Industry News – Meditech

How To Clean The Zebra P330i Card Printer ?

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

After printing 1000 color cards or 5000 monochrome cards, the Zebra P330i LCD will display “cleaning printer”, and you should cleaning the printer as soon as possible to ensure good print results. Then this is a problem, how to clean the Zebra P330i card printer ?

Steps for cleaning Zebra P330i:

1.Leaving the printer on, press and hold the button for three seconds, the LCD will now display “remove ribbon then close head”,

2.Open the printer lid, and lift up the print head carriage then remove the ribbon spools and close the print head carriage. After the ribbon is removed, the LCD will display “MD feeder and press button “.

3.Open the card feeder lid and remove all but the bottom card. This card should remain in the feeder until you press the button to eject it from the printer. Do not attempt to pull the card out, or you may damage the feeder. After the card removed, the LCD will display” load cleaning card in feeder”.

4.Remove the small cleaning card from its packaging and place in the car feeder, the feeder belt will move the cleaning card halfway into the feeder. This is the correct position, do not try to force the card fully into the printer. Once the card cleans the feed belt, it will move through the printer and continue cleaning other components, the LCD will display “cleaning printer” during this process. After the cleaning card is finished, it will automatically be ejected, the LCD will then display “press button to continue”.

5.Remove the long cleaning card from its packaging, press the button and the message will change to “feed long cleaning card into exit”. Now insert the long cleaning card into the printer exit slot, the long cleaning card will automatically move back and forth as it cleans. The LCD will again display “cleaning printer” during this process.

6.Once the long cleaning card has been ejected, the LCD will change to “ready”. Now you can reinsert the ribbon spools, reload cards and resume printing if you still see spots in your cards after cleaning the printer, you may want to clean the printhead to remove deposits.

7.Before cleaning the print head, turn the printer off, lift the carriage and remove the print ribbon. Then squeeze the plastic stick on the cleaning swab to push the liquid into the tip, now gently move the moistened swap side to side across the printhead elements.

8.Wait two minutes for the print head to dry. Turn the printer back on, and reinsert the ribbon spools.

Consistent and routine cleaning of your printer will maximize print quality and prolong life of critical printer parts.

ESD Safe Swabs for Critical Environments and Clean Rooms

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

Every time we go shopping in Walmart, we can notice that there always some boxes of swabs place on the shelf before the cashier desk, and sometimes we even buy some home for various usage. That kind of swab is usually made of cotton, and has a valid name – Cotton Buds. However, there still some different swabs we may not see frequently, but not less important than the cotton buds, that’s ESD safe clean room swab.

ESD safe cleanroom swab is kind of wiping consumable that is widely used in electronics, optic- electronics, micro-electronics and semiconductor industry. The head material of the swab is either foam or non-woven fabric while the handle is usually made of polypropylene. That’s most different from the cotton bud, and it’s favored by the feature of no fiber shedding and abrasion resistant with good solvent compatibility. It is completely processed and packaged under a class of 100 air–stream cleanroom, and for a better cleanness, it’s always washed in reverse osmosis, deionized water to lower the particles and ion content.

ESD safe cleanroom swab, or also called Anti static swabs, on the other hand, it’s combustible and easily degradable. That is most important for the environmental protection. ESD safe wabs is used to clean the corner, crack, slot and other confined areas of precision parts that are static sensitive. The ESD cleanroom swab, with its unique characters, is now getting accepted by more and more people and applied in various industries.

Have you ever cleaned your card printer?

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

How often do you clean your card printer? Which brand you are using? Evolis, Magicard or Datacard ?

Do you remember when was the last time you have cleaned your card printer? If not, you should pay more attention about your printer cleaning.

Many card printers contains a cleaning system to clean card when it is printing. But the components are very easy to attract dust and debris as plastic cards have a high static charge. So if you have not cleaned your card printer regularly, it will reduce the quality of the print, resulting in fuzzy images.

It takes you just a short time and a few steps to do the cleaning job. Here are three basic steps:

1. Remove the ribbon.

2. Insert the cleaning card into the feeder.

3. Put back the ribbon.

Where do you get the printer cleaning kits? Meditech provide various of cleaning kits compatible with most hot brands in the market, such as Evolis, Magicard, Datacard, and many more. Click here for more information about Meditech cleaning kits.

