Chapter 6  Maintenance 
6.2.13 Preparing to Ship   
If this analyzer is not to be used for over two weeks, or is to be shipped, perform 
the Prepare to ship procedure to flush and drain it.     
 
Follow the steps given below to do so: 
   Remove the diluent, rinse and lyse tubing from their containers. 
  At the Maintenance screen, press the appropriate arrow keys ([↑][↓][←][→]) 
to move the cursor to Prepare to ship. 
   Press [ENTER] and a dialog box will pop up to ask you to confirm this operation, 
as Figure 6-15 shows 
 
 
Figure 6-15 A dialog box of Prepare to ship 
 
  Move the cursor to Yes and press [ENTER] if you want to proceed with this 
procedure, or to No and press [ENTER] if you wan to abort this operation. If 
there is any error present, the system will not perform this procedure. Follow the 
instructions displayed on the screen to remove the error before trying to perform 
the procedure again.   
   After draining the tubing, follow the instructions displayed on the screen to put 
the rinse, diluent and lyse tubing into distilled water and press [ENTER] to flush 
this analyzer with the distilled water.     
  When the washing is over, follow the instructions displayed on the screen to 
remove the rinse, diluent and lyse tubing from the distilled water and press 
[ENTER] to drain the tubing again.     
   Turn off the analyzer when the screen displays Turn off the analyzer.     
   Wipe this analyzer dry and wrap it up for storage. 
 
 
 
   BC-2800 Auto Hematology Analyzer (V1.0)                        6-16