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Tips to smartly pack your Computer
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Tips to smartly pack your Computer
Computer Packaging is a very important aspect to be kept in mind before shipping or moving your computer. A good packing ensures better safety of Computer during shipment.
There are two ways either you hire packers to pack your computer or you do it yourself. For former option all you need to do is to choose the nearest best packers and pay them for their packing services. But for latter option you will have to work according to the following detailed procedure.
List of the Materials required for Computer Packing
1. Packaging Tape
2. Packing Peanuts
3. The original carton and foam forms, in which you got your newly purchased computer. If you do not have that then you need Packaging Foam Structures and two sets of packing boxes, one bigger than the other, for double-boxing components. Make sure to check the weight capacity of the boxes, usually printed on the bottom, as it should not exceed your computer and accessories' weight.
4. Plastic bags
A step-by step procedure to pack your Computer
1. Switch on the computer and back up all the important files and programs on your computer. Also remove all floppy diskettes, cd-roms, etc. and in case, you have an older computer with hard disk head parking utilities then you will also have to park the hard disk drive.
2. Store these back up disks in a safe container, where they do not come in contact with magnet or moisture. You can store them with your original program disks, so that they are easily accessible.
3. Shut down the computer.
4. Unplug all the power cables and do coding on the computer devices as well as on the cables, so that it is easy for you to reconnect your computer after it is moved to the new destination. You can either color code the computer cables with their respective holes or write the name of the device to which the cable was attached on a piece of the masking tape and stick it to their respective unplugged cable.
5. Bundle the computer cables and wires, making sure that they are not over stressed to pack.
6. Put the computer's input and output devices in plastic bags in order to save them from dust during the moving process.
7. Individual packaging care is required to be taken to pack your computer, monitor, printer and other peripheral devices:
- CPU should be packed vertical and safeguarded by shock resistant insulation.
- Monitor should be packed in a more protected manner as its screen is made of glass and is easily cracked or scratched on contact.
- For Printer first, disconnect the printer, park the print head and remove cartridges. Then pack the plastic bagged printer with shock resistant insulation.
8. Place all the computer components into their respective original boxes. If you do not have those boxes then apply double-boxing technique by taking a smaller box and filling it with packaging peanuts and putting CPU in the middle. Apply the same method to pack other computer components and try to make as much less boxes as possible. After packing the computer components in smaller boxes seal them with packaging tape and place these boxes into larger box filled with packaging peanuts. Make sure to fill empty space with packaging peanuts. You can adjust cables and other small accessories in the sides of each box and fill with peanuts.
9. Seal the larger box and mark it "Handle with Care. Computer Inside."
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