User's Manual

Confidential – API Healthcare Corporation Parts Maintenance

Chapter 7

PARTS MAINTENANCE

CLEANING/SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE

To ensure trouble-free operation, the following procedures provides for proper operation and adequate air-flow.

READHEAD-MAGNETIC

Frequency: At least once a month under ideal conditions. Perform more often if the reader is subject to high

concentrations of airborne particles (i.e. grease or dust), or has a greater than average use.

Materials: Magnetic Cleaning card Important: Never reuse a cleaning card.

Compressed air

1. Using the compressed air, blow out the entire length of the card slot area to remove any loose particles.

2. Open the cleaning card package. Remove the cleaning card and immediately swipe through the vertical

slot with the wet side facing to the right, away from the display window.

3. Swipe the cleaning card through the badge slot several times (10 or more) to clean the read head. A

noticeable dark stripe on the active surface indicates an extremely dirty read head. This indicates cleaning

should be performed more often.

4. Allow the cleaning card to dry. When dry, rotate it 180 degrees to present a clean surface to the read head.

Swipe the cleaning card through the slot.

5. Swipe the cleaning card to burnish the read head. Examine the card. If the cleaning card appears extremely

dirty (dark streaks or blotches) repeat the cleaning process stated above using a new cleaning card.

READ HEAD - BAR CODE

Frequency: At least once a month under ideal conditions. Perform more often if the reader is subject to high

concentrations of airborne particles (i.e. grease or dust), or has a greater than average use.

Materials: Bar Code Cleaning card Important: Never reuse a cleaning card.

Cleaning solution (supplied with cards, equivalent to isopropyl alcohol)

Compressed air

1. Using the compressed air, blow out the entire length of the card slot area to remove any loose particles.

2. Dampen the cleaning card with the cleaning solution.

3. Swipe the cleaning card through the badge slot several times (10 or more).