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Benefits of using card reader cleaning cards

December 20, 2011 by Stephen Enfield — CEO, POS Supply

As a follow-up to my blog post on Why your kiosk transactions are failing, I want to talk in more detail about card reader cleaning cards and how they will help to keep your kiosk running smoothly. When used as a scheduled maintenance product, card reader cleaning cards can help prevent reader failures. They can also be used as an emergency maintenance product after card reader failures.

Card reader cleaning cards are inserted like any credit card and are designed to remove dirt, magnetic oxides, oils, lotions and other contaminants from concealed magnetic, photo and optic sensors. They quickly and easily remove contaminates that cause errors during transaction.

With the introduction of Waffletechnology cleaning cards, card reader cleaning cards are even more effective than before. The concept behind Waffletechnology is very simple: achieve complete access to critical components within the equipment. Because optical lenses are rounded and most sensors are recessed, access cannot be achieved through the use of flat cleaning cards. The solution is very simple: design a card that is not flat.

Waffletechnology cleaning cards incorporate flexible, raised platforms on their top and bottom surfaces. These cleaning platforms are essentially spring-loaded, significantly increasing the pressure applied to the internal components as the card passes through the mechanism. Not only is cleaning pressure increased, but the platforms actually spring up into surface cavities to clean recessed sensors. Additionally, the leading and trailing surfaces of rounded optical lenses are effectively cleaned. Flat cards do not touch recessed sensors and, at best, only come into contact with the convex tip of a rounded optical lens. As the card is accepted into the mechanism and as it is dispensed by the mechanism, it is cleaning all surfaces.

In order to keep your kiosk running smoothly, cleaning your kiosk should be part of a preventative maintenance plan. Card reader cleaning cards prolong equipment life and reduce capital expenditures, reduce maintenance fees, reduce equipment downtime, reduce fees from erroneous transactions and increase customer loyalty with fast efficient transactions.

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