Preventative Maintenance


Cleaning cards and wipes support your preventative maintenance program. Did you know that more than 80% of printer and card reader failures are linked to poor maintenance? The hidden costs of poor mainenance include lost production, customer dissatisfaction, frequent service calls, and premature equipment replacement. With cleaning cards and wipes, it couldn't be easier for busy operators to keep up with their company's scheduled maintenance program. Cleaning cards and wipes should be tested and approved by OEMs, offer dependable performance and consistent quality.
Recommended cleaning cards are manufactured to precise specifications using approved materials and contain 99.9% isopropyl alcohol.
To see for yourself how cleaning cards can benefit your company, contact CardPOS Europe for free samples and more information.


Keep Thermal Print Heads Clean!
In barcode printers, one of the main causes of early print head failure is a build up of label residue, adhesive, and other contaminants, such as grease . This creates a baked-on coating that prevents the heat produced by the print head dots from penetrating. This trapped heat burns out the print head dots. With bar code thermal printers, failure of only two dots can leave the print head useless.

End user maintenance has a powerful and direct effect on the life of a print head. According to a leading thermal printer manufacturer, a maintenance program can decrease print head failure by up to 80% if scheduled regularly. In addition to guarding against failure, cleaning print heads on a regular basis helps prevent or get rid of repetitive voids in bar code images.

Cleaning should be easy and convenient for operators and scheduled at consistent intervals (e.g. when you change ticket or label stock). CardPOS Europe provides three presaturated products to clean thermal print heads: the Thermal Printer Cleaning Card, the Thermal Printer Cleaning Pen, and Self-Saturating Swabs. The idea behind presaturated cleaning products is simple: the easier it is for operators to clean print heads, the more likely they will do it regularly.

Improving Reader Performance!
Regular use of presaturated cleaning cards makes magnetic card reading equipment perform better and last longer. Passing a magnetic stripe card over a dirty read head causes damage to the card and to the reader head. In a dirty manufacturing environment, badges may last only a few hundred operations. By improving the card reader performance, workers on the factory floor can focus on their jobs, rather than data entry. In the retail sector, a major retailer reduced the rate of failure of its magnetic stripe readers by 50% with regular use of cleaning cards. Customers are less likely to experience annoying delays at the point of sale when readers work well.

Double-sided cleaning cards for magnetic card readers provide a one pass cleaning solution. These cards are made with compressible fibers for better cleaning performance. They contain enough cleaning solution to clean magnetic read heads, tracks, and rollers in a single pass. The disposable cards ensure contaminants will not be re-introduced to the readers. And, as cleaning products are convenient and easy to use, employees will find it simple to carry out a preventative maintenance program.

As you can see, cleaning cards benefit applications ranging from banking to automatic credit/debit card readers such as ATM's, Vending Machines etc. In addition to standard CR80 credit card sizes, CR50 cleaning cards are also available. CardPOS Europe also has 10mm cleaning cards for transit and parking control applications and special magnetic-encoded cleaning cards for ATMs with entry gates. Using top-quality cleaning cards saves your company money that would otherwise be spent on repairing the reader or replacing it altogether.

Prevent Costly Repairs of Bank-Note Validators!
Most vending machines are equipped with bank note readers and/or debit card readers that need preventative maintenance. Over 80% of banknote or debit card reader failures are linked to poor maintenance. Contaminants brought into the equipment by bank-notes, debit cards, and environmental conditions damage the read heads, belts, and rollers. The not-so-hidden costs of neglect include currency rejection, lost sales, customer dissatisfaction, frequent service calls, and early equipment failure.

What can you do to reduce the risk of damage to your equipment?
Establish a cleaning program using a product designed specifically for your machinery. Cleaning should be convenient for operators and scheduled at consistent intervals (e.g. when you service your equipment) This does not replace the scheduled service checks that equipment needs, but it will greatly reduce unexpected and unproductive downtime.

The WonderCard™, a newly developed Banknote reader cleaning card, is now available. This universal cleaning card works on ALL banknote readers, including but not limited to, Ardac, Coinco, CBV's, Mars, and Rowe units. Not only does the WonderCard™ work on all readers, its price can't be beat. So keep the money flowing through your equipment while saving money to keep it clean.

The presaturated magnetic stripe reader cleaning card is specially designed for toll and transit systems, the vending industry, and institutional use. The double-sided cleaning card cleans the read head AND the entire track of a magnetic stripe reader in one simple pass.

Both of these cards make it easy to follow a regular maintenance schedule. You will increase profits, extend the life of your equipment, and ensure optimal performance.