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February 2020 Newsletter – GDPR

February 2020 Newsletter – GDPR Introduction.. Addressing Compliance Enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) began in May of 2018. It was with the intention to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European...

January 2020 Newsletter – Windows 7 Support Expires

January 2020 Newsletter – Windows 7 Support Expires The End of an Era: Windows 7 Support Expires It’s been ten years since the first release of Microsoft’s Windows 7. Now as the decade comes to a close, so does support for this popular operating system. For...

December 2019 Newsletter – Happy Holidays!

December 2019 Newsletter – Happy Holidays! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE TEAMAT GRAPHIC IMAGING SERVICES, INC. Happy Holidays! Another year has passed, and we’re so glad to have been part of the community. We’ve been busy servicing the greater Las Vegas area and branching...

November 2019 Newsletter – Book Scanning

November 2019 Newsletter – Book Scanning Getting Smart with Book Scanning Scanning Book scanning can be difficult whether you’re scanning a textbook, a pamphlet book, or trying to capture an illustration. It’s a difficulty we’ve all faced at one time or another,...

June 2019 Newsletter – Summer Break

June 2019 Newsletter – Summer Break Newsletter? How about a summer break? Another exciting newsletter edition of Graphic… Oh, we didn’t have a newsletter this month. The fiscal year end had us too busy to think, let alone write an exciting blog. But have no fear, the...

May 2019 Newsletter – Preserving Family History

May 2019 Newsletter – Preserving Family History Before the time of digital cameras, selfie sticks and Snapchat, there was the old fashioned way of doing things. Wind-up Kodak cameras you would take to the drug store to get developed, using a Polaroid camera....

April 2019 Newsletter – Tax Season

April 2019 Newsletter – Tax Season It’s that time of year again! Since you have to take care of taxes, now is the perfect time to finally get your tax documentation in order. Effective tax document retention and record keeping can save you tons of headaches down...

March 2019 Newsletter – GDPR

March 2019 Newsletter – GDPR Does GDPR Apply To Me? How About The California Consumer Privacy Act? The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is already in place and being utilized throughout the business world. Approved in April 2016, the GDPR gives consumers...

February 2019 Newsletter – Going Paperless

February 2019 Newsletter – Going Paperless The Paperless Office It’s a Journey, Not a Destination So often, we find ourselves swimming in paper – not by choice but because that’s the way we’ve always done it. As budgets and time allow, we take a shot at “go...

January 2019 Newsletter – Document Management

January 2019 Newsletter – Document Management Document Management – A Walk in the Park Document management services and solutions apply to more areas than business and more people than lawyers and doctors. Personal projects and collections of meaningful...

November 2018 Newsletter – Legal Records

November 2018 Newsletter – Legal Records Managing Case Files Effectively In law firms, both small and large case files can easily build up to storage rooms full of paper.  Compliance laws regarding these records require retention of this information on file by law...

October 2018 Newsletter – Data Retention

October 2018 Newsletter – Data Retention Retention Policies And Why Your Company Needs One A data retention policy defines the practice of persisting data and records management to meet legal requirements. In many industries, severe civil, criminal, federal and...

September 2018 Newsletter – Document Preparation

September 2018 Newsletter – Document Preparation Archiving Preparation Tips and Tricks The process of preparing documents for digital storage can have a serious impact on your budget. You can reduce this overhead by addressing preparation yourself with these...

May 2018 Newsletter – Daily Duty Cycle

May 2018 Newsletter – Daily Duty Cycle When looking to purchase a new document scanner, there are several specifications to compare between different Manufacturers and Models. A lot of these specifications are pretty easy to understand. While a few of them may...

April 2018 Newsletter – Tax Records

April 2018 Newsletter – Tax Records Don’t Throw Away These Tax Records This article was originally published in the Kiplinger By Kimberly Lankford, Contributing EditorApril 4, 2017 After you file this year’s tax return, these are the old documents you should...

March 2018 Newsletter – Meaningful Use Program

March 2018 Newsletter – Meaningful Use Program In 2011, the U.S. government introduced the Meaningful Use program relating to the digitizing of Medical Records.  This was an incentive based program to get your historical medical records digital and into an...

February 2018 Newsletter – To Scan or Not Scan

February 2018 Newsletter – To Scan or Not Scan For over 25 years, I have been an advocate of “scan it all”.  It is my experience that once you have captured it, you can apply retention policies and dispose of records based on those requirements verses culling...