110Routine Maintenance

Cleaning Schedule and Procedures

Cleaning Schedule and Procedures

Routine preventive maintenance is a crucial part of normal printer operation. By taking good care of your printer, you can minimize the potential problems that you might have with it and help to achieve and to maintain your standards for print quality.

Over time, the movement of media or ribbon across the printhead wears through the protective ceramic coating, exposing and eventually damaging the print elements (dots). To avoid abrasion:

•Clean the printhead frequently.

•Minimize printhead pressure and burn temperature (darkness) settings by optimizing the balance between the two.

•When using Thermal Transfer mode, ensure that the ribbon is as wide or wider than the media to prevent exposing the printhead elements to the more abrasive label material.

Important • Zebra is not responsible for damage caused by the use of cleaning fluids on this printer.

Specific cleaning procedures are provided on the following pages. Table 13 shows the recommended cleaning schedule. These intervals are intended as guidelines only. You may have to clean more often, depending upon your application and media.

 

 

 

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Table 13 • Recommended Cleaning Schedule

 

 

 

 

Area

 

Method

Interval

 

 

 

 

Printhead

 

Solvent*

Direct Thermal Mode: After every roll of

 

 

 

media (or 500 feet of fanfold media).

Platen roller

 

Solvent*

 

Thermal Transfer Mode: After every roll of

 

 

 

Media sensors

Air blow

ribbon.

 

 

 

Ribbon sensor

Air blow

 

 

 

 

 

Media path

 

Solvent*

 

 

 

 

 

Ribbon path

 

Solvent*

 

 

 

 

Pinch roller (part of Peel-Off option)

Solvent*

 

 

 

 

 

Cutter

If cutting continuous,

Solvent*

After every roll of media (or more often,

module

pressure-sensitive media

 

depending upon your application and media).

 

 

 

 

 

If cutting tag stock or label

Solvent* and

After every two or three rolls of media.

 

liner material

air blow

 

 

 

 

 

Tear-off/peel-off bar

Solvent*

Once a month.

 

 

 

Take-label sensor

Air blow

Once every six months.

 

 

 

 

*Zebra recommends using Preventive Maintenance Kit (part number 47362). In place of this kit, you may use a clean swab dipped in a solution of isopropyl alcohol (minimum 90%) and deionized water (maximum 10%).

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