How often should you clean your printer? If you are using color ribbons, it is a best time to perform a cleaning cycle when you change your ribbon. When you use monochrome ribbons, you can perform a cleaning cycle per week or per month depends on the usage frequency of printing. It is recommended to set the firmware prompt to approximately every 250 cards.

If there are unprinted lines on the card printed, you should clean the printhead. We supplies thermal printer cleaning pens and cleaning swabs to effectively clean the contaminant build-up on the printhead. If unprinted lines still exist, it may have permanent damage to your printhead.You will have to replace it.

So if you want to buy any cleaning products about card printer cleaning, such as cleaning pens, cleaning swabs, or cleaning kit, please just feel free to contact us !

Meditech Swabs – The Assurance of Cleanliness

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

With the rapid economic development, people’s requirements for cleanliness are getting higher and higher. The normal cotton buds of last decade are out of fashion for various reasons. Our company, Meditech, keeping up with the pace of the times and working on the new kinds of cleanroom swabs such as foam swabs, polyester swabs, microfiber swabs and ESD swabs.

Meditech swabs are most compatible with the world famous brand in swab industry, Texwipe. Our swabs are of the highest cleanliness and made exactly in cleanrooms, ranging from the manufacturing process to the packaging process. Meditech cleanroom swabs are widely used for precision products’ cleaning in various industries, especially estimating the contaminations in small grooved, slotted and recessed areas where other cleaning tools are difficult to get in. For the features of low NVRs and particles, durable, degradable and environment friendly, Meditech cleanroom swabs have been widely used in laser, semi-conductor, LCD and Optical, hardware and thermal printer print head cleaning etc.

Features of Meditech cleanroom swabs:
1.    Excellent absorbency and solvent holding capacity
2.    No fiber shedding and abrasion resistant with good solvent compatibility.
3.    Low NVRs(Non volatile residue) and particles, ionic content.
4.    Cleanroom laundered, free from silicone, amide and DOP.
5.    Various head materials and size offered for different industries use.

For more information of our products, please kindly visit our website: www.meditech.cc

Fiber Optic Cleaning Swab Stick FS741

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

As the Foamtec HT1003 and Texwipe TX741B Alternatives Cleaning Swab Sticks, FS741 become increasingly hotter choice for cleaning fiber optics. I have to say something about fiber optics first of all and then I will introduce you one of our best seller cleaning swab stick model FS741.
Fiber optics, the new signals transmission material, is now playing an important role in our daily life as the traditional cable and phone line are replaced by it gradually. There is no doubt that the fiber optic will totally replace the traditional transmission materials in the not too distant future. As a transmission material, the fiber optics is pure with no doubt, but the connecting parts of different fiber optics are always easy to get dirty by dust and particles. Then, the cleanness of the connecting parts becomes a critical control point to keep the fiber optics clean and ensure the transmission quality. However, the general cleaning tools are not suitable for them as there are too many confined areas and small slots in the connectors.
In the past years, people are used to cleaning fiber optics by specialized cleaning swabs, such as Foamtec HT1003, Texwipe TX741B. They have too much common features like material, size, technology, and so on. Then, that is the question, why Meditech cleaning swabs FS741 can equal with Foamtec HT1003, Texwipe TX741B ? Let me give you a detail explain.
Meditech fiber optics cleaning swab FS741 designed with a super fine seam is ideal for cleaning dust and particles from 2.5mm fiber optic ferrules and connectors, compatible with TexWipe TX741B and Foamtec HT1003. Cleanroom laundered, 3” long polypropylene handle with a flexible internal head made of 100 PPI open cell polyurethane foam that possesses high solvent capacity and good cushioning. No fiber shedding and abrasion resistant with good solvent compatibility. As most of our other swabs, FS741 is free from organic contaminants such as silicone, amide and phthalate esters. The unique features are the reasons why more and more customers from all over the world choose our company, our cleaning swabs and other cleaning products.

