Jul 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletters
July 2019 Newsletter – Information Governance and Retention Management Information Governance and Retention Management We live in an era of exploding information. Every organization today, regardless of size or sector of business must strike a balance between the...
Jun 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletters
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 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletters
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....
Apr 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Mar 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Feb 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Jan 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Nov 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Oct 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Sep 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletters
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 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Apr 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Mar 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Feb 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletters
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...
Dec 1, 2017 | Blog, Newsletters
December 2017 Newsletter – Going Paperless In my life, the key to success was always equal to how organized I have become. While in college, I could not start homework or projects if my room was even slightly messy. This led to many nights in the library, coffee...
Nov 1, 2017 | Blog, Newsletters
November 2017 Newsletter – Are You Ready For An Emergency? In the last three months, we have seen an unusually large number of natural disasters around the world. Wild fires, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes are a few plights we are plagued with. How do you...
Oct 31, 2017 | Blog
Converting TIF to Vector Files We had the privilege of working with Morning Cloudshine today. These are not drawings as some would assume but rather intricate cut-outs. We scanned the drawings on our flatbed scanner so that they could be converted into vector files....
Sep 1, 2017 | Blog, Email Campaign
September 2017 Newsletter – Celebrating 20 Years In 2004, Graphic Imaging Services was awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Interior. The Project was to scan historical engineering records at the Hoover Dam. These dated back to 1909, before Hoover Dam...
Aug 9, 2017 | Blog, Events
Lunch and Learn – August 08, 2017 Great success at our Lunch and Learn yesterday! Thank you to everyone that came out to show their interest in an organized and paper-free work environment. For further questions, or if you would like to sign up for future...
Aug 3, 2017 | Blog
Photo Restoration Photos deteriorate over time and at Graphic Imaging Services we provide photo restoration so that we can preserve your memories. Recently a client came in with little hope that her photo could be fixed. She wanted to present it to her husband on his...
