No one likes paper jams or paper feed issues, so why is it that you must purchase a new printer every 18 months or thereabouts after heavy use, while colleagues manage to keep their machines working for six or seven years? The answer may be found in their understanding of printer maintenance. Orange county has several outlets where you can purchase printer maintenance kits for your printer, to stretch a longer lifespan.
What Is a Printer Maintenance Kit?
Your printer has a variety of moving parts and these work hard every time a sheet of paper is passed through the machine and printed on. In time, some of the transfer rollers or pickup rollers begin to degrade. This means that the paper may not run smoothly and this can lead to marks on your paper, paper jams and other problems. On occasions the separation pads fail to work sufficiently well and this can lead to multi-sheet feed issues.
Printers Don’t Need to Cause You Problems
You wouldn’t let your vehicle go beyond an arranged maintenance date and the same goes for your HVAC system and your lawnmower, so why do we treat printers so poorly? Just adding a little time into your schedule, regularly, and noting that in your diary, will give you the opportunity to keep your printer running in perfect condition.
Cleaning Your Printer
You’ve seen the dust that lands on your carpet or wooden flooring; that same mess is floating through the air and landing in and around your printer.
Before you begin to clean your printer, make sure it has had time to cool down after use, because you can burn your fingers on some items inside the printer. Don’t just turn the printer off when you complete your printer maintenance, remove the plug from the socket to ensure it is completely free of electricity when you open it up.
The printer manual will show you which elements you can clean and which you should leave alone. When you’ve noticed that the print is beginning to fade or missing parts and you know the ink or toner is full, it’s time to clean the printer heads.
Another detailed look at the manual will inform you if this is something that you can instruct the printer to do itself or whether you need to remove dust and other particles with a cotton swab and purified water. Do carefully read the manual because it may instruct you not use a cotton swab in some areas of the machine.
Instruct everyone who uses your printer, that when a paper jam occurs, that you do not tug out the paper as fast as possible. This will put unnecessary wear on the parts of your printer that are carefully holding the paper in place. It is better to gradually and uniformly remove the paper by pulling slowly.
By using good quality paper, you will reduce the amount of paper jams. To be able to clean the rollers or replace them when they become worn out, make sure you invest in that kit for printer maintenance. Orange county suppliers can deliver a kit to you the same or following working day.