If you have just obtained a Fargo ID printer to make your employee or staff identification cards, you are probably busy designing your card and printing the first test prints. Working with badges is interesting. You can make badges unique to your organization and you may even want to have different badge designs distinguishing levels within your organization.
The Fargo printer is similar in many ways to your office laser or inkjet printer. The printer can often fit on a desktop. It can print from any software program on your Windows printer.
An importance difference in ID card printers vs other office printers is that the ID badge printer requires a clean environment to continue to print clear, colorful cards. The professional quality ID card printer does require a cleaning on a routine basis to ensure that the internal printer components are free of dust, dirty and oils from hands.
To keep the Fargo card printer clean, follow the steps below to ensure your printer is cleaned correctly.
PRINTHEAD CLEANING RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Open the front cover of the printer.
2. Remove the printer ribbon.
3. Find the cleaning swab for the print head. Squeeze the cleaning swab to saturate the tip of the swab with alcohol.
4. Gently rub the swab back and forth over the length of the print head.
5. When the print head is completely dry, return the printer to the ribbon spindles and close the front cover.
CLEANING THE PLATEN AND CARD FEED ROLLERS
1. Open the printer front cover and remove the print ribbon.
2. Carefully remove the unprinted cards from the printer’s input hopper. Make sure you do not touch the surface of your cards with your fingers.
3. Use the cleaning card from the cleaning kit and remove the adhesive backing from both sides of the card.
4. Insert the cleaning card into the single feed card slot until the card stops.
5. From your computer, open the printer driver and select “printing preferences.”
6. Click on the “clean printer” button.
7. Click on the “clean” button.
When the “clean” button is pushed, the ID card printer will pull in the cleaning card and complete and automated cleaning process set up in the system.
CLEANING THE PRINTER EXTERIOR
To keep the outside of the printer clean, use a cleaning pad from your cleaning kit. Remove dirt and dust from the printer to keep the exterior of the ID card printer clean.
Cleaning the printer on a consistent basis is one of the best things you can do from your printer. By following the above steps at a recommended 1,000 cards printed, you will find that the ID card printer system including the printer and ID card software will remain printing your needed cards time after time. Some printer models may have additional or different recommended procedures. If so, please follow the appropriate operations manual from your printer model.
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