplies & Materials Needed

Here is a complete list of all the supplies and materials you’ll need to clean your Card Reader:

Credit Card Reader Cleaning Steps

How to clean a credit card reader

step 1.

Obtain a cloth free of lint and oil. Making sure that you are using the right cleaning medium is a must for getting the best results. The best cleaning medium to use is a chamois cloth or dollar bill or a premade cleaning card.

step 2.

Wrap the cleaning cloth around a credit card. Remove a credit or debit card from your wallet, and wrap the chamois cloth or dollar bill around the card so that it completely covers the front and rear surface of the card with a single layer of cloth.

step 3.

Swipe the card back and forth gently through the reader. Simply slide the card back and forth through the mag reader slot several times as though you were processing a credit sale. Do not push more vigorously or too quickly, or you might damage the reader.

step 4.

Attempt to run a sale transaction. See if the reader will now recognize the information on the back of your card. If not, repeat the process, except add a very small amount of isopropyl alcohol to the cloth. The reader may be dirtier than you think.

step 5.

Get a replacement. If this technique fails, the odds are you have a defective unit that must be replaced. Contact your merchant account provider for a new unit.

what to clean?

CR80 cleaning card is a common cleaning product in the industry.

cr80 cleaning card

cr80 cleaning card

The cleaning card can not only be widely used in various types of card printers and card inlets of pose machines, but also can be used in the hotel door system.

Cleaning of IC card refueling machines, automatic ticket machines, etc., have a wide range of uses, and this kind of cleaning card is simple and easy to use, easy to operate, high cleaning effect, and can effectively remove the magnetic stripe of the machine equipment card reader The dust on the surface is dirty, reducing the frequency of equipment failure and prolonging the service life of the machine.

How to use: Tear open the notch of the packaging bag, take out the cleaning card, insert it into the slot of the card reader, and then enter the automatic cleaning state;

Application range: all card readers, card printers, ATM/POS terminals, key card readers, etc.;

Why Clean?

Cleaning your Card Reader is one of the most important steps you can take to protect your printer from damage – it removes dirt, dust, and debris that could harm the sensitive electronics and moving parts within the printer. Cleaning your point-of-sale and self-checkout hardware regularly can help protect your employees and customers from contracting contagious diseases and keep them from spreading these diseases to their loved ones when they leave the store. And it can save you money since printer repairs can be costly and take time.

  • Protect your customers from any possible infections;
  • Protect and improve your business image, as no one wants to touch dirty card readers;
  • No one wants to touch dirty card readers.
  • Keep your employees healthy and less likely to take days off;
  • Provide your customers with a safe shopping experience;
  • Extend the lifespan of your POS equipment;
  • Prevent cross-contamination among all of your customer-facing terminals and other shared physical touchpoints between your employees and your customers;
  • Contribute to the fight against COVID-19;
  • Increase the performance of your POS equipment, especially when debris and grease slower or impact its use;

Card Reader Cleaning Card For All Card Readers, ATM/POS/Door Lock and Card Printers

Thermal ID Card Printer Cleaning Cards

Maintain Optimal Performance with Professional Cleaning Cards!

In today’s fast-paced world, card printers, ATMs, card readers, and other devices have become essential in various industries. However, over time, dust, debris, magnetic oxides, and other contaminants inevitably accumulate inside these machines. This buildup can degrade image quality, damage sensitive components like printheads and reader heads, and shorten the lifespan of your equipment. Regular cleaning is the key to maintaining optimal performance and extending the life of these devices.

Why Choose Our Cleaning Cards?

Our Thermal ID Card Printer Cleaning Cards, ATM Cleaning Cards, and Card Reader/Encoder Cleaning Cards are specifically designed for efficient, non-damaging cleaning of your devices. These cleaning cards not only help to remove contaminants from the internal components but also protect sensitive parts, ensuring your devices continue to operate smoothly, with high-quality output and maximum longevity.

1. Thermal ID Card Printer Cleaning Cards 

For use with: ID Card Printers, Thermal Printers
Product Benefits:

  • Superior Absorbency: Made from a blend of spunlace, polyester, cellulose, and PVC, these cleaning cards offer better absorbency compared to 100% cleaning cards.
  • Effective Cleaning: Efficiently removes dust, oil, and residues from thermal printers to protect the printhead and prevent image quality degradation.
  • Electronic-Grade IPA: Contains electronic-grade isopropyl alcohol for safe and effective cleaning without leaving residues.
  • Convenient to Use: Simply insert the card into the device and swipe to clean.
  • Protective Packaging: Aluminum foil packaging ensures tight sealing and extends the shelf life of the cards.
Video: How to clean the Magicard Enduro Pronto ID card printer ?

With the use of Magicard specialized cleaning cards, internal printer rollers are effectively cleared of dust, debris, and residual substances, improving print quality and the stability of automatic card feeding. Operating the cleaning card is straightforward, following these steps


2. ATM / Card Reader / Encoder Cleaning Cards

For use with: ATMs, POS Terminals, Credit Card Readers, Card Encoders
Product Benefits:

  • Powerful Cleaning Action: Specially designed to clean magnetic heads and optical sensors, removing dust, magnetic oxides, and other contaminants from card readers.
  • Strong Adhesive: These cards have a strong adhesive surface that ensures effective cleaning without leaving any residue behind.
  • Contaminant-Free: Made with electronic-grade IPA to ensure no contaminants are left behind, keeping your devices clean and well-maintained.
  • Versatile Application: These cleaning cards are suitable for ATMs, vending machines, hotel door locks, gas station equipment, and other devices that rely on magnetic and optical heads.

