“We are required to notify you of a security breach in which your name, address, social security number, date of birth and medical history may have been released.”

How would you like to send this notice to your 450,000 customers, the state’s consumer protection agency and your shareholders?

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It may be the most iconic piece of office equipment of the past half-century.

It has saved workers countless hours, spit out forests worth of documents, been cursed by anyone who's faced a paper jam on deadline and been used by office pranksters to copy body parts.

It's been immortalized in pop culture by Rob Schneider's "Saturday Night Live" skits -- "Ran-dyyy! The Rand-man! Randatollah! Making copies!" -- and by the secretaries of "Mad Men," who greet the 1962 arrival of the exotic new machine like a curiosity from another planet.

It's that aging plow horse of the workplace -- the much-used, much-maligned office copier, and it's 50 years old.

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A former office supplies dealer pleaded guilty Wednesday to using bogus copier leases to scam area businesses and nonprofits.

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The company plans to introduce three series, 12 models in all, under the imageRunner Advance brand. The monthly production target for the entire line is 12,000 units. The copiers are to debut in Japan first before being sold globally.

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Never thought I'd see the day when I would be wiping my rear with used copier paper straight from an office machine. Butt seriously, thanks to Japanese ingenuity, this could soon be smart waste management, employed in corporate buildings to recycle all that paper we're guilty of overusing into toilet paper.

There's just one wee catch. Nakabayashi's pricey $95,000 office machine requires a whopping 72kg of discarded paper (159 pounds, or about 1,800 A4 sheets) to churn into just two rolls of (hopefully pliable) loo paper. At least you can now say you've cleaned your behind with your boss' memo.

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, DCA North Carolina education department order that halted district spending had some Charlotte-area educators concerned that they would not be allowed to use copy machines, which are leased by the district for about a penny per page.

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In the annual Gartner U.S. copier market report for 2008, Ricoh Americas Corporation holds the number one spot for a second straight year in the combined black and white and color copier segment with a 21.4 percent market share. Ricoh leads the pack for the sixth consecutive year with a 22.2 percent stake in the individual color copier market. In the black and white copier category specifically, it came in close second with a market share of 21.1 percent. These percentages are calculated by counting only for copier/MFP models that are sold through dealer and direct sales, excluding models sold through the retail channel (Printer, Copier, and MFP Annual Market Share, United States: Database. February 8, 2009).

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Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of digital imaging and office solutions, today announced that the Company is once again ranked first in the overall page copier market in the U.S. for 2008 with 21 percent of the market, according to Gartner’s Printer, Copier and MFP Quarterly Statistics Database for fourth quarter 2008 (February 9, 2009).

“Despite the changing digital copier landscape and difficult economy in 2008, Canon’s award-winning digital copier technology continued to be the brand of choice for small and large enterprises nationwide,” said Ted Nakamura, executive vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Group. “From monochrome to color, Canon remains dedicated to making investments in technology that allows us to deliver value with the most robust array of digital document imaging solutions on the market.”

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British companies selling and leasing Japanese manufactured goods have been forced to up their prices after negative GBP to Euro and Euro to Yen exchange rate trends worsen, forcing­ an ­inc­rea­se in cost prices. ­
­­­­­­­­­­­The GBP to Euro and Euro to Yen exchange rate has been causing serious problems for British companies purchasing Japanese manufactured products over recent months. A large majority of office­ photocopier and multifunctional device brands are manufactured in Japan, including, Ricoh, Fuji Xerox, Sharp, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita, Panasonic, Toshiba and Canon­. Taking Canon as an example, it can be shown how much these exchange rates can affect photocopier costs.

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We’re used to hearing words like “layoffs,“ “down trends,“ and “furloughs” in relation to our current economy, but one Salem business is actually buying more inventory during this recession.

Blue Ridge Copier CEO Paul Story said his company has been buying more copy machines from wholesalers after wobbling businesses have unloaded machines as a result of the recession.

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