Common Methods of the Swab Sampling

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

(1) The sampling method of wiping, which is on the assumption that the pollutants are distributed into the surface of the equipment. When sampling, use a sampling stick whose bottom with an inert material (usually cotton or the similar) to wipe. Usually, one side of the sampling swab was pressured at the sample point and that was slowly and effectively wiped the surface of the equipment according to the first step. Then, wipe the other side of the sampling swab based on the graphical representation. The sampling point of the area is not fixed and can be changed from various types of the equipments. The usual wiping area is 10 times 10 square centimeters.
Sampling requirements:
It is required that the sampling rate of the surface sampling is known and there is no interference between sampling methods. Each device has at least 3 sampling points, each of the points are representatives.
Selection of the sampling points
Selection principle of the sampling point is: the sampling points will show the distribution of pollutants through residual quantity on the surface of the equipment which is estimated from the sampling points. Improper operation may cause unacceptable risks of related sectors or positions which include high concentration areas, areas which is difficult to clean, and so on.
(2) Rinse sampling method
It is a kind of indirect sampling method and can take samples from areas which are hard to get or sector which is difficult to remove. It is also can do an easy and unprofessional test for residue of the cleaning solution.
(3)Blank group method
Blank group method refers to produce a series of margin sample and check the residue from previous products. This method should be combined with the rinse sampling method and the sampling method of wiping. Its shortcoming is that it is hard to ensure the contaminants’ equal falling off from the surface of the device, it is laborious and expensive, and it is rarely used.
(4) Sampling and assessment of the microorganism
Microbiological assessment and chemical assessment are equally important in the enterprise strategy, which be involved in the field of the microorganism risk assessment analysis. The storage time of cleaning equipments, the storage time and conditions of cleaning equipment which have been cleaned should be taken into account. The equipment after cleaning should be without hydrops and residue in any case.

Cleaning cycle for Datacard CP40, CP60 and CP80 card printer

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

Datacard CP40, CP60, CP80 series card printer need to clean regularly. It is recommended to clean before a ribbon change or the print quality is poor. You need to prepare Meditech cleaning kits compatible with Datacard : 1 x CR80 cleaning card, 1 x cleaning sleeve. Then run the cleaning cycle as follow:
1.    Open the printer cover, remove the print ribbon cartridge and remove the cleaning roller.
2.    Remove the blank card stock from the input hopper.
3.    Open the cleaning card package and remove the cleaning card.
4.    Insert the cleaning card into the printer.
5.    Select the “Cleaning Card” option and press the “enter” button.
6.    When the cleaning cycle has been completed, replace the ribbon, and replace the cleaning sleeve, and remove the protective paper, then place it back in the printer.
7.    Close the cover and you are ready to print.
For more cleaning kits information, please visit meditech website: http://www.meditech.cc/products/card-printers-cleaning-kits/datacard-compatible-cleaning-kit/c-47/

Features of Polyester

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

Features of polyester

People may noticed the polyester swab of our cleanroom swab products, and should be curious about the material we use for the swab head. Today, I am going to show you more details about the polyester. Polyester, sometimes called as Dacron and PET, is a kind of synthetic whose manufacturing process is the simplest between the three famous synthetics. It is widely used not only for its cheaper price, but also for its various features as follows:
1.    High intensity. The strength of short fiber is 2.6-5.7 cN/dtex, and the high-strength fiber can even be 5.6-8.0 cN/dtex. Due to the low hygroscopicity, its wet strength is almost the same with dry strength. The impact resistance is 4 times higher than nylon and 20 times higher than viscose fiber.
2.    Good elasticity. Polyester’s elasticity is close to wool, even when extended more than 5%-6%, it can easily completed restored. The wrinkle resistance is better than other fibers, which means the polyester fabric do not wrinkle and has a good dimensional stability. The elastic modulus is 22-141 cN/dtex, 2-3 times higher than nylon. That’s why it is firm, durable and anti-crease.
3.    Formed by the melt-spinning method, the heat-resistant polyester fiber can be molded again, as it is a kind of thermoplastic fiber. Polyester’s melting point is high while specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity are small, that’s why the heat resistance and insulation resistance of polyester fiber is higher than other synthetics.
4.    Thermoplastic good, bad anti-fluxing. Polyester is one of the best heat-resistant fabric for its smooth surface and close internal molecular arrangement.
5.    Good wear resistance.
6.    Good lightfastness.
7.    Corrosion resistant.
8.    Poor dyeing, but good color fastness.
All of the features above made polyester a most popular fabric, that’s why we choose it to be our swab material. Polyester swab, not only for the good cleaning ability, but also for its good solvent compatibility, is getting to known by more and more people and now being an important kind of cleanroom swabs for various industries. For more information of our cleanroom swabs, please visit our website www.meditech.cc

