ImageCard/UltraGrafix (Express and Select Classes) User’s Guide
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Cleaning the magnetic stripe head
The printer's magnetic stripe head should be cleaned whenever you receive
multiple read errors or rejected cards while attempting to encode a magnetic
stripe. Generally, you should clean the magnetic stripe head once every 2000
cards. Use the magnetic stripe head cleaning card (part number 590408-002;
see Figure 3:-15) to do this.
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Figure 3:-15 Magnetic stripe head cleaning card
Clean the magnetic stripe head
!
Do not peel off the strip on the back of the card. Unlike some other
cleaning cards, the magnetic stripe cleaning card does not use an
adhesive to clean. The strip is the part of the card that cleans the
magnetic stripe head.
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Figure 3:-16 Strip on back of magnetic stripe cleaning card
1.
Insert a magnetic stripe head cleaning card into the exception card
slot. (You can also remove the card cartridge and insert a card
directly between the input card rollers.)
2.
Open the status monitor window. To do this, either double-click on
the status monitor icon in the lower right corner of the screen, or
right-click on the status monitor icon and then select Display status
from the popup menu. The printer status dialog box in See Figure
3:-
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appears.
3.
Click on the Clean mag stripe button (see Figure
3:-17
).
