“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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Toshiba America Business Solution’s latest line of e-STUDIO color multifunction products (MFP) are being honored by three independent consulting firms.

The e-STUDIO series is a line of mid- to high-speed color copiers, developed for multi-user offices and mid-volume printing environments that desire high-quality color printing at speeds of 23, 28, 35 and 45 pages-per-minute, respectively.

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An old copy machine at the Homer City borough office has turned out to be rather expensive.

The machine, which is no longer the borough's main copier, will cost $3,300 to purchase after a settlement was reached with a leasing company that never came to get the copier after the lease expired.

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With banks turning off the spigots, Hewlett-Packard Co. is getting used to playing a bigger role as financier to smaller tech companies scrambling for cash to buy its products.

As the turmoil in the capital markets continues and the uncertainty of recession looms, a growing number of technology titans are finding their own internal leasing and financing programs are in hot demand.

"We're one of only a couple of players in the industry that actually owns and writes our own paper," said Geoff Kereluik, vice-president of marketing for HP Canada Co. "That gives us a tremendous amount of latitude in terms of how much risk we ultimately want to take on. ... We expect that there will be a greater uptake in our various leasing offerings."

But for every company like HP that finds itself in the enviable position of having both cash on hand and the ability to offer vendor financing, there are many others that wish they were in a position to take advantage of the opportunities being presented by the tight credit markets.

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Xerox Corp. put out its first fully-automatic, plain-paper copier, the Xerox 914, in 1960.

And for the Emmy Award-winning AMC series Mad Men, about the Madison Avenue advertising world in the 1960s, the company released another one, lending one of the old machines to the production company behind the show.

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In recent months there has been a much talked about change in the economic climate. Data from the photocopier industry can be useful for investigating which industries have been affected b­y looking at which businesses are making more photocopier enquiries and which are making less, it can indicate the businesses that seem to be expanding a­nd doing wel­l and the industries that seem to have been affected negatively.

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The administration of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and the Detroit City Council gave a $10 million photocopier contract to a former Democratic state House colleague of Kilpatrick's who is not authorized to sell or service the copiers involved, city records and interviews show.

Today, Councilman Kwame Kenyatta will ask Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. and the City Council to rescind the contract awarded last June to Olive Delivery Service LLC, owned by former state Rep. Ken Daniels, D-Detroit.

"We've got a lot of cleaning up to do," after the resignation of Kilpatrick following his guilty plea to felony obstruction of justice charges, Kenyatta said in an interview Wednesday.

"This was a bogus contract from the very beginning, to help your friends out."

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The Middlesex County register of probate has been suspended from his position after he was allegedly caught stealing thousands of dollars from copy and cash machines.

John Buonomo, 56, was videotaped by state police going to the cash machine inside the office of deeds, opening a box with a key he was not supposed to have and taking out cash, prosecutors said.

Officials said that it happened 18 times during a three-month period. Witnesses said that Buonomo came in on days he was not working.

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An office supplies dealer has been charged with using bogus copier leases to scam area businesses and nonprofits.

Scott Arthur Waddell, 49, of 8012 Llewellyn Court in Raleigh, was charged with eight counts each of forgery and obtaining property by false pretense. He was being held Wednesday in the Wake County Jail under a $1.25 million bond.

Waddell ran two companies, Modern Office Solutions and PST Consultants, and sold copy machines and other office supplies to businesses for years.

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Japan's Canon Inc posted a 12 percent fall in quarterly profit on Thursday, hit by weaker monochrome copier demand and a firm yen versus the dollar, but the camera and office equipment maker kept its full-year outlook that exceeds market expectations.

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Attorney Gen. Troy King announced that an Auburn man has been convicted and will pay a total of approximately $94,000 in restitution for thefts committed in a scheme to steal copy machines from victims throughout Alabama.

Stanley Boone, 45, of Auburn pleaded guilty in the Circuit Courts of Chambers and Randolph counties, and pleaded guilty on April 17 in Montgomery County Circuit Court. Victims include a church, a funeral home and a trucking company.

"This defendant admits that he engaged in a pattern of alleged thefts across our state from victims that include churches, a funeral home and a trucking company, and now will return the money that was stolen from them," said King.

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Colouring the company green is nothing new for printer and copier-maker Fuji Xerox.

Last year, the company was accredited to use the Ecolabelling Trust environmental tick on some of its products. But Fuji Xerox New Zealand managing director Neil Whittaker says the company was conscious of environmental issues long before that.

"Fuji Xerox has always been concerned with environmental sustainability and now we are taking it a step further to obtain credits which illustrates our commitment to the environment," Whittaker says.

The environmental tick is a voluntary labelling programme initiated by the Government, recognising steps manufacturers have taken to reduce the environmental impact of their products.

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Attorney General Troy King said an Auburn man will pay about $94,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to stealing copy machines from places that included a church, a funeral home and a trucking company.

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A malfunctioning copy machine was the cause of a fire that damaged Long's Chapel Christian Church on N.C. 49 late Monday.

Alamance County Fire Marshal J.B. Brown spent part of Tuesday investigating the blaze that was confined to the office area in the church. The sanctuary and other areas of Long's Chapel were damaged by smoke.

"Once we got in and suppressed the fire, we could see it originated where the copier is," Brown said.

The copier's sorting mechanism malfunctioned, igniting the fire, he said.

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An Auburn man has been indicted on charges of plotting to steal copy machines in three Alabama counties.

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Anchorage city clerk Barbara Gruenstein is keeping score.

Copy machine: 1. Mice: 0.

That's the tally after a repairman recently found chewed wires and rodent droppings when fixing the Anchorage Assembly's copy machine on the ground floor of the Loussac Library.

The machine -- used to print copies of proposed laws, amendments and memos for city leaders -- had been sluggish for some non-mouse-related reason. It sits in a tiny room hidden from the public, just outside the Assembly chambers.

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