Too many businesses including printing is affected greatly due to the current situation with coronavirus.If your business uses a large format printer, we are pleased to provide some tips to help you maintain it during this time.

Think of your printer in the same way as you would your car. If you want it to work in the best way possible and stay in the best condition, you need to service it regularly and ensure maintenance is carried out to avoid breakdowns. The same applies when it comes to printing. Large format printers often run hundreds of cycles, so you need to treat them with the care they deserve.

l Firstly, it’s important to run a manual clean on each piece of equipment. This will ensure when you resume normal business, everything will be clean and ready to go.

l Check your ink cartridges and bottles to ensure there is plenty of ink available. A lot of printers will initiate an automatic maintenance cycle if it has been a while since it last printed anything.

l Make sure to empty the waste tank on your printer. This will ensure when you come back to printing, there won’t be too much waste ink flooding the caps.

l Do not simply unplug the machine to shut it down. You need to power down your printer using the machine itself to ensure it engages any capping mechanisms to prevent your cartridges from drying-out and often printers will carry out an auto clean at this stage too.

We are seeing little disruption to our daily operations at the moment. We are still available to support our customers during this time for deliveries, installations and to provide answers to your questions.

Here at MT Refretonic, we have a range of large format printers available for you no matter the scale of your business. Get in touch now to speak to our team of experts about your requirements to choose the right printing solutions!