The Proper Way Of Cleaning The Printheads

By Jerry Hughes


As the world have been totally exposed to modernization, almost all of the things that are suppose to be manually done are given an electronic way of finishing it. Perfect example are those paper works that used to be all handwritten and time consuming whether for office workers or students. But, now there were printers that are useful to make it all easy to accomplish just a few clicks and the documents needed are well organized and finished. For a printer to provide an excellent printing quality, it should have a great videojet printhead.

This technology that is assembled inside a printing model does not only give a better output for printing and coding but it also prevent some problems from occurring. To name a few are those unexpected paper jams, web jams, label slippage and more. This things can be a a major inconvenient and is a waste of time.

The component that was mentioned also can affect the printing time and how fast it would take to finish everything. Because of the pressure that it is regulating automatically, it apparently makes the operation be on its peek and even have it optimized. Because of these advantages a printhead provide, it became very important for printer owners to learn how maintaining them to lengthen the longevity even more.

The cleaning of printheads are done at least once every week. It should be in a careful manner so that diluting the ink system from those excess cleaning fluids that were used can be avoided. One thing to always remember is that during shutdowns, do not clean the printhead.

The reason of which is it would allow the cap of ink to dry at the very end of the nozzle. Its ink cap is actually what prevents the clogging on the nozzle, this blocks any air from going inside the nozzle. During shutdown, this will not be working like this and there lies the possibility of dry ink from clogging.

However, to proceed into the weekly cleaning and maintenance, safety must not be neglected. Thus, to prevent any hazard to the body and properties it should be double checked if the AC power of printer is turned off. The power and compressed air supply should also be unplugged from the wall socket so there are no live electricity.

Now, go ahead and find the screw that are holding the printhead cover on its place. Once that was already located, grab a screwdriver to have it loosen and unscrewed, that should let the sliding printhead out of its cover, remove it completely.

Then proceed to inspecting for dried particles as well as ink that is on the surface of nozzle and charge tunnel. This time, the next step would be grounding printhead. Place it on a downward position on a grounded service tray then flush all those accumulated particles around it using a videojet cleaning solution.

If everything is cleaned and neat, let it dry. Never use tissue paper nor clothing to dry it completely. Now, right before assembling everything back to normal, neat up the covers too.




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