5. Maintenance
This is a printer that prints barcodes and characters that contain very
important information. If the functional parts are not clean, the barcod
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failure.
Therefore, you should clean the printer periodically.
Cleaning Schedule
Clean with the Oki Data cleaning kit.
The following are some hints as to when you should clean the printer.
• Thermal head and platen roller. After printing each roll or every 75
meters of paper.
• Other device. After printing every six rolls or every
paper.
Clean with the lapping film.
• After printing every six rolls or every 300 meters of paper.
• The above mentioned cleaning period is a recommendation.
Please clean the device as necessary.
Precautions before cleaning
• Turn off the power of the printer before starting to clean. Confirm
that the power is OFF before starting to clean.
• Use an applicator or cotton cloth to clean the parts.
• When you clean the device do not use tools such as a screwdriver,
which could damage the parts of the printer.
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