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On Thursday 26 June 2008 17:00:25 Troy Murray wrote: > Our department needs to put some type of PERMANENT identification on > equipment like laptops, desktops and barcode printers and barcode > readers. Just curious what others are using to do things like this. > > Thanks, If you need really permanent markings, you should label things with something like a Sharpie *inside* the unit. Anything you put on the outside can be removed. I saw a Dell laptop which had ID scratched on it with one of those identification pens that vibrate, which was all but invisible; somehow the thieves put something on the plastic, smoothing it out. If you knew where the marking was you could still see it, but I didn't see it till I was told where it was. So marking inside the unit or along the battery compartment or something like that is good. Also, for the truly concerned, video tape the process such that you can prove which laptop or whatever is being marked at the time. I know one admin who makes scratches on the bottom of laptops when he first gets them and makes pictures, as a further form of ID. --STeve Andre'