For hard-to-reach places like inside drives, and in recesses of printers, Tech Essentials has multi-purpose, pre-moistened, lint-free, dual-tipped swabs (#77-612).

While anyone who’s ever changed a cartridge knows it’s effect on clothing, laser toner dust buildup is also a destructive element on printers. A Toner Wipe (#66-740) with special toner-grabbing fibres will pick up toner residue.

Laser printer/copier/laser fax cleaning paper (#32-125) is placed on top of a paper input tray and fed through your copier, fax, or printer a few times after changing a toner cartridge, or after a large number of copies have been printed.

When was last time you wiped down that mousepad? Was it after you munched entire bag of chips while waiting for your email client to download that giant South Park animation your friend sent?

Instead of smearing your finger juice all over your monitor screen, try View Control (#50-010). It’s a pre-moistened wipe with anti-static properties for cleaning sensitive surfaces. It smells clean, too.

If it’s not your monitor that’s dirty, try U.C. Clear (#10-010) on your glasses. It’s also for cleaning copier, scanner, and microfiche glass, camera, telescope, and microscope lenses, and tape heads.

Wet and Dry PowerBook Glare Filter Wipes (#50-424) are for use on sensitive coatings, soft screens, and anti-glare surfaces.

A large part of Tech Essentials business involves supplying pre-moistened, lint-free cards (#95-050) for cleaning credit card readers in optical and magnetic stripe equipment.

Many items of Tech Essentials line are purchased in bulk with an organization logo printed on, then given away as promotional items that are actually useful.

Clean computers and peripherals last longer and perform better. As Captain Planna says: "A clean machine produces clean results."

[Set out constraints] It is not advisable to encourage creativity through out your organization without stipulating constraints. The constraints can be in form of finance, time-span and effects to operational flow. You do not want to create a ‘renaissance” workplace and then put a dampener on team-building by insisting that these ideas are not workable.

[Which department was affected?] Quite often, every well-meaning creative idea will translate into extra work for other departments. It is idealistic to expect your employees to accept changes from other “creative” department. Thus it is more prudent to encourage creative team to spare a thought for other departments. It will also be good practise for them to inform affected departments of changes after getting go-ahead from top management.

[Is there a shelf life for this idea?] Many creative teams do not factor in a dynamic environment where change is only certainty. By enquiring about potential shelf life of a creative idea, team members will also contemplate about respect and protection of organisation’s intellectual property.

[Which other organization may benefit from this?] Some creative ideas may not be appropriate to implement but can be used as potential solutions for other organizations in industry. With this in mind, we always encourage every organization to have a knowledge bank which can house these ideas and also serve as a pension for long-serving enterprising employees.

[Team Presentation] The importance of presenting ideas cannot be overstated; it encourages team to be proud of its efforts and gives rest of organization an opportunity to ask for clarification.