{"id":11728,"date":"2015-07-17T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T13:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:23:39","slug":"clean-start-ribbons-for-easy-printhead-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/clean-start-ribbons-for-easy-printhead-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Start Ribbons for Easy Printhead Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  style=\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.barcodesinc.com\/images\/models\/lg\/BCI\/iimak-cleanstart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"213\" align=\"right\" \/>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/cats\/thermal-printheads\/\">printer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s printhead<\/a> may be the most critical component to ensuring crisp, consistent and readable barcodes. Many times the reason prints are not sharp is due to a dirty printhead. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/\">BarcodesInc<\/a> has partnered with IIMAK to provide ribbon with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/search.htm?search=cleanstart\">Clean Start<\/a>. Ribbon including Clean Start allows the user to clean their printhead every time ribbon is changed.\u00c2\u00a0 Cleaning the printhead on a regular cadence increases the longevity of the printhead.<\/p>\n<p>Clean Start provides hassle free printhead cleaning with 3 simple steps and only takes 6 seconds.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Load the Clean Start Clean Start is built right into most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/bci\/ribbons.htm\">BCI thermal transfer ribbons<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Lock the printhead<\/li>\n<li>Pull Clean Start<\/li>\n<li>Your printer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s printhead has just been cleaned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When using Clean Start, unnecessary interruptions caused by printhead failures, can be avoided. This results in less money and time being spent replacing printheads.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/support\/contactinfo.htm\">Contact your knowledgeable BarcodesInc Account Manager<\/a> for a FREE SAMPLE, of ribbon with Clean Start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A printer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s printhead may be the most critical component to ensuring crisp, consistent and readable barcodes. Many times the reason prints are not sharp is due to a dirty printhead. BarcodesInc has partnered with IIMAK to provide ribbon with Clean Start. 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