The classification of the cleanroom swabs

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

Purification cotton is one kind of imported cotton. In fact, the cleanroom swabs is fundamentally different from imported cotton swabs. The material of imported cotton is cotton, which is unable to have the washing processing, and in the process of cleaning, the chip are likely to be scrapped. However, the cleanroom swabs whose material head is divided into sponge head and fag end, and it is processed and has the purification packaging indoors. Only washing cloth and wiping stick can meet the requirements in the high-grade environment and meet the demand of achieving 100 level above. So wiping paper and imported cotton swabs only can be used in ordinary circumstances. We can distinguish the cleanroom swabs from materials, which can be divided more detailed. There are more than two types of head material at present, which types are as follows:

1.   Fag head;
According to the materials and the use of different functions, the fag head can be divided into the following cloth:
A. knitted nylon(super wear-resistant)
B. knitted microfiber(clean the fine dust and gentle wear)
C. weaving microfiber(professional for optical fiber)
D. Weaving Dacron (The cloth is longitudinally striated and the aperture is deeper, which can accommodate more dirt.)
2.   Spongy top;
According to the density of sponge and flaky condition, it can be divided into the following two types:
A1. The opening PU sponge, which is 100 PPI (PPI – PORE PER INCH, refers to the number of holes PER INCH; the more the number it has,the more exquisite the sponge has, which is less likely to drop crumbs). The sponge density is low and chip off easily, but the speed of water absorption is fast, which is suitable for medical use;
B1. Opening PU sponge, 400-500 PPI, the sponge density is higher than 100 PPI; is less likely to drop crumbs and has high grade, which is suitable for use in electron.
3.   Non-woven wipe;
Low grade, the processing difficulty is relatively small, and the price is cheap.
4.   PVA head.
With super-strong capacity of water absorbing and high cleanliness, but the price is high.
Above are different characteristics of the cleanroom swabs.
If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by searching our website www.meditech.cc or through our telephone number 0755-28690225.

Card printer and thermal printer cleaning manual

Meditech — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:59:58 +0000

Thermal printers worked by heating up the coating on the label or melting the ink on the ribbon, it can easily build up contaminant on the printer head, lead to a poor printing. In the printing process of card printers, it will leave some ink, residue on the transfer roller and cleaning roller. So regularly clean your thermal printers and card printers can prolong the life of your printer and improve the print quantity.

There are so many items of card printers and thermal printers, if you are confused about how to choose the cleaning products, then this article may be helpful for you. Below are four category of printer cleaning products:
1.Cleaning card
It can be divided into two categories according to the usage: card printer cleaning card and thermal printer cleaning card.
card printer cleaning card include CR80 cleaning card and long cleaning card. CR80 cleaning card can be used on all card printers, ATM and POS. Long cleaning card must used on corresponded card printer item. For instance, the size of Zebra P330i T-Long card is 76*330*0.711mm. Thermal printer cleaning card is thinner and softer, it can be used on the thermal print head. You should choose it according to the width of the print head. Similarly, thermal printer cleaning card can also be used on currency counter and bill scanner.
2.Adhesive cleaning card and Adhesive cleaning roller
Many printers contains a cleaning roller to clean card before it prints. After you printing a number of card, the stickiness will reduce, you should change new adhesive cleaning roller then. The adhesive cleaning card is mainly used to cleaning the dust on the transfer roller and adhesive roller. Adhesive cleaning card and adhesive cleaning roller can only used on card printers.
3.Cleaning swab and cleaning pen
Cleaning swab and cleaning pen can be used on the print head of card printers and thermal printers. Cleaning swab is disposable and cleaning pen can use a few times, you can change the pen head if it is very dirty.
4.Cleaning wipe
Cleaning wipe is used to cleaning transfer roller and the cover of the printer. It can also be used on the thermal print head, but you have to make sure the printer is power off before cleaning.
More cleaning method and cleaning products information, please visit Meditech website: http://www.meditech.cc