Printhead maintenance made easier

Custom-designed for Linx printers, the Printhead Wash Station enables easy, effective printhead maintenance, which ensures reliable printing and less downtime on the production line.

Linx Printing Technologies has added the new Linx Printhead Wash Station to its comprehensive accessories range.

Custom-designed for Linx printers, the Printhead Wash Station enables easy, effective printhead maintenance, which ensures reliable printing and less downtime on the production line.

Linx CIJ printers have an in-built autoflush printhead system and automatic power down to enable mess-free and trouble-free starts and stops.

In order to ensure optimum functionality and reliability, CIJ printheads should be cleaned periodically - typically only once a month.

The new Linx Printhead Wash station makes this process easier, and effectively cleans the printhead to maximise uptime on the production line.

Small and discreet, the Linx Printhead Wash Station can be secured to a Linx printhead mounting pole, or other vertical structures, close to the printer.

It has grooves to accommodate different printhead positions and an enclosed design significantly reduces the possibility of spray or leakage onto the operator or production line.

An added advantage is the way that an empty bottle can be used to enable effective collection of waste ink and solvent for safe disposal.

Kate O'Mahony, Inks and Accessories product executive at Linx, said: "Excellent value for money, the Linx Printhead Wash Station is compact, has flexible mounting options and is enclosed to prevent splashes of ink and solvent".

"As with other Linx products and accessories, it is also robust and easy to use".

"Proper printhead cleaning improves printer reliability, reduces production line downtime and printer maintenance thus ensuring low cost of ownership - key for customers wanting to stay ahead of the competition." Linx offers best of class continuous ink jet printers, laser coders and impulse jet outer case coders.

To support this commitment to quality the company provides a range of robust and reliable accessories.

Each accessory has been designed to integrate easily into the working production line environment and to cater for the wide range of coding needs likely to be encountered by Linx printers and coders.

The Linx accessories range includes: * Mountings for printers, coders and printheads - Linx offers a wide variety of mounting accessories for positioning printers and printheads on production lines, all of which have been rigorously tested for robustness, ease of use and versatility * Alarm beacons - visual alarms to draw attention to printer warning messages and fault conditions in a noisy and busy production environment * Shaft encoders - a device that compensates automatically for the variability of intermittent stop-starts/ variable speeds that typify production lines.

Shaft encoders ensure consistently high print quality and correct print position on the products * Product sensors - simple and reliable devices that can be used to correctly and consistently trigger the on-line printers to print a high quality message in the right place at the right time.

This is essential in minimising rejection of products due to poorly placed or partly missing codes * Interfacing and software accessory products - these products provide remote printer control by PCs and PLCs and enable rapid development of end-user applications.

* About Linx Printing Technologies - Linx Printing Technologies is a leading global supplier of Continuous Ink Jet (CIJ) printers, impulse jet printers and laser coders.

Its printers and coders are used across many different industries where product identification codes, batch numbers, dates and barcodes are required.

All Linx products are designed with low cost of ownership in mind and are distinguished by reliability, robustness and ease of use.

Linx products code and mark millions of items every day, ranging from bottles, packages and cans of consumer goods to pharmaceutical products, cabling, electrical components and car parts.

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