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Regular maintenance of bar code printers
(1) bar code print head cleaning
Once you have finished printing a roll of ribbon, you should clean the bar code printheads, which can maintain print quality, reduce the number of bar code printer repairs, and extend the life of the bar code printheads.
Turn off the bar code printer power, turn the bar code print head up, remove the ribbon, label the paper, with a little bar code printing head cleaning liquid cotton swab (or cotton), light rub bar print head until clean. Then wipe the bar print head with a clean cotton swab.
(2) clean the drum
After cleaning the bar code printheads, clean the rollers with a cotton swab (or cotton) with a little 75% alcohol. Method is to turn the drum by hand, while scrubbing, to be clean, dry. The cleaning interval of the above two steps is generally three days, if the bar code printer is used frequently, preferably once a day.
(3) cleaning of the drive system and cleaning inside the chassis
Because the general label paper for the stickers, the glue is easy to stick in the drive shaft and channel, coupled with dust, a direct impact on the printing effect, it is often clean. Usually once a week, by using a cotton swab (or cotton) soaked in the various shafts, the surface of the channel and the dust inside the chassis, clean, dry.
(4) sensor cleaning
The sensor includes a ribbon sensor and a label sensor, the location of which is described in the instruction manual. It is usually cleaned once a month to three months by blowing the dust on the sensor with a blower (suction).
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