Month: January 2018

Okay, so we have a lot of clients with different printing requirements and questions. And we always go to the utmost level when a customer has a specific question regarding one of our Xerox Printers.

Recently, a customer had a specific requirement to print Tyvek Wristbands at higher speeds then they were currently achieving. You see, this customer was using a HP Ink Jet to print Tyvek Wristbands. This is a very slow process and requires a person to manually feed the printer one piece of paper at a time. – Hence this takes TIME.

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With this being said, we need a solution for printing on Tyvek Wristbands.

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First, We attempted to print on Tyvek Wristbands with a Xerox Altalink C8070 . This falsely appeared to work because when you print a single page of the Tyvek Wristband, it appears to work. The customer did not need a multifunction device to print Tyvek Wristbands because they were never going to copy, just print.

Second, we attempted to print on the Xerox Phaser 7800. Again, single page worked fine. Printing two pages, worked fine. Trying to print three pages in a row….caused the printer to jam while printing on Tyvek. Once it jammed, the Tyvek melted onto the fuser, destorying it.

Even after cleaning the fuser assembly, rollers, and other internal pieces thorougly, the Xerox Phaser 7800 was continously throwing error codes of a jam….that didn’t actually exist.

Pushing aside the Phaser 7800 for failing to print on Tyvek Wristbands, we still needed a solution. All the specifications on Tyvek say it can’t get above a certain temperature and has to be carefully handled.

Finally, we then decided to try the Xerox ColorQube 8580 for printing on Tyvek Wristbands. The Xerox ColorQube has a much lower fusing point, because the wax actually softens and then adheres to the paper. SUCCESS! The ColorQube worked perfectly and passed all the tests. The Tyvek Wristbands did not melt going through the fuser.

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