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AVALON and AVALON DUO Printer USER MANUAL
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7. Cleaning your Printer
Cleaning is Important
Cleaning is Easy and Inexpensive
The Magicard Cleaning System
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The
most important thing
you can do to
ensure card print quality
and the
ongoing
reliable operation
of your printer is to
perform regular cleaning cycles
to remove dust
and debris from the print rollers.
•
Plastic cards attract dust. Dust then gets ‘printed’ into the card surface causing unsightly
blemishes and
possible damage to the printhead.
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Your Magicard printer has built-in cleaning rollers to remove dust from the card stock. These
rollers
need to be cleaned
periodically to remove the dust and debris accumulations.
There are three main parts to your printer’s cleaning system - a Cleaning Card, a Cleaning Roller and a
Cleaning Pen:
1.
You use a Cleaning Card to remove dirt from the print path. This should be used after every 250
prints (every time you replace your ribbon). If you print only a few cards a day, we recommend
that you clean the printer more often.
2.
There is a disposable Cleaning Roller in the printer, which should be replaced after every 1000
prints (roughly after using 4 rolls of ribbon).
3.
There is also a Cleaning Pen, which is used to clean the printhead. We recommend you use this if any lines are seen on
printed cards.
To clean your printer, follow the three main steps below.
If you have not already done so,
order a cleaning kit
– see the ‘Cleaning Supplies’ box on the next page.
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A clean printer produces better quality cards, as dust and dirt are not present when the card is being printed.
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A clean printer is much less likely to require factory maintenance, and the print head in your printer will last for many years
of normal use. Remember, large particles of dirt can damage the printhead.
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Magnetic encoding suffers when rollers are not clean.
