Presaturated cleaning products support your preventative maintenance program. Over 80% of printer and reader failures are linked to poor maintenance. The not-so-hidden costs of neglect include lost production, customer dissatisfaction, frequent service calls, and premature equipment replacement. With presaturated cleaning products, it couldn't be easier for busy operators to keep up with their company's
scheduled maintenance program. Our presaturated cleaning cards and products are tested and approved by OEMs, offer reliable performance and consistent quality.
All presaturated cleaning cards are manufactured to precise specifications using approved materials and contain 99.9% isopropyl alcohol.
To see for yourself how KIC Products' cleaning cards can benefit your company, contact KIC for free samples and more information.

Keep Thermal Print heads Clean!
In bar code printers, the main cause of premature print head failure is a buildup of adhesive, label residue and other contaminants. This creates a baked-on coating that heat produced by the dots on the print head cannot penetrate. The trapped heat burns out the dots. With bar code thermal printers, failure of only two dots can render the print head useless.

End user maintenance has a direct and dramatic effect on the productive life of a print head According to a leading thermal printer manufacturer, a maintenance program can decrease print head failures by 80%. In addition to guarding against dot failure, cleaning Print heads on a regular basis helps prevent or eliminate repetitive voids in bar code images.

Cleaning should be convenient for operators and scheduled at consistent intervals (for example, when you change label or ticket stock). KIC Products provides three presaturated products to clean thermal Print heads: the Thermal Printer Cleaning Card, the Thermal Printer Cleaning Pen, and Easy Swab Self-Saturating Swabs. The concept behind presaturated cleaning supplies is simple: the easier it is for operators to clean Print heads, the more likely it is they will do it regularly.

Improve Reader Performance!
Regular use of our presaturated products makes your magnetic stripe equipment last longer and perform better. Passing a magnetic stripe card over a dirty read head damages the card and the head itself. In a dirty manufacturing environment, badges may only last a few hundred transmissions. By improving reader performance, workers on the factory floor can focus on their jobs, rather than data entry. In the retail sector, a major retailer reduced the failure rate of its magnetic stripe readers by 50% with the regular use of cleaning cards. Customers are less likely to experience annoying delays at the point of sale when readers work well.

Double-sided presaturated cleaning cards for magnetic stripe card readers provide a one-pass cleaning solution. These cards are made with compressible fibers for superior cleaning performance. They contain enough cleaning solution to clean magnetic read heads, tracks, and rollers in one pass. The disposable cards ensure contaminants will not be reintroduced into the readers. And since presaturated products are convenient to use, your employees will find it easy to carry out a preventative maintenance program.

As you can see, our presaturated cleaning cards benefit applications ranging from banking to automatic credit/debit card readers at the gas pump. In addition to standard CR80
credit card sizes, CR50 cleaning cards are available. KIC Products also has 10 mils cards for mass transit and parking control applications and special magnetic-encoded cleaning cards for ATMs with entry gates. Using top-quality presaturated cleaning cards saves your company money that would otherwise be spent on premature equipment
repair or replacement.

Prevent Costly Repairs of Dollar Bill Validators!
Most vending machines are equipped with dollar bill readers and/or debit card readers that need preventative maintenance. Over 80% of dollar bill or debit card reader failures are linked to poor maintenance. Contaminants brought into the equipment by dollar bills, debit cards, and environmental conditions damage the read heads, belts, and rollers. The not-so-hidden costs of neglect include currency rejection, lost sales, customer dissatisfaction, frequent service calls, and premature equipment failure.

What can you do to reduce the risk of damage to your equipment? Establish a cleaning program using a product designed specifically for your machinery. Cleaning should be convenient for operators and scheduled at consistent intervals, for example, when you service your equipment. This does not replace the scheduled service checkups that equipment needs, but it will greatly reduce unexpected and unproductive downtime.

The WonderCard™, KIC Products' newly developed dollar bill reader cleaning card, is now available. This universal cleaning card works on ALL dollar bill readers, including but not limited to, Ardac, Coinco, CBV's, Mars, and Rowe units. Not only does the WonderCard™ work on all readers, its price can't be beat. So keep the money flowing through your equipment while saving money to keep it clean.

The presaturated magnetic stripe reader cleaning card is specially designed for toll and transit systems, the vending industry, and institutional use. The double-sided cleaning card cleans the read head AND the entire track of a magnetic stripe reader in one simple pass.

Both of these cards make it easy to follow a regular maintenance schedule. You will increase profits, extend the life of your equipment, and ensure optimal performance.