Zebra Technologies P720 Printer And Laminator Cleaning Cycles, 4 1 Cleaning Printhead only

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P720 Plastic Card Printer

Dual-sided Lamination

PRINTER AND LAMINATOR CLEANING CYCLES

Routine printer and laminator cleaning is recommended to maintain high print quality, ensure proper magnetic encoding, and maintain reliability of laminator. The printer is equipped to automatically notify user to when to clean printer or user can manually select to clean printer (more frequent cleaning is preferred when printer is used in a environment exposed to high amounts of dust and debris).

Automatic Cleaning:

The printer will automatically notify you when the cleaning counter reaches the manufacturer’s selected limit (panels printed counter over 4000, 1,000 cards using YMCK), the READY message will be replaced by a cleaning message to prompt you to clean printer.

Manually Selected Cleaning:

You can also manually select to clean printer by pressing the Left Panel button until LCD screen shows “Cleaning Menu.” Press the Right Panel button to select option. Press button again to begin cleaning process.

Cleaning cycles can also be done through the Escape command.

Four types of cleaning cycles are available to clean your P720. 4•1 Cleaning the Printhead

4•2 Clean the Magnetic Encoder Only (optional item) 4•3 Clean the Laminator Only

4•4 Clean Complete P720 (all steps) 4•5 Card Cleaning Cratridge

NOTE: In the event of a patch or card jam in the laminator hot roller area, the lamination rollers stop and the lami- nator temperature is automatically shut off. An error message will appear on the LCD. You will have to remove the upper cassette, remove the top roller bracket, then remove the melted card or bad patch. It is better to remove these types of errors when the laminator rollers are still warm. Be careful when touching hot surface of laminator. Remove any debris that still remains.

4 • 1 Cleaning Printhead only

Your P720 Printer includes a simple cleaning system using the Pre-Satured Cleaning Cards provided.The regular use of these cards will clean and maintain important parts of your printer that cannot be reached: including the Print Head, the Lamination station and Transport Rollers.

WHEN TO CLEAN

When the LCD screen reports messages: ”Cleaning Printer”.

HOW TO CLEAN

• Leave power on.

Open Cover and release Print Head Bracket to remove ribbon.

Close Print Head Bracket

Close Cover. Remove cards from Card Feeder.

•Insert one Pre-Saturated Cleaning Card (provided) through slot on the side of the Card feeder Cover.

•Press the right panel button for a few seconds. The card will feed into printer and carry out the cleaning process. repeat the process with a new Cleaning card if necessary.