Over 80% of
printer and reader failures are linked to poor maintenance. The
not-so-hidden costs of neglect include lost production, customer
dissatisfaction, frequent service calls, and premature equipment
replacement.
End user
maintenance has a direct and dramatic effect on the productive life of a
print head According to a leading therm
program can decrease print head failures by 80%. In addition
to guarding against dot failure, cleaning Print heads on a regular basis
helps prevent or eliminate repetitive voids Improve
Reader Performance!
Regular use of the right cleaner product makes your magnetic stripe
equipment last longer and perform better. Passing a magnetic stripe card
over a dirty read head damages the card and the head itself. In a dirty
manufacturing environment, badges may only last a few hundred
transmissions. By improving reader performance, workers on the factory
floor can focus on their jobs, rather than data entry. In the retail
sector, a major retailer reduced the failure rate of its magnetic stripe
readers by 50% with the regular use of cleaning cards. Customers are
less likely to experience annoying delays at the point of sale when
readers work well.
In
bar code printers, the main cause of premature print head failure is a
buildup of adhesive, label residue and other contaminants. This creates
a baked-on coating that heat produced by the dots on the print head
cannot penetrate. The trapped heat burns out the dots. With bar code
thermal printers, failure of only two dots can render the print head
useless.
Cleaning
should be convenient for operators and scheduled at consistent intervals
(for example, when you change label or ticket stock). There are many
different cleaning cards out there, but the concept behind presaturated
cleaning supplies is simple: the easier it is for operators to clean
Print heads, the more likely it is they will do it regularly.
So now that
you realize the importance of cleaning your POS system, which card or
system should you buy? Double-sided presaturated cleaning cards for
magnetic stripe card readers provide a one-pass cleaning solution. These
cards are made with compressible fibers for superior cleaning
performance. They contain enough cleaning solution to clean magnetic
read heads, tracks, and rollers in one pass. The disposable cards ensure
contaminants will not be reintroduced into the readers. And since
presaturated products are convenient to use, your employees will find it
easy to carry out a preventative maintenance program.
We
recommend Waffletechnology™ The concept behind Waffletechnology™ is very
simple: achieve complete access to critical components within the
equipment. Because optical lenses are rounded and most sensors are
recessed, access cannot be achieved through the use of flat cleaning
cards. The solution is very simple: design a card that is not flat.
Waffletechnology™ cleaning cards incorporate flexible, raised platforms
on their top and bottom surfaces. These cleaning platforms are
essentially spring-loaded, significantly increasing the pressure applied
to the internal components as the card passes through the mechanism. Not
only is cleaning pressure increased, but the platforms actually spring
up into surface cavities to clean recessed sensors. Additionally, the
leading and trailing surfaces of rounded optical lenses are effectively
cleaned. Flat cards do not touch recessed sensors and, at best, only
come into contact with the convex tip of a rounded optical lens. As the
card is accepted into the mechanism and as it is dispensed by the
mechanism, it is cleaning all surfaces.
