Packaging for the Deskjet Printer 5655

Task:

• To minimise handling intensity, by rapidly fixing the packaging to the product while keeping pace with the cycle time assembly line
• optimal cost/performance ratio
• the printers are sensitive to dust and moisture and need to be protected from them

Steps towards problem-solving:

• development of packaging that reaches a specified acceleration limit during vertical shock tests
• comprehensive protection by two EPS half shells
• until assembly both half shells are connected by a predetermined breaking point
• this prevents any confusion between the right and left halves of the EPS shell

Usefulness of the solution:

• recesses in the packaging accomodate printing cartridges
• the use of the EPS half shells means that the assembly line can be highly automated
• EPS is 100% recyclable
• easy to stack
• reduces freight costs