#MY CARDPRESSO STOPPED WORKING HOW TO#

The ribbons used to print on a card are only about one quarter of an inch wider than the card itself, they are thin and once they lose their dye, all you have left is a translucent polyester sheet. They struggle when you want to print all the way up to the edge or fill the entire card with a print. What do I mean by too much surface area? Generally card printers are really good at partially covering the surface of a card with printing. You have too much surface area of the card covered in printing. (Random: My favorite color card stock right now is tan.) It will look smooth and flat 100% of the time, break fewer ribbons and allow the back of the card to perfectly match the front. If you MUST have a flat design I suggest printing on color card stock. The current 'flat' design trend is however resulting in a lot of card designs with large areas of flat uninterrupted color. As a designer I avoid this problem by not designing cards with large areas of flat uninterrupted color that go all the way to the edge of the card, even a subtle gradient can make printing a card without errors much more likely.

#MY CARDPRESSO STOPPED WORKING HOW TO#

See how to configure that down below under KPower.

The only method to troubleshoot this is to adjust the Printer Configuration settings. If the design covers from edge to edge and has large areas of flat color then it will likely have some difficulty printing. If you are printing in CMYKO, CMYK, CMYO than this may be caused by the card design. The longer a card is out and the more it is handled the less likely it will print without a flaw. Keep blank cards in their packaging or stored in a Ziploc bag or other airtight container to prevent dust from coating them. Always handle cards from the edge to avoid getting fingerprints on the surface of the cards as it impacts printing performance. Somebody probably touched the card with their greasy filthy fingers! The most common reason for this is a flawed card surface. Random areas on the card are printing with a flaw inconsistently. Sometimes there are problems you don't see until you are sending 1000 cards through the printer. If you want to switch brands to save money or for some other reason always order a backup of your original brand just in case the new stock is inferior. I've had good luck with HID for white 30mm and Bristol for keychains. I find that sticking to the same card stock brand each time prevents these irritating problems. In all of these unfortunate cases you have to reorder card stock. Another issue could be grease or fingerprints on the plastic cards.

For example, in keychain cards sometimes there will be a sharp burr of plastic that nicks the ribbon leaving a short white slice in what should usually be solid printing. In some cases there is a problem with the card printing material itself. You may think you installed the ribbon securely but double check or you might get something like the image below. While this doesn't seem like it should work, it often changes the tension enough to fix the error.Īlong similar lines to the tension problem is a tension problem caused by the ribbon not being lock all the way in on the spool. What improved the problem was going into my advanced printer settings and flipping the card 180°. In one recent case I had half of a card order turn out flawed due to a tension problem. This is often a matter of the tension on the ribbon. One isolated area on a card is consistently printing with a flaw. I'll try to beat the printer and finish this blog post before it stops! I'm printing an order of 300 cards, two color red and black on white card stock.

Common Datacard SD360 Card Printer Issues

My cardpresso stopped working