Applications:

  • Credit Card Readers
  • Vending Machines
  • ATM / POS Terminals
  • Hotel Door Locks
  • Gas Station Equipment
  • Pay Phones
  • And more devices with magnetic or optical readers

CR80 Cleaning Cards(10PCS, 67330070)


3. Card Reader/Encoder Cleaning Cards

For use with: All types of card readers and encoders
Product Benefits:

  • Double-Sided Pre-Saturated Cards: Designed to remove all forms of dust, lint, magnetic oxides, and other contaminants from card readers and encoders, ensuring a clean and accurate reading process.
  • Non-Abrasive: These cleaning cards are made from non-abrasive materials, ensuring they won’t damage delicate components like printheads and reader heads.
  • Easy to Use: Simply swipe the card through the reader or encoder to effectively clean the heads.
  • Safe and Efficient: Contain IPA to effectively clean without leaving any residue or damaging sensitive parts of the device.

Why Choose Us?

  • Efficient Cleaning: Yousuto cleaning cards are made from high-performance blended materials, combining spunlace, polyester, cellulose, and PVC, offering superior absorbency and cleaning effectiveness.
  • Safe Formula: We use electronic-grade IPA in all our cleaning cards, ensuring that the cleaning process is safe, effective, and residue-free.
  • Strong Adhesion: The strong adhesive properties ensure that debris is effectively removed without leaving contaminants behind.
  • Eco-Friendly and Safe: All our cleaning cards go through rigorous testing to ensure they are free from harmful substances and safe for use with sensitive equipment.
  • Cost-Effective: We offer cards in convenient packaging that helps you save on maintenance costs while ensuring your equipment runs smoothly for a longer time.

Wide Applications, Professional Quality

Our cleaning cards are used in a variety of industries and applications, including:

  • Credit Card Readers
  • Vending Machines
  • ATM / POS Terminals
  • Hotel Door Locks
  • Gas Station Equipment
  • Pay Phones
  • And many other devices with magnetic or optical reader heads.

No matter whether you’re in the financial sector, retail, hospitality, or working with self-service kiosks and POS terminals, our cleaning cards provide professional cleaning to keep your equipment functioning optimally and reliably.


Product Description

Product Name
ID Card Printers Cleaning Card CR80 Cleaning Card
P/N
CR80 cleaning card
Size
85mm x 54mm x 0.711mm
Package
50pcs/bag, 50bags/carton

We have 3 cleaing cards:ATM cleaning cards,card reader/encoder cleaning card;printer cleaning card

Choose Our Cleaning Cards Today to Protect Your Equipment and Extend Its Lifespan!

By using our cleaning cards regularly, you can ensure that your equipment operates at its best, avoiding costly repairs, improving performance, and reducing downtime. Keep your devices clean, efficient, and long-lasting with our reliable cleaning solutions.

How to Clean Hotel Type Card Reader Locks

Ic card reader cleaning card hotel door locks are fast and effective. Presaturated cleaning cards are an economical way to maintain your readers and improve head life.

Choose us for professional cleaning, effective protection, and longer device life!

10PCS Head Cleaner Cleaning Card for Magnetic Stripe Reader

10PCS Head Cleaner Cleaning Card for Magnetic Stripe Reader

Functions and Benefits: This double-sided pre-saturated cleaning card is created to securely and efficiently get rid of all dust, dust, ink, magentic oxide and other pollutants that build on magnetic heads of various sorts of visitors.

Card Reader Cleaning Card For All Card Readers, ATM/POS/Door Lock and Card Printers

This Generic CR80 Card Reader Cleaning Card is designed to safely and effectively remove all dirt, magnetic oxides, oils, and lotions.

The cleansing cards are created of 45% wood pulp and also 55% polyester, the wood pulp has outstanding absorbency and can slow down the dissipation of IPA.

It is soaked with a 99.9% IPA remedy that properly gets rid of ink, debris, and deposit build-up on card printer transfer rollers.

The plastic handle of the IPA-soaked swab is full of 99.9% IPA remedy, and it can be used according to the cleansing procedure guide.

Instructions:

1. Tear open the bag and obtain the cleansing card.

2. Swipe the cleaning card via the card reader several times, after that turn it around and also repeat again.

3. Eliminate the card.

4. Repeat the above actions if needed.

Advised Usage:

1. As soon as per day for outside or high-usage card viewers.
2. As soon as each week for inner or low-usage card viewers. Warning: Flammable. Shut out of reach of children. Avoid eyes.

Dimension:3.34″ X2.12″ (85.8 mm X 54mm).

Active Component: Isopropyl alcohol.

Advised for:

All Card Visitors Swipe Atm Machines POS Terminals Access Control Units Hotel Door Locks Pay at the Pump PVC Card Printers Several Other Applications.

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!

POS/ATM Machine CR80 Cleaning Card

Cleaning Card For Cash Register, ATM and POS Machine

Cleaning cards for cash register, ATM, and POS machine

POS/ATM Machine CR80 Cleaning Card

CR80  is a disposable presurated cleaning card that has been specially designed for removing dirt, magnetic oxides and other contaminants from concealed magnetic heads and optic sensors.

Cleaning card for cash register, ATM and POS machine cleaning card for cash register, ATM and POS machine cleaning card for cash register, ATM and POS machine

Applications: All Card Readers ATM/POS Terminals Petroleum Pump Time/Badge Slot/Vending Optical/Barcode Smart Card we also do customized manufacturing based on your demands we can supply almost all ATMs.

For all needs of ATM Modules, Spare Parts, Consumables, and Upgrades maintenance of technical services, the China warehouse with a large number of spot prices and competitiveness. please contact with us.