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Security Alert: Your Copier or Multifunction Printer May Be Storing Your Confidential Data

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Most copiers and larger multifunction printers (MFPs) made after 2002 have hard drives that store images of all documents that are scanned, copied, faxed, emailed and printed on them. It’s not a particularly hot topic at the electronics recycling conferences I go to, although recyclers do handle copiers. End of Life Precautions.

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Our Much Improved Tech Support In TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative

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The RCI program also has a free end-of-life takeback program , in which anyone with an RCI computer can call and get free shipping when the PC is ready for recycling. In 2002, Jim Lynch of TechSoup (yours truly) and Willie Cade, the founder of PCRR, started the International Computer Refurbisher Summit.