How to maintain a DTF printer?

With the progress of the times, the fabric printer has become one of the indispensable auxiliary tools for people to work from home. For the printer to function better, daily maintenance and maintenance must be indispensable. DTF printer is the preferred printing product for many home users, and its daily maintenance is very important.

Here is the content list:

l Develop a good habit of shutting down

l Tips for storing ink cartridges

l Do not clean the print head frequently

Develop a good habit of shutting down

The panel of a home DTF printer is generally very simple, usually with only one or two buttons, and some even without it. The functions of these buttons are nothing more than switching the power on and off and starting the print self-test steps. After a long time of use, many users start to be lazy, often too lazy to press the power button to turn off the printer, either directly unplug the power plug or turn off the power strip switch. As everyone knows, doing so is often detrimental and unhelpful. Because after we shut down normally, the t-shirt printer will automatically reset the print head and put a "cap" on the ink cartridge to prevent the ink from evaporating. With the "forced" shutdown method such as pulling the power plug, the print head is often too late to reset, and the top cannot cover the ink cartridge. Therefore, it is very easy to cause the positioning failure of the print head, the ink is also easy to volatilize, and the viscous ink may also block the print nozzles. As a result, the life of the ink cartridges is reduced, and the chance of printer failures increases. Therefore, we must develop the correct shutdown habits.

Tips for storing ink cartridges

In the DTF printer, ink cartridges are the most important consumables. If we want to reduce printing costs, we must start with ink cartridges. Since most home users do not use the DTF printer very often, and the amount of printing at one time is not large, the digital printing machine is always used for some time, and then idle for some time. How do effectively save the opened ink cartridges? We should carefully open the plastic cover when unpacking the new ink cartridges to keep the outer packaging of the ink cartridges intact. In this way, when the ink cartridge is not in use temporarily, we put it back in the plastic box and seal the opened plastic cover with double-sided tape to ensure that the ink cartridge is isolated from the outside world.

Do not clean the print head frequently

Some models of DTF machines will provide the option of cleaning the print head in the driver software, which can realize operations such as regular cleaning, manual cleaning, or cleaning before printing. Although printing results can be improved after cleaning the print head, cleaning the print head is quite ink-intensive. We can completely set the cleaning print head option to manual cleaning and then perform the cleaning operation manually when the print quality is found to be degraded, which will save precious ink.

In general, DTF printer maintenance should be based on prevention! No matter what kind of printer it is, we only need to keep the environment and the printer clean. And try to reduce the number of times the front cover is opened, and pay attention to speed up the replacement of ink cartridges/toners. The purpose of "maintenance-free" can be achieved. In addition, cleaning the inside of the powder shaking machine is generally enough to perform once every 2-3 months. After cleaning, a nozzle test should also be performed to see if the printer is functioning properly.

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