Team NiSCA Takes the Guesswork Out of Plastic Card Printer Cleaning and Maintenance

5-27-2010

Team NiSCA, a global leader in the plastic ID card printer industry, today announced a new functionality for NiSCA’s 32 and 64-bit drivers that will help users maintain a smoothly running plastic ID card printer.

New reminder messages in the NiSCA Status Monitor take the guesswork out of when to clean the printer as well as when to replace the rollers.

When the cleaning count is within 100 cards of the next cleaning, the status monitor displays a YELLOW warning when the printer is idle. The message says, ‘CLEAN ROLLERS’ (200 cards of the next replacement and message says, ‘REPLACE ROLLERS’).

When the cleaning count is within 25 cards of the next cleaning (or replacement), the status monitor displays a RED warning when the printer is idle. When the count hits 0, the status monitor continues showing the RED message but a message box is also displayed (as well as for the roller replacement). If the user presses Cancel, the dialog is closed and will reappear in 30 minutes. The most important thing an end-user can do to ensure ID card print quality and the ongoing reliable operation of a NiSCA plastic card printer is to perform regular cleaning cycles to remove dust and debris from the print rollers. Plastic cards attract dust. Dust then gets ‘printed’ into the card surface causing unsightly blemishes and possible damage to the print head.

“Regular use of NiSCA cleaning cards will keep your NiSCA printer clean and maintain important parts of the printer (print head, transport rollers and magnetic encoder station),” says Rob Miskelly, Business Manager of Team NiSCA. “Clean printers mean better image quality and longer lasting print heads.”

In addition, next cleaning/replacement counts now appear at the end of the list in the Printer Information dialog. And, after the cleaning is completed, the driver will auto-reset the ribbon count to zero.

About Team NiSCA

NiSCA has been in the plastic card marketplace since 1994 and delivers reliable solutions to corporations, schools, states and countries. Team NiSCA – the sales, service and marketing arm of NiSCA – is a business unit of KG Digital who is a subsidiary of the Kanematsu Corporation, one of the oldest trading companies in Japan. Founded in 1889, Kanematsu’s major business areas include IT related products, electronics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, specialty steels, grains, foodstuffs and aerospace. Team NiSCA is headquartered in Somerset, NJ USA.

The 32 and 64-bit windows drivers for the PR53XX printers include the NEW cleaning reminder